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cers said.
• Jonesboro police released footage to The Associated Press and other news organizations under a Freedom of Information Act request this week. They released more footage Friday amid questions about why the first batch of video appeared to end before the officers found Chavis Carter, 21, slumped over and bleeding in the back of a patrol car on July 28 as described in a police report. Police have said officers had frisked Carter twice without finding a gun.
• The second batch of video occurred after Carter was discovered, police said.
• "There's still nothing in there about what actually happened with Chavis," Benjamin Irwin, a Memphis-based lawyer representing Carter's family, said Friday before the second batch of video had been released.
• The internal police investigation into the shooting has not yet been completed. The FBI has said it is also monitoring the case.
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• SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- As hundreds of residents in Washington and California were allowed to return to homes once threatened by major wildfires, people in two rural Idaho towns were told to evacuate as a massive blaze neared.
• The towns of Pine and Featherville remained in the path of a 113-square-mile wildfire that has been burning for two weeks.
• "It's a very active, very dangerous fire," said fire information officer Steve Till.

Crews "were prepared for it but civilians are probably much better not being here."
• Till said Friday that projections show the fire could reach the towns within 24 to 36 hours. The blaze has also stranded the tiny town of Atlanta to the north because the roads leading in and out of it were under threat, he said.
• Authorities also warned residents to leave ahead of a nearing wildfire in Custer County. The sheriff's office told some residents that if they did not evacuate by Friday evening, officials could not guarantee their safety.
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• VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) -- After forming close to shore, Tropical Storm Helene headed north along Mexico's Gulf coast early Saturday posing a threat to areas

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