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Birmingham woman run over, killed following domestic dispute. A woman was killed Wednesday night after she was run over by a car following a domestic dispute. The Jefferson County Coroner's Office identified the woman as Cheryl Smith, 38. Authorities said she was run over after an argument with her husband in the 1700 block of 34th Street in Ensley.
The American black civil rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King, has been assassinated. Dr King was shot dead in the southern US city of Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a march of sanitation workers protesting against low wages and poor working conditions. He was shot in the neck as he stood on a hotel balcony and died in hospital soon afterwards.