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Baton Rouge Police arrive at the scene on Airline Highway after police were shot in Baton Rouge, La., Sunday, July 17, 2016. At least three officers are confirmed dead and at least three others wounded after the shooting, a sheriff's office spokeswoman said Sunday. One suspect is dead and law enforcement officials believe two others are still at large, the spokeswoman said. (AP Photo/Max Becherer) ORG XMIT: LAMB105

3 officers dead, 3 hurt in Baton Rouge shooting

Three law enforcement officers were killed and three others wounded Sunday morning in a shooting near a gas station in Baton Rouge.

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The Austin District police station, 5701 W. Madison. There are more than three white cops for every black cop assigned to this and another West Side district serving black neighborhoods that include Austin, West Garfield Park and East Garfield Park. | Brian Jackson~Sun-Times file photo

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Girl Band performs Saturday at the Pitchfork Music Festival at Union Station. | Talia Beechick / Sun-Times

For Pitchfork Music Festival’s best views, fans waited for hours

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Nate Thurmond addresses a crowd about cancer awareness before a Golden State Warriors game Dec. 22, 2002, in Oakland, Calif. | AP photo

NBA Hall of Famer Nate Thurmond, briefly a Bull, dead at 74

Former NBA great Nate Thurmond, a Hall of Fame center and onetime Bull, died Saturday of leukemia at 74.

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Missing Amtrak bomb-sniffing dog located

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Mary Mitchell. | Rich Hein / Sun-Times

MITCHELL: A happy surprise when I got pulled over by a white cop

Dark thoughts crossed my mind when a white cop pulled me over and let a white woman, also speeding, go. Turns out I was wrong, Mary Mitchell writes.

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Fethullah Gulen in 2013 at his home in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. | AFP / Getty Images

Exiled Muslim cleric with Chicago ties denies role in Turkey plot

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