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Los Angeles police hand out body cameras to first patrol division

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department handed out body cameras to its first patrol division on Monday, putting hundreds of the devices on the streets of the nation’s second-largest city in a roll-out of technology seen by proponents as key to building trust in law enforcement.

A child learned how to speak, thanks to ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’

Last year, at the age of 3, Sawyer Dunlap could say only a few words. He was diagnosed with dyspraxia, a neurological disorder that often affects speech and can impair motor skills, memory and other cognitive abilities for life.

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Four vehicles shot on I-10 in Phoenix over weekend

Somebody has shot four moving vehicles on I-10 in Phoenix in the last three days, Arizona Department of Public Safety Director Frank Milstead said Monday.

 
Bartender finds $20 bill, plays lottery, wins $1 million

A Bay Area man who found a $20 bill on a street outside San Francisco International Airport used it to play the California lottery and won $1 million, a lottery spokesman said Monday.

Answers in the MH370 investigation are scarce

Investigators may have hit a dead end in their quest to say with certainty whether a piece of airplane debris found in the Indian Ocean comes from a Malaysian passenger jet that disappeared mysteriously in 2014.

 
University of Texas removes statue of Confederate president

The statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis was moved from its prominent place on the University of Texas campus in Austin on Sunday, according to footage published on social media and by local Austin American-Statesman newspaper.

A group of Texans want the state to secede from the U.S.

A group called the Texas Nationalist Movement fanned out to 31 cities across Texas this weekend trying to gather the 75,000 signatures they say they need to get the question of the state’s secession from the United States on the primary ballot next spring.

 
Hundreds of Mideast refugees arrive in Austria, head to Germany

Trains carrying hundreds of migrants started arriving in Vienna on Monday after Austrian authorities appeared to give up trying to apply European Union rules by filtering out refugees who had already claimed asylum in Hungary.

 
Shooter emptied ‘entire pistol’ on Deputy Darren Goforth

The deputy never saw the man who walked up behind him and shot him in the head before unloading an entire 14-round magazine into his body, a Harris County, Texas, prosecutor said Monday.

Sex traffickers use tattoo brands to mark girls as property — VIDEO

Adriana had her pimp’s name tattooed on her chest at 14 years old. “It lets other pimps know that this is their property,” said Vice Sgt. Ron Fisher of the Los Angeles Police Department in Van Nuys. Police and anti-trafficking advocates are seeing those brands on girls more and more in recent years.

Ancient Syrian temple columns still standing despite ISIS explosion

The iconic columns of a temple with historic significance in Palmyra, Syria, are still standing despite an explosion there Sunday, the antiquities chief in Syria, Maamoun Abdulkarim, said Monday.

Motivational speaker Wayne Dyer dies at 75

Wayne Dyer, the prolific self-help guru and motivational speaker, has died, Dyer’s family has announced on Facebook. Dyer, who announced in 2009 he had been diagnosed with lymphocytic leukemia, was 75.

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