Forget naughty or nice.

Americans no longer wait for Santa to bring presents. Instead, they are buying their own presents.

Yes, more and more people are treating themselves when they are out shopping for others.

Nearly 60 percent of people are now "self-gifting," according to the National Retail Federation.

It's become so acceptable that the number of people admitting they are doing it has nearly doubled in the past two years, according to research by Stored Value Solutions, a company that runs gift card programs.

"People feel like at the end of the year they have more money to splurge on themselves. It's pent up demand," says Jenny Parris, senior vice president of global marketing and product for Stored Value Solutions. She notes that Americans have been pretty frugal -- savings have increased -- but gas prices have also stayed low this year, giving people a bit more to spend.

Stores have noticed. They are starting to cater to people who want to pick up a little something for themselves.

Overall, Americans say they plan to spend about the same this year as they did last year -- just over $800, according to the National Retail Federation.

But the portion that they set aside for self-gifting is up by a few dollars to $132.

"One of the key trends in this space is the millennials," says Kathy Allen of the National Retail Federation. "They are still the largest group who take advantage of sales across the board."

People are also getting their holiday shopping earlier and earlier -- sometimes even before Thanksgiving. A little self-gifting is a reward for getting the job done.

Another way to justify self-gifting is when shoppers go after additional perks.

"Consumers say they're buying for themselves in order to get additional rewards," says Parris.

Many stores offer $10 to $75 reward cards to shoppers who buy certain items or spend at least a certain amount. It's a way for stores to get customers to return. Shoppers might buy that extra item for themselves in order to bump them over the threshold for that reward.

Another trend for 2015 is what Kate Warne, chief investment strategist at Edward Jones, calls "nesting and connecting." People are spending on home improvement and on technology.

But those gadgets can be perfect for someone else -- or yourself.

As the New York Post wrote in its roundup of the best holiday present ideas, "Men's Journal's holiday gift guide looks like it was tailored for self-gifting."

Hundreds of angry Cubans confronted police and Ecuadoran embassy officials in an unusual display of public discontent on Friday after the surprise announcement of a new visa requirement aimed at choking off this year's historic overland emigration of Cubans across more than 3,000 miles (5,000 kilometers) of South and Central America to the U.S. border with Mexico.

Chanting "Visa! Visa!" as dozens of uniformed and plainclothes security agents looked on, Cubans with tickets booked for Ecuador in coming days complained that they would lose years of savings because of the change announced by the Ecuadoran government Thursday evening, which left them less than two business days to get their hands on a visa.

Deputy Foreign Minister Xavier Lasso said Ecuador would require visas of Cubans starting Dec. 1 in order to curb migration that he said "puts at risk men, women and children."

Ecuador had been one of the few countries in the hemisphere that doesn't require visas for Cuban visitors, making it the chief starting point for tens of thousands of Cubans who have flown there this year and then made an overland trek across seven borders to reach the U.S., where they receive automatic legal residency. The flow has surged in 2015 due largely to fears that the detente between the U.S. and Cuba announced last Dec. 17 would lead to the end of special Cold War-era privileges for Cuban migrants.

Two leftist Latin American countries allied with Cuba have begun to crack down on the northbound flood.

Nicaragua closed its southern border to Cuban migrants this month, leaving more than 2,000 stranded inside northern Costa Rica. Ecuador, another Cuban ally, said Thursday that it was committed to what it called efforts by the Latin American community to prevent migration without authorization.

Cubans who learned that they would suddenly need visas for flights as early as Tuesday massed in front of the Ecuadoran embassy early Friday as security agents closed off the surrounding streets with yellow police tape.

Street gatherings that aren't explicitly pro-government are extremely rare in Cuba and the crowd in front of the Ecuadoran embassy on Friday expressed a degree of anger at President Raul Castro's government that is rarely seen in public.

"This is Raul Castro's fault, nobody else's," said one member of the crowd, as security agents and members of the international media recorded the events. .

