WHITE MAN CHARGED WITH FATALLY SHOOTING BLACK MAN
FLA.» Prosecutors ST. PETERSBURG, charged a white man with manslaughter Monday in the death of an unarmed black man whose video-recorded shooting in a store parking lot has revived debate over Florida’s “stand your ground” law.
Michael Drejka, 47, has been charged with the July 19 death of Markeis McGlockton outside a Clearwater convenience store, Pinellas County State Attorney Bernie McCabe said. Drejka was being held at the county jail on $100,000 bail. It was unknown if he had an attorney.
At a news conference, relatives of McGlockton said they were pleased with the charge.
Rival Korea leaders to meet in Pyongyang in September.
KOREA» The rival SEOUL, SOUTH
Koreas announced Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet in Pyongyang sometime in September, while their envoys also discussed Pyongyang’s nuclear disarmament efforts and international sanctions.
The push for what would be the leaders’ third summit since April comes amid renewed worries surrounding a nuclear standoff between Washington and Pyongyang.
The announcement released after nearly two hours of talks led by the rivals’ chiefs for interKorean affairs was remarkably thin on details. In a three-sentence joint statement, the two sides did not mention an exact date for the summit and provided no details on how to implement past agreements.
Kansas GOP governor candidates dig in for long ballot fight.
KAN.» Kansas WICHITA, election officials began reviewing some 9,000 provisional ballots Monday as the two candidates in the state’s tight GOP primary for governor appeared to dig in for a long and potentially nasty legal fight that could take weeks to play out.
Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a take-no-prisoners conservative, led the state’s low-key Gov. Jeff Colyer by a mere 110 votes out of more than 313,000 cast as of Friday evening. That was after late mail-in ballots were added to totals from absentee voting and ballots cast at the polls on Aug. 7.
The canvass began early Monday in suburban Kansas City’s Johnson County, where a board was set to review 1,800 provisional ballots, which are given at the polls to voters when their eligibility is in question. Seventy-six counties were to start canvassing Monday. Some will meet later this week and next.
Cities warn of unchecked pot deliveries, despite sales bans.
California cities on Monday objected to a proposed change in state rules that they say would allow unchecked home marijuana deliveries in places that have banned local pot sales.
In a letter to state regulators, the League of California Cities said the change would undermine local authority and potentially lure criminal activity to cities that wanted pot businesses kept out of their communities.
The proposal would unleash “cannabis delivery anywhere in the state, regardless of conflicting local regulations or bans,” the group wrote in the letter, released Monday but dated July 27.
Glacier latest U.S. park to be scorched by Western wildfires.
A wildfire destroyed structures and forced evacuations Monday from the busiest area of Montana’s Glacier National Park, as officials in California prepared to reopen Yosemite National Park following a two-week closure at the height of the summer season.
Meanwhile, a firefighter died Monday battling a massive blaze in Northern California — the sixth fatality in a matter of weeks.
State fire officials didn’t immediately provide details of the death, which occurred north of San Francisco, where the largest fire in recorded California history has been burning since July 27. — Denver Post wire services