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PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Police officer who fatally shot Eddie Irizarry last month at near point-blank range as he sat in his car has been charged with murder, prosecutors said. Mark Dial, 27, surrendered to police Friday morning, alongside his attorneys and leaders from the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #5. Dial said nothing, staring ahead as he walked through the station doors. District Attorney Larry Krasner said his office has charged Dial with first-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, and related offenses. Dial was set to be arraigned Friday afternoon. “We ......

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s highest civilian honor has been awarded to athletes, state lawmakers, religious leaders, retired military personnel and police officers. It’s been used to curry favor with voters and to reward longtime employees and agency directors. Rosa Parks, Ray Charles, author Pat Conroy, L.A. Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda and two-time presidential candidate Ross Perot each have one. So does the “Terminator” and former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The state’s Order of the Palmetto was created to honor and recognize a native or resident South Carolinian’s......

NEW YORK — Actor Edward Norton is starring in a real-life drama about a community effort to save a beloved Bedford-Stuyvesant mansion from the wrecking ball. Norton has sided with residents and advocates who have appealed to the city’s Landmarks Preservation Committee to stop developers from turning the 120-year-old Willoughby Avene mansion, known as the Jacob Dangler House, into a condominium complex. “I believe this house, which has served a shifting but significant purpose for over a century, should absolutely be viewed as not just a spiritual and aesthetic connection to the past but as a m......

PHILADELPHIA — Two police officers were shot Monday night during a Fourth of July celebration near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, law enforcement sources said. A Philadelphia highway patrol officer suffered a graze wound to the head, and an officer assigned to the Montgomery County bomb squad was struck in the right shoulder, said the sources, who were not authorized to discuss a developing situation. Both were taken to Jefferson University Hospital and placed in stable condition, sources said. Additional details about what happened were not immediately available. ———...

CHICAGO — John Catanzara officially retired from the Chicago Police Department on Tuesday, his attorney announced, one day after the embattled head of the city’s largest police union dramatically revealed his plans to leave the department in the midst of a disciplinary case and perhaps run for mayor. Lawyer Tim Grace confirmed Catanzara’s departure at a status hearing of the Chicago Police Board, where the controversial union figure faced a hearing for allegations of making numerous inflammatory social media statements as well as naming high-ranking command staff in arrest reports. It effectiv......

CHICAGO — The controversial head of Chicago’s largest police union faces firing this week, four years after officials launched an investigation into allegations he posted inflammatory statements on social media, including some advocating violence, while serving as a Chicago police officer. Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 President John Catanzara, whom rank- and-file officers elected as their union head while he was under investigation, faces dozens of Police Department rule violations connected to 18 allegations at the hearing slated to begin Monday morning at the Chicago Police Board. The p......