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The government of Peru on Friday declared a state of emergency in a remote northern area after a clash between police and indigenous people protesting what they say is the exploitation of their native lands left a number of people dead.

A couple and their toddler son have been found shot to death in their Orange County apartment in an apparent murder-suicide, police said today.

A police spokesman says officers were called to a midtown Tucson motel at about 4 a.m. Thursday morning after an employee heard loud music and banging coming from the man's room.

An NFL player said Monday he accepts the apology offered by a Dallas police officer who stopped him with a drawn gun in a hospital parking lot while his mother-in-law was dying inside.

Three officers and a suspect are dead and another officer is in grave condition after related shootings, the police said.