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torneys have said the case is still in its early stages and their investigation is ongoing.
• April Jace's family has called her death a senseless act of domestic violence.
• Police say Jace called 911 to report the killing. Their two children were at home at the time but were unharmed.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Wednesday, June 18, the 169th day of 2014. There are 196 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 18, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson and Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda spoke to each other by telephone as they inaugurated the first trans-Pacific cable completed by AT&T between Japan and Hawaii, and linked to existing cables between Hawaii and California. (Due to the time difference, it was already June 19 in Tokyo.)
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• On this date:
• In 1778, American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the Revolutionary War.
• In 1812, the War of 1812 began as the United States Congress approved, and President James Madison signed, a declaration of war against Britain.
• In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte met his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated the French in Belgium.
• In 1873, suffragist Susan B. Anthony was found guilty by a judge in Canandaigua, New York, of breaking the law by casting a vote in the 1872 presidential election. (The judge fined Anthony $100, but she never paid the penalty.)
• In 1908, William Howard Taft was nominated for president by the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
• In 1912, the Republican National Convention, which would nominate President William Howard Taft for another term of office, opened in Chicago.
• In 1940, during World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct themselves in a manner that would prompt future genera (Continued on page 30)
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