Minneapolis police officers will be required to have their body cameras on when they respond to calls and make traffic stops, the acting police chief announced Wednesday, following widespread criticism that two officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 911 caller had not activated their cameras.

The Seattle Police Officers Guild has filed a complaint over Mayor Ed Murray’s decision to require officers to wear body cameras.

Spokane County sheriff’s deputies are continuing to investigate an armed man who was shot and killed on the Moran Prairie earlier this month.

The city is seeing more heroin overdoses today than it did two years ago when it introduced a unique amnesty program replicated by hundreds of police departments across the nation that encourages addicts to turn in their drugs to police without fear of arrest to get fast-tracked for treatment.

Since July 3, there have been four violent car robberies or carjackings in the Spokane area, three of which appear to be random. Two happened to women while they were still in their car, and another two involved violent robberies where people were either injured or held hostage before a thief escaped with their vehicle.

Pullman High School students and staff were still struggling to make sense of the Monday death of former PHS student and shooting victim Tim Reeves, whose body was found Wednesday in a wooded area east of Troy.

When federal prosecutors asked to meet last month with Eric Garner’s family, it stoked speculation that their investigation into his death was finally nearing a resolution three years after his last words – “I can’t breathe” – became a rallying cry for protests over police killings of black men.

One person was shot dead and at least nine other people, including a Chicago police officer, were wounded in separate attacks within an 11-hour period Friday.

A witness who was nearby when Justine Damond was fatally shot by a Minneapolis police officer has been located and is cooperating, according to state investigators.