COURTHOUSE SHOOTING: Bailiffs shot and killed a man who opened fire in the lobby of a St. Petersburg, Fla., courthouse Wednesday afternoon, sheriff’s officials said. One of the two bailiffs who fired at the unidentified man suffered a shoulder wound, Pinellas County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jim Bordner said; no one else was hurt.
HOWARD CHIEF: Howard University, one of the nation’s most prestigious historically black schools, has named Sidney Ribeau its new president. Ribeau, Bowling Green State University’s president, will become the 16th leader of the school in Washington, D.C.
LAW CHALLENGED: A group calling itself the Media Coalition filed a lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis challenging a new state registration law that the group claims infringes on the 1st Amendment rights relating to “sexually explicit” material.
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