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The lawyer for a Okla. police officer charged with manslaughter in connection with fatally shooting an unarmed man, says his client “wishes this never happened.” This comes as the victim's family calls for changes in police procedure. (Sept. 23)

Tulsa officer Betty Shelby “reacted unreasonably” when she fatally shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher on Sept. 16, prosecutors wrote in an affidavit filed with the charge on Thursday. Police also acted quickly to provide videos of the shooting to black community leaders and members of Crutcher’s family and then released them to the public.

Shelby was booked in the Tulsa County jail at 1:11 a.m. Friday and released 20 minutes later after posting $50,000 bond, according to jail records.

Crutcher died from a “penetrating gunshot wound of chest,” the Oklahoma state medical examiner’s office said Friday, classifying the death as a homicide. Spokeswoman Amy Elliott said a full autopsy report and toxicology results are not yet complete.

Video recorded by Keith Lamont Scott’s wife and provided by her attorney shows her repeatedly telling Charlotte police officers officers her husband is not armed and pleading with them not to shoot him. Warning: Graphic content. (Sept. 23)

President Obama made good today on this Friday afternoon on earlier threats by vetoing legislation passed unanimously by the House and Senate. The rejected bill would waive sovereign immunity protections for Saudi Arabia and allow victims of the Sept. 11 attacks or their relatives to sue the Saudi government for allegedly helping at least some of the 19 hijackers who carried out those attacks. Fifteen of the attackers were Saudi nationals.

KISSIMMEE, Fla. --  The Kissimmee Police Department needs the public’s assistance in attempting to locate David Yulfo.

The 72-year-okd Kissimmee man has been listed as a Missing/Endangered Adult due to his age and ongoing medical conditions.

A Russian toddler has been rescued after being lost for three days three days lost in Siberian woods, surving with chocplate he had with him.

A passenger assaulted a driver with an umbrella on a bus in Istanbul on Friday, causing him to lose control, veer out of the bus lane and crash into oncoming traffic, officials said. Eleven people were hurt. (Sept. 23)

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ORMOND BEACH, Fla. -- Retiring Mayor Ed Kelley has utilized another social media visual in his quest for Volusia County Chair in the Nov. 8 general elections: Promotions of two municipal cops.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Less than a day after Headline Surfer reported that an online site called Topix had a posting alleging David Lee Davis, the failed candidate in the Aug. 30 Volusia County primary and a substitute teacher, is a pedophile, the unsubstantiated allegation was taken down. However, the unsubstantiated accusation still shows up in the google search engines.