Chief fires officer who killed student

Chief fires officer who killed student

ARLINGTON, Texas

A police officer who killed an unarmed college football player during a suspected burglary at a Texas car dealership was fired Tuesday for making mistakes that the city’s police chief said caused a deadly confrontation that put him and other officers in danger.

Arlington officer Brad Miller, 49, also could face criminal charges once police complete their investigation, Police Chief Will Johnson said.

Christian Taylor, 19, who was black, was a graduate of an Arlington high school and a football player at Angelo State University in West Texas. Miller is white.

UN workers accused of rape, slayings

UNITED NATIONS

Amnesty International is accusing U.N. peacekeepers of indiscriminately killing a 16-year-old boy and his father and raping a 12-year-old girl in separate incidents in Central African Republic, the latest in a series of sexual and other allegations against peacekeepers there.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is “personally dismayed and disappointed,” his spokesman said Tuesday. “We would like to emphasize once more that no misconduct of this nature will be tolerated,” Stephane Dujarric told reporters.

The U.N., however, has no powers of criminal investigation or prosecution, leaving it up to peacekeepers’ home countries – which U.N. officials often don’t name publicly.

Prisoners: We were beaten after 2 fled

ALBANY, N.Y.

Inmates who knew the two convicted killers who escaped from a maximum-security prison in northern New York reported beatings by guards trying to determine where the pair went, according to a legal-services group.

Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York has received several complaints from inmates on that Clinton Correctional Facility honor block, who later were moved to other prisons, managing attorney James Bogin said Tuesday.

A 23-day manhunt by more than 1,100 law-enforcement officers followed the June 6 escape of murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat. Matt was fatally shot June 27 about 30 miles from the prison. Sweat was shot and recaptured nearby two days later.

Legionnaires’ bacteria lead to drug-plant shutdown

RALEIGH, N.C

Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline shut down a plant Tuesday that produces inhaled medications after discovering the bacteria that cause Legionnaire’s disease, a potentially fatal form of pneumonia.

The manufacturing plant in Zebulon, about 25 miles east of Raleigh, was closed after routine testing found the bacteria in a self-standing cooling tower. About 400 of the 850 employees who work in Zebulon were told to stay away until the towers are cleaned, officials for the London-based company said.

Clinton relinquishes personal server

WASHINGTON

Hillary Rodham Clinton relented Tuesday to months of demands she relinquish the personal email server she used while secretary of state, directing the device be given to the Justice Department.

The decision advances the investigation into the Democratic presidential front-runner’s use of a private email account as the nation’s top diplomat, and whether classified information was improperly sent via and stored on the home-brew email server she ran from her house in suburban New York City.

Associated Press