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—A 10-hour firefight reportedly broke out among several parts of Guadalajara, Mexico, and in Guanajuato on Tuesday over the alleged capture of a high-ranking member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. [Reforma]
—Jury selection has begun in Vanessa Bryant's lawsuit against L.A. County over the Fire Department and Sheriff's Department's alleged taking of photos of the scene of her husband, Kobe Bryant's, deadly crash. [CBS]
—A police officer and two others, including the suspect's sister, were shot in Arcadia yesterday, amid a standoff with a gunman barricading himself for five hours. [CBS]
—Nipsey Hussle is set to get his own star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame on August 15. [The Source]