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Bill Lee, chief of the Sanford, Fla., police department, resigned after national outrage over his department’s handling of the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, 28. Zimmerman, who has claimed the shooting was in self-defense, was not arrested under tenents in the state’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law.

Canadian officials spotted an empty Japanese “ghost ship” off the coast of British Columbia. Officials estimated the ship was the first piece of 1.5 million tons of debris heading toward North America from Japan’s tsunami last...