The Sunrise News Sampler

21-year-old Skyler Pierre Hinton turned himself in yesterday afternoon. Hinton is suspected of shooting Jamarcus Roberts-Kemp near the Motel 6 early Sunday morning. Roberts-Kemp was later pronounced dead.

Former U.S. Rep. Artur Davis says he will set up an exploratory committee for the 2015 mayor's race in his hometown of Montgomery. He says he knows he'll have to explain why he switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party and why being a Republican doesn't mean he's lost his heart for struggling people.

Warrants have been issued to arrest Forkland Mayor Derrick Biggs, following a series of deposit discrepancies that resulted to a total of $6,000 being missing.

Federal inspectors say they found thousands of emergency kits purchased with $660,000 in federal money in storage. The kits were supposed to have been distributed to Alabama-based community health centers, and it is unclear why they were never given out.

Marissa Alexander, the Florida woman who was arrested after firing a warning shot near her abusive husband, has been again denied in her request for a new hearing to seek immunity from prosecution under the Stand Your Ground Law, as a revision to the law to include such warning shots cannot be applied retroactively.

Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have released a train packed with the bodies of some of the 298 people killed when a Malaysian jetliner was shot down last week. They've also handed over the plane's black boxes.

Paula Deen has announced that she'll debut a network on September 24.

Donald Sterling met with the Los Angeles Clippers prospective buyer, former Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer, for 90 minutes yesterday afternoon. Sterling's attorneys told him he was likely to lose in court and a judge was expected to confirm his wife's right to sell the team.

Former Lakers star Michael Cooper has been diagnosed with early-stage tongue cancer, but he is expected to make a full recovery.