Baton Rouge police shooting

Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch are scheduled to speak Thursday at a Baton Rouge vigil honoring the three law enforcement officers who were killed by a lone gunman during a shootout outside a convenience store.

Brad Garafola, a 45-year-old East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputy, will be laid to rest Saturday, one day after hundreds of people turned out for a funeral service for Baton Rouge police Officer Matthew Gerald, 41. Funeral services for the third officer slain, 32-year-old Montrell Jackson, are slated for Monday. A multi-agency memorial service for the officers is scheduled for Thursday.

Funeral arrangements are set for three Baton Rouge police officers shot to death in an ambush by a lone gunman.

At makeshift memorials, churches and rallies, Baton Rouge residents honored three slain officers while searching for ways to prevent more violence like the city has endured recently.

In the wake of continuing real-life gun violence, USA Network says it's postponing the debut of its new series "Shooter" for a second time.

Bill Spadea thinks that President Obama likes to characterize everything through the lens of an activist and that it is a dangerous game the president is playing.

The former Marine who ambushed and killed three Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police officers identified with a growing sovereign citizen movement that originated among white supremacists and whose adherents believe they're immune to most federal and state laws, including paying taxes and getting driver's licenses.

Just days before he was shot and killed Sunday morning, a Baton Rouge police officer posted an emotional Facebook message saying he was "physically and emotionally" tired and expressing how difficult it was to be both a police officer and a black man, a friend said Sunday.

Vice President Joe Biden on Monday condemned the slaying of three police officers in Louisiana, dubbing the shootings a "despicable act."

The man who killed two police officers and a sheriff's deputy in Baton Rouge Sunday was a former Marine sergeant who served in Iraq and had no known ties to any extremist groups.