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Children shot by mother die

DAYTON, Ohio — Two children who police say were shot by their mother last week have died.

The bodies of the 8-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy were taken from Dayton Children’s Hospital to a coroner Sunday night.

Police Chief Richard Biehl has said their mother shot the children inside their home on Thursday and then took them to the front yard, where they were found by police and emergency crews. An 11-year-old who also was home at the time was not hurt.

The mother remains in jail. Police say she may have mental health problems. She’s scheduled to appear in court today.

Deputy kills drunk driving suspect

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — A sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a drunk driving suspect who allegedly fled a traffic stop and tried to fight him.

Osceola County Sheriff’s officials say a deputy responded to the Florida Turnpike on Saturday night after reports of a possible drunk driver. He stopped the vehicle, but the 37-year-old Carlos Garcia Petrovich was not cooperative and fled. The deputy caught up with Petrovich at a gas station and tried to place him under arrest. Authorities say Petrovich fled on foot and became violent.

The deputy shot Petrovich who was pronounced dead at the scene. The deputy was not identified.

Body pulled from car at golf course

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — Authorities are investigating after pulling a body from a car submerged at a North Carolina golf course.

Southern Pines police received a call at around 10:45 a.m. Sunday at Longleaf Golf Course. Officials pulled a body out of the water and deployed a dive team to make sure no one else was in the car.

Man shot as he gets inside police car

CONVERSE, La. — A police officer in a small western Louisiana town fatally shot a man who managed to get into a police vehicle.

Louisiana State Police are investigating. Converse police officer responded to a disturbance call. He encountered Ricco Devante Holden, described as a 24-year-old black male.

Few details have been released but state police said there was an altercation of some kind, during which Holden gained entry to a police vehicle.

Car ended up in swimming pool

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A man is trying to explain how his car ended up in a swimming pool.

Someone noticed the empty car submerged in the swimming pool at an apartment complex.

Owner James Bradley Poe said the car rolled into the pool after he got out, thinking it was in park. He tried to stop the car. He says he left it in the pool because he had to go home to care for his son.

Police say Poe has given conflicting accounts about what happened.

Robber gave clerk her phone number

AKRON, Ohio — Police say they identified a woman who robbed a video store because she first gave a clerk her real phone number.

Police issued a warrant for aggravated robbery after tracing the number to the 41-year-old woman.

A store employee says the woman walked into the store and shopped for a DVD. She then approached the checkout counter and gave her number to the employee to look up her account.

The employee says the woman put a note on the counter stating she had a gun. Reports show she demanded money with her hand inside her sweatshirt as if she had a weapon. The employee gave the woman an undisclosed amount of money, and she fled the store.

Video shows sea lion snatching girl

RICHMOND, British Columbia — A college student has startling video of a sea lion snatching a girl off a dock and yanking her into the water.

Michael Fujiwara said that some people started feeding the animal breadcrumbs.

The sea lion pops up toward the girl as bystanders laugh. Then she sits by the pier’s edge. In an instant, the massive mammal shoots up, grabs her dress and pulls her into the water.

The sea lion disappears as a man plunges into the water and helps the girl out. She doesn’t appear injured and walks away with adults.

Marine mammal expert Andrew Trites says the sea lion presumably thought the dress was food.

By The Associated Press

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