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MOBILE, Ala. (BP) -- Tim Smith, president of the University of Mobile since May 2016, has resigned, according to a news release issued by the university. Smith "cited personal reasons" for his resignation, the university's March 1 news release stated, providing no further information. A university spokesperson contacted by Baptist Press cited the news release as the only information being made available. Trustees announced after a March 1 meeting that interim leadership for the university was named and a nationwide search for a new president will begin. Current trustee chairman Fred Wilson was named interim president with David Conner becoming...

Officials confirm the man wanted for fatally shooting a Georgia police officer is in custody. Royheem Delshawn Deeds, 24, was captured in north Florida overnight. He was booked into the Nassau County Jail just before 3 a.m., according to an inmate search with the Nassau County Sheriff's Office. Deeds was wanted for murder in the shooting death of 31-year-old Officer Tim Smith in Eastman on Saturday, the GBI released in a statement Sunday. …

(CNN) — State police have named a suspect -- 24-year-old Royheem Deeds -- in the shooting death of a central Georgia police officer. They said Deeds is considered armed and dangerous. About 9:30 p.m. Saturday, officer Tim Smith responded to a Dodge County 911 call reporting a suspicious person at an intersection in Eastman, a town of 5,000 about an hour's drive southeast of Macon.