"I'm desperate," said Carmen Lopez, a 62-year-old homemaker who spent $800 on a ticket for a Wednesday flight to visit her two sons in Ecuador. "I've made a lot of sacrifices to save my money to be able to go see them."

Ecuadoran embassy officials outraged the crowd when they announced through a loudspeaker than Cubans traveling next week would have to apply online for tourists visas.

Most Cubans have almost no internet access.

"They haven't told us anything," said Yasell Zayas Salinas, a 25-year-old self-employed candy seller, who had been planning to fly to Ecuador with his brother. "They changed it all from one day to the next."

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A large chunk of debris from a SpaceX rocket has been found floating off a remote British island, more than 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers) from where it exploded after takeoff.

The barnacle-encrusted debris -- which measures about 33 feet by 13 feet (10 meters by 4 meters) and is decorated with a U.S. flag -- is believed to have come from an unmanned Falcon 9 rocket, designed by Elon Musk's private aerospace company.

The rockets are launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. But the object was found off the Isles of Scilly, a small archipelago southwest of the British mainland.

The words "Falcon 9" were visible on the debris, said Joseph Thomas, a boat captain who spotted the wreckage in the waters between Bryher and Tresco in the Isles of Scilly on Thursday afternoon.

"My first thoughts were, it might be a whale or something dead floating on the surface, because there were seabirds feeding off it," said Thomas, a skipper for Tresco Boat Services. "It turned out they were feeding off goose barnacles."

Writing appeared to be visible on the debris, so there were fears it could have come from a plane. The reality was even more remarkable.

"Once we got it ashore with the help of another vessel, (the coastguard) scraped some of the goose barnacles off, and it just so happened the first place they scraped, they found the flag," Thomas said.

Martin Leslie, coastal area commander for the coastguard, said in a statement that the debris "seems most likely to be (from) the unmanned Space X Falcon 9 which blew up shortly after takeoff from Cape Canaveral in June."

That rocket had been on a resupply mission to the International Space Station, carrying more than 2 tons of goods, including 1,500 pounds of food and provisions for the three astronauts there.

At the time, it was the third spacecraft to fail to resupply the International Space Station in months.

SpaceX didn't have any immediate comment.

Local resident Pete Hicks, who was involved in bringing the debris to shore, tweeted, "Towed in and beached a piece of flotsam earlier. Thoughts were could be aviation parts... didn't imagine space race."

The debris is now on a beach on the island of Tresco, where authorities were checking it for serial numbers and liaising with SpaceX to identify which mission it had come from.

The man arrested for jumping the White House fence Thanksgiving Day made his first court appearance Friday, after which he was sent for psychiatric evaluation.

Joseph Caputo, 23, of Stamford, Connecticut, was charged with illegal entry of restricted grounds for jumping the fence protecting the White House. He was stopped by Secret Service on the lawn almost immediately and arrested.

After Friday's court appearance, Caputo was released into Secret Service custody to be transported for evaluation at the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program at St. Elizabeth Hospital ahead of a scheduled hearing Monday in the D.C. District Court.

According to court documents, Caputo left a suicide note with two associates he had been staying with since Monday and left a message for his mother that he might not see her again.

"Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around us who transform into the Force," he wrote in the note, according to the documents.

When confronted by Secret Service agents, Caputo made statements including, "I love my country," and "I knew I would be locked up."

In addition to the American flag he was seen wearing around his shoulders as he scaled the fence, Caputo was carrying a USB drive in the shape of the "Captain America" shield, a pocket guide to the Constitution and weightlifting gloves, according to the documents.

Caputo faces a maximum of one year in prison.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat who represents D.C. in Congress, released a statement on Friday expressing dismay with the fact that Caputo was able to scale the fence and calling for a meeting with the Secret Service to discuss "quick corrective action."

A car hit a fire hydrant in Oakland Park blocking lanes Friday morning.

The crash happened along Commercial Boulevard at Northeast Sixth Avenue.

