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The North Carolina man who shot and killed three U.S Marshal Task Force officers and one Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) officer was a felon barred from firearm possession. One of the three deceased task force officers was a Deputy U.S. Marshal, according to CNN. Breitbart News reported the incident unfolded Monday around 1:30 p.m. when the task force and the CMPD officer attempted to serve a warrant for a felon in possession of a firearm. The US Marshals Task Force, which is comprised of officers from multiple agencies, was conducting an investigation in the area of the 5000 block of...

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) A disc jockey at Eastern Michigan University's public radio station was fired after giving on-air opinions in favor of war in Iraq and refusing to air National Public Radio news. Terry Hughes was fired Wednesday by WEMU-FM station manager Art Timko. Hughes acknowledged his opinions were controversial. ''But this is personality radio,'' he said. ''I have nothing but opinions on my show, every show.'' On recent broadcasts of his Sunday night R&B and soul music program, Hughes has spoken in favor of the war in Iraq and President Bush's handling of it while denouncing NPR as biased...