6 teens found dead

6 teens found dead

BERLIN

Police in Germany say the bodies of six teenagers have been found dead in a garden house near the southern city of Wuerzburg.

Bavarian police say the owner of the garden in Arnstein, about 46.6 miles east of Frankfurt, found the bodies of his son, daughter and four others, all age 18 or 19, on Sunday morning.

He went there to investigate after failing to reach his children, who had a party at the garden Saturday night.

Wuerzburg police said in a statement that the circumstances surrounding the deaths still are unclear. They say there were no immediate indications of a violent crime at the garden house.

Woman in ‘stand your ground’ case to help others

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.

A Florida woman whose conviction sparked a change in the state’s gun laws is now completely free and says she plans to run an organization to help victims of domestic violence caught up in the criminal justice system.

Marissa Alexander tells The Florida Times-Union she wants to help others because “from what I’ve been through, I know a lot more about the system and how it fits together.”

The 36-year-old Alexander initially was sentenced to 20 years in prison after firing a shot near her estranged husband during an altercation. She contended she fired in self-defense. Alexander’s conviction was thrown out on appeal, and she reached a plea deal in 2014. She was released from home detention last week.

Sundance awards go to thriller, doc

LOS ANGELES

A crime thriller, a murder mystery, a documentary about Syria and one about an unconventional love story are among the top award winners of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

The Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood film, “I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore,” won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic, presented Saturday night at a ceremony in Park City, Utah, as the annual film festival came to a close.

The top award for a U.S. documentary went to “Dina,” a love story between a suburban woman and a Walmart greeter, while the world documentary prize was awarded to “Last Men in Aleppo.”

Hamon wins French Socialists’ primary election

PARIS

A partial vote count shows hard-left candidate Benoit Hamon winning the presidential nomination for France’s ruling Socialist Party, comfortably beating ex-Prime Minister Manuel Valls in a primary runoff vote.

The count from 60 percent of the voting stations showed Hamon winning with 58 percent of Sunday’s vote, with around 41 percent for Valls.

Hamon’s win sends the divided Socialists, weakened by the chronic unpopularity of outgoing President Francois Hollande, into a tough presidential battle behind a candidate with limited government experience and hard-left politics that could alienate some center-left Socialist voters.

Turkey urges Germany to deny asylum to soldiers

ISTANBUL

Turkey is urging Germany to reject the asylum requests of 40 former Turkish soldiers who purportedly took part in an unsuccessful coup.

Turkey’s Defense Minister Fikri Isik said Sunday that the soldiers applied for asylum in Germany after being dismissed from the military.

The state-run Anadolu Agency quoted him urging German authorities to carefully assess the applications and reject them.

Greece’s Supreme Court this week ruled against extraditing eight Turkish servicemen who fled their country after the failed July coup.

That decision infuriated Ankara, which threatened to cancel a bilateral agreement with Greece to curb illegal migration.

Associated Press