Five arrests were made in north Mali on Monday following the abduction and murders of two French journalists, Ghislane Dupont and Claude Verlon on Saturday. News reports said that the journalists were taken in the troubled city of Kidal, just after they finished an interview with a rebel leader in the area. They were reportedly killed by gunfire after they had been abducted.
Michael Hart, a police officer from Skokie Illinois, was charged with aggravated battery and official misconduct for shoving a woman who had been charged with a DUI in a police station lock-up, news reports said. The deliberate shove caused serious injuries to her face,
Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) declared a campus emergency shortly before noon on Monday, telling students and faculty to take shelter "after an unidentified, possibly armed man was spotted."
Michael Moore, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, said Thursday that federal authorities will investigate the circumstances behind the death of Kendrick Johnson, a teenager whose bloody body was found inside a rolled-up gym mat at Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia on January 11