It’s not clear what caused the driver to crash into the hydrant.

One lane of traffic was getting by as crews worked to clean up the mess.

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Authorities say a Georgia man was seriously wounded at a northeast Florida shooting range.

The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office reports that the 62-year-old man was behind a target at the Ancient City Shooting Range in St. Augustine Friday morning when he was shot in the upper leg and lower abdomen.

The Florida Times-Union reports that he was airlifted to a Jacksonville hospital and listed in stable condition.

It wasn't immediately clear how the man was shot. Officials believe the shooting was accidental, but they are still investigating.

Protesters marched on Chicago's luxury corridor during a major shopping holiday Friday and demanded the resignations of the city's top leaders, alleging a yearlong cover-up of a police video depicting an officer's killing of teenager Laquan McDonald.

Paralyzing traffic on Chicago's famous Michigan Avenue, demonstrators used Black Friday's prominence to declare that the mayor, police commissioner and prosecutor must step down.

They also demanded a federal investigation into the Chicago Police Department.

Protesters locked arms outside the doors of major retailers such as Neiman Marcus and Tiffany & Co., preventing shoppers from entering. To exit stores, shoppers often knocked on the glass door and asked protesters to allow them out.

Police kept a distance from the protesters and blocked traffic from entering onto Michigan Avenue.

Led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush and other black leaders, protesters flowed over the elegant thoroughfare, also called Chicago's Magnificent Mile, which leads to the city's Gold Coast neighborhood.

Demonstrators chanted "Stop the cover-up!" and "16 shots! 16 shots!" which was the number of times the officer fired upon McDonald.

"We're tired of this police cover-up and the state's attorney's cover-up," the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a Catholic priest in Chicago, told CNN. "People are mad here in Chicago."

Energizing the ongoing protests are a growing number of black community leaders and groups, including the City Council Black Caucus that says it will seek a vote of no confidence against police Superintendent Garry McCarthy.

McCarthy won't resign, he told reporters Friday.

"I've never quit on anything in my life," McCarthy said. "What I will tell you is that the mayor has made it very clear that he has my back.

"And if people peel away the onion on what's happening right now in the policing world, you're going to find a police department that's doing an exceptional job."

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez weren't immediately available for comment Friday.

This week's release of police dash cam video of McDonald's killing is becoming a political as well as policing controversy.

The video shows McDonald, 17, being shot on a city street last year by Officer Jason Van Dyke, who this week was charged with first-degree murder. Even President Barack Obama said he was "deeply disturbed" by the footage.

Local NAACP chapters joined the call for a federal investigation into the police department, CNN affiliate WGN-TV said. Jackson said he met with Rush and U.S. Rep. Danny Davis as well as activists, and they, too, sought a U.S. Justice Department inquiry into the police's handling of the McDonald shooting, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Jackson is also demanding changes to the police chain of command.

"The police leadership has to change as well as its infrastructure," Jackson told CNN moments before Friday's march began.

What continues to roil the black community is that police and prosecutor Alvarez waited 400 days to release the tape, well after last spring's election in which Emanuel faced stiff competition and had to undergo the first-ever runoff election in Chicago history, an eyebrow-raising moment for an incumbent in a city renowned for its "machine"-like politics.

Emanuel, a former top aide to Obama, won re-election.

"Who knew about the tape and who covered it up for 13 months?" Jackson asked.

In the wake of the video's release, protesters and community leaders want a Justice Department investigation similar to ones conducted into the police departments in Cleveland and Ferguson, Missouri, and one now being conducted in Baltimore.

"We believe CPD officers have engaged in the systemic use of excessive force and carried out a pattern of discriminatory harassment against African-American residents in the city," Chicago Urban League interim President Shari Runner said in a statement. "Furthermore, they have been dishonest about those practices, in some cases even covering up illegal activity.

"It is imperative that the Department of Justice step in and correct this conduct before there is any more loss of life."

Jackson, