NEWS OF THE DAY

From Across the Nation

_1 Police

shooting: The FBI has been asked to help investigate the death of a college football player who was fatally shot by an officer during a burglary call at a car dealership in Arlington, Texas, the police chief said Saturday. Chief Will Johnson said he had spoken to the FBI’s Dallas field office after the Friday shooting of Christian Taylor, a 19-year-old African American who was unarmed when shot by a white police officer. Officer Brad Miller has been placed on administrative leave. Johnson said Miller and another officer found Taylor roaming inside the dealership’s showroom when they arrived after 1 a.m. Friday. The officers told Taylor to surrender, but he refused, the chief said. They saw him trying to escape the showroom and pursued him. The incident ended with Miller shooting his service weapon four times, hitting Taylor at least twice, according to Johnson. _2 Vermont slayings: Gov. Peter Shumlin said Saturday the woman charged in the slaying of a state social worker is also “the alleged perpetrator” of the deaths of three relatives whose bodies were found earlier in the day. Shumlin said the three women found dead at a Berlin home were an aunt and two cousins of Jody Herring. Herring, 40, was arrested on a murder charge in the death of Lara Sobel. Sobel was gunned down after work Friday outside a state office building in Barre. She handled a case for the state Department for Children and Families in which Herring lost custody of her 9-year-old daughter, authorities said. Herring is to be arraignment Monday.

_3 Attorney general

arraigned: Pennsylvania’s top prosecutor barely spoke at her arraignment Saturday on charges including a felony count of perjury. Attorney General Kathleen Kane, a Democrat, did not enter a plea during the brief proceedings via closed-circuit television in suburban Philadelphia and only responded to the judge with yes or no. Kane is accused of leaking secret grand jury information through an operative to a newspaper reporter as payback for a former state prosecutor she thought made her look bad, and then lying about her actions under oath. “We’re looking forward to fighting the charges,” said her defense lawyer, Ross Kramer. “She has no plans to resign from her position.”

_4 Suspect slain: A man who had recently been released from jail stabbed his wife and five other people, including three at a convalescent home, before he was shot to death by police, authorities in Long Beach said. Derrick Lee Hunt, 28, of Long Beach died when he was shot Friday night. A knife with a 7-inch blade was found, police said. There was no immediate word on the motive for the attack. Five of the victims were listed in stable condition at hospitals, and the sixth person was treated at the scene for minor wounds, police said. Officers responded to a report of a stabbing in progress, Details of the confrontation with Hunt were not immediately released.