It was announced at a joint news conference held in Sweden by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that the two countries are working toward a solution to end the violence in Syria.
On Tuesday, Alaska's governor, Sean Parnell ordered the state flags to fly at half-mast on Wednesday in observance of Peace Officers Memorial Day as well as Law Enforcement Memorial Week.
A Secretary in the Political section of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow was arrested and held for at time in that city on charges that he attempted to recruit a member of the Russian Intelligence Services on Monday.
It was announced by the Atlantic County Prosecutors office in New Jersey that authorities had arrested the father of the four-year-old boy who shot his six-year-old playmate on April 8th.