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• India police hunt Sikh leader, arrest separatist supporters Indian police have launched a search for a separatist leader who has revived calls for an independent Sikh homeland, stirring fears of violence in northwestern Punjab state where there's a history of bloody insurgency. Police have accused Amritpal Singh, a 30-year-old preacher, and his aides of creating discord in the state, which is still haunted by the memories of an armed insurgency in the 1980s for an independent Sikh state called Khalistan. The insurgency had prompted a controversial military operation by the Indian government that killed thousands of people, according to official estimates. Authorities have deployed thousands of paramilitary soldiers…
• Police: 6 dead after work-zone crash on Baltimore Beltway Six people were killed when a passenger vehicle pulled into a work zone along the Baltimore beltway and struck construction workers there, Maryland State Police said Wednesday. Troopers responded to the work zone on northbound Interstate 695 at Security Boulevard in the Woodlawn area around 12:40 p.m. for a report of a pedestrian crash, police said in a news release. Emergency medical service personnel pronounced six people, all of them workers, dead on the scene, and the driver of the car was taken to the University of Maryland Medical Center’s Shock Trauma Center, police said. The preliminary investigation found that…
• Parkland father Manuel Oliver after arrest over protest: ‘I represented my son and he has a voice’ Manuel Oliver, whose 17-year-old son Joaquin was among the 17 victims of the Parkland school shooting, was arrested for protesting during a hearing Thursday in Washington, D.C. Oliver first used Twitter to protest. He wrote that it was “incredible” to watch “how Republicans decided” to attack the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Oliver wrote the lawmakers were doing so instead of addressing “America’s gun violence epidemic” and he accused them of serving “their role as Gun Industry’s little [expletive]!” Oliver, who was with his wife Patricia Oliver, later stood up during the “ATF Overreach” U.S. House committee hearing…
• 'Scared to go to school': Denver shooting stokes backlash Outraged Denver students and parents demanded better school security and pushed for tighter firearm controls Thursday, a day after a 17-year-old student shot and wounded two administrators at a city high school beset with violence. More than 1,000 students rallied at the Colorado Capitol to push gun reform legislation, while school board members endorsed the district superintendent's abrupt reversal of a policy that had banned armed officers from Denver schools. The shooting at East High School near downtown occurred as administrators were searching for weapons on suspect Austin Lyle, who fled from the scene and was found dead Wednesday night…
• ‘We’re learning love’: Inmates becoming dog trainers while finding pups forever homes The Everglades Correctional Institute in southwest Miami-Dade County is giving a second chance to both inmates and dogs. The nonprofit Magic City K9 hosted an event that allowed inmates to become certified dog trainers while providing the pups a chance for adoption. This is all about rehabilitation, for the inmates, but also for the dogs as both are just looking for another shot at life. “We’re learning patience, we’re learning love, we’re learning how to communicate,” said inmate Scott Turner. Inmates carefully guided shelter dogs Wednesday as they weaved through cones, and show they know how to sit, heel and…