Shooting of unarmed man prompts protest

Shooting of unarmed man prompts protest

MADISON, Wis.

The fatal shooting of an unarmed black 19-year-old black by a white police officer, who authorities say fired after he was assaulted, prompted protesters Saturday to take to the college town’s streets with chants of “Black Lives Matter.” The city’s police chief said he understood the anger, assuring demonstrators his department would defend their rights as he implored the community to act with restraint.

Tony Robinson died Friday night after being shot in his apartment after a confrontation with Officer Matt Kenny, who had forced his way inside after hearing a disturbance while responding to a call, authorities and neighbors said.

Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said Kenny was injured but didn’t provide details. It wasn’t clear whether Robinson, who died at a hospital, was alone.

Boko Haram pledges allegiance with IS

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria

Nigeria’s home-grown Boko Haram group, newly weakened by a multinational force that has dislodged it from a score of northeastern towns, reportedly pledged formal allegiance to the Islamic State group.

The pledge to IS came in an Arabic audio message with English subtitles purported to have come from Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau and posted Saturday on Twitter, according to the SITE Intelligence monitoring service.

Earlier, the Nigerian extremist group was blamed for four suicide-bomb attacks that police said killed at least 54 people and wounded 143 in the northeast city of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state and birthplace of Boko Haram.

Crude-oil train derails

GOGAMA, Ontario

A CN Rail train carrying crude oil derailed early Saturday in northern Ontario, causing numerous tank cars to catch fire and spill into a local river system, officials said.

It was the third CN oil-train derailment in northern Ontario in less than a month, and the second in the same area, renewing concerns about the safety of shipping crude oil by train and further suggesting that new safety requirements for tank cars carrying flammable liquids are inadequate. CN said the cars had been retrofitted with protective shields to meet a higher safety standard known as the 1232.

Lawsuit: Cemetery threw out remains

LOS ANGELES

One of the nation’s largest Jewish cemeteries and the resting place of notables including Groucho Marx has been sued for purportedly breaking vaults to make room for more graves and throwing out human bones in a pile.

More than 60 people accuse Eden Memorial Park in Los Angeles suburb of Mission Hills of negligence, fraud and other civil offenses, according to the Los Angeles Daily News .

The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeks millions of dollars in damages and comes about a year after Eden Memorial’s parent company settled a lawsuit for $80.5 million over similar complaints at the same cemetery.

Bush: I’ll conduct an upbeat campaign

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush capped his first weekend politicking in early-voting Iowa by previewing what he said would be an upbeat campaign should he continue toward his all-but-declared candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.

“My hope is I will run a campaign, if I get there, that will be hopeful and optimistic,” Bush told about 200 people packed into the back room of a popular pizza restaurant.

Not yet a formal candidate, Bush acted like one during the two days he spent in Iowa.

Student group vetoes ban of flag in lobby

IRVINE, Calif.

A panel at the University of California, Irvine on Saturday vetoed a student-council vote to ban display of the American flag — or any other national flag — from its lobby, bringing a quick end to a prohibition that lasted just two days and won the school broad negative attention.

The UC Irvine executive cabinet voted 4-1 in a private meeting to overturn the ban that was narrowly passed by the campus’s Associated Students two days earlier.

Associated Press