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Police say someone tried to shoot a man near downtown Wednesday morning and a bullet hit an occupied Savannah College of Art and Design building.
A 27-year-old man was walking through a Fred Wessels Homes courtyard by the 100 block of East Broad Street about 10:45 a.m. when a male suspect walked up to him with a gun.
As the victim passed by, the suspect started firing, said Sonny Cohrs, Savannah-Chatham police spokesman.
The victim got away safely, but a stray bullet struck Norris Hall at East Broughton and East Broad streets. No injuries were reported.

BROOKHAVEN — Police in suburban Atlanta found themselves counting sheep after a flock escaped an enclosure and blocked a road.Brookhaven police said in a news release that about 20 grazing sheep and their security dogs were spotted along a road early Wednesday.Police say they were able to contact the herder, who used a sheepdog to corral them back into their nearby enclosure.Investigators say they're not planning to file charges for blocking the roadway or impeding traffic.

The Savannah-Chatham police department arrested a 15-year-old boy for armed robbery at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday near the Truman Parkway overpass at Bee Road and East Anderson Street.The suspect, armed with a handgun, reportedly robbed a 17-year-old male who was on his way home from school, said Sonny Cohrs, spokesman for Savannah-Chatham police. The suspect was apprehended in the 1100 block of East 32nd Street after a brief pursuit. The teen was transported to the Regional Youth Detention Center without further incident, Cohrs said.

Hopkins begins nation’s first HIV-positive organ transplants
WASHINGTON — Surgeons in Baltimore for the first time have transplanted organs between an HIV-positive donor and HIV-positive recipients, a long-awaited new option for patients with the AIDS virus whose kidneys or livers also are failing.
Johns Hopkins University announced Wednesday that both recipients are recovering well after one received a kidney and the other a liver from a deceased donor — organs that ordinarily would have been thrown away because of the HIV infection.

MINNEAPOLIS — Two white police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a black man last fall will not face criminal charges, a prosecutor announced Wednesday in a decision that drew outrage from community members who said the move showed that the legal system is rigged against African-Americans.

MADISON, Wis. — Frustrated Republicans grappled with new fears about Donald Trump’s impact on their party Wednesday, as the billionaire businessman’s campaign rivals targeted his punitive plan for fighting abortion and extraordinary defense of his campaign manager, who police say assaulted a female reporter.

MILWAUKEE — Hillary Clinton’s campaign aims to effectively end the Democ

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Chandler Lloyd says he tries to be a good neighbor, hires people who may have troubled pasts, offers housing materials to charity and diverts thousands of tons of construction waste away from landfills every year.
But Lloyd’s business, Able Contracting, is now under fire and he is questioning a determination from the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control that he needs to come up with a better way to manage its storm water runoff.

SAN FRANCISCO — The FBI’s victory in breaking into a San Bernardino killer’s iPhone without Apple’s help merely prolongs a battle over how far the government can go to examine private messages, photos and other files.
“There’s a clash of values and interests that I think will continue,” said Ed Black, head of Computer and Communications Industry Association, a trade group whose members include Google, Facebook and Microsoft.

PARIS PROSECUTOR: SUSPECT CHARGED WITH TERRORISM OFFENSES
PARIS — Paris authorities filed preliminary terrorism charges Wednesday against a 34-year-old Frenchman for allegedly plotting an imminent attack and operating an explosives arsenal of what prosecutors called “unprecedented scale.”