By KERA News & Wire Services
Dallas, TX – A suburban Dallas police chief says he has no regrets about the decision not to arrest the son of Dallas police chief David Brown hours before the son shot and killed a police officer.
David Brown Jr. shot and killed 23-year-old neighbor Jeremy McMillian, then Lancaster police officer Craig Shaw before police killed him.
Lancaster Police Chief Keith Humphrey said Wednesday there was nothing his officers could have done differently when they responded to a domestic disturbance call from the younger Brown's girlfriend at an apartment complex Sunday.
The call occurred seven hours before the fatal shots were fired.
Although the girlfriend told police that the younger Brown was having a "psychotic breakdown," Humphrey said no arrest could be made for what appeared to be a verbal disagreement.
Competition hot for Texas lottery contract
Big businesses are about to compete for a piece of the action in the Texas lottery.
International lottery companies are presenting proposals to the state by Tuesday showing how they would oversee the Texas lottery if they land its lucrative operations contract.
The Texas contract is currently held by GTECH Corp. It rarely comes up for bid, so the stakes are high for the competing businesses and taxpayers.
Each year the state's lottery generates some $3 billion in ticket sales, and the operator of the contract makes about $100 million per year.
Three firms - Scientific Games Corp., Intralot Inc. and GTECH - are likely to submit bids. All year the bidding process has been caught in conflict-of-interest questions that still linger.
Perry: Sunday day of prayer in Texas over spill
Gov. Rick Perry has declared Sunday a day of prayer in Texas over lives lost and the environmental disaster of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Perry, who Wednesday returned to Austin after more than a week in China on an economic development trip, issued a proclamation related to the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon. The April 20 rig explosion killed 11 workers.
BP PLC was leasing the rig from owner Transocean Ltd. of Houston.
Perry is urging Texans to pray Sunday "for the healing of individuals, the rebuilding of communities and the restoration of entire Gulf coast environment."
Experts say the current worst-case estimate of what's spewing into the Gulf is about 2.5 million gallons a day from the blown well, polluting shorelines from Louisiana to Florida.
No bond for Dallas man accused of Obama threat
A Dallas man accused of making an online death threat against President Barack Obama must remain in custody.
U.S. Magistrate Jeff Kaplan on Wednesday denied 43-year-old Brian Dean Miller bail, deciding he is a danger to the community. Miller is charged with one count of making threats against the president.
Miller was located via his e-mail address. He was living with his mother.
A posting titled "Obama must die" turned up on a Craigslist site on March 21, the night Congress passed a health care overhaul bill. The posting said Miller was following through on his vow to become a terrorist if the federal health care bill passed.
Miller's trial is expected in July. If convicted, he could get up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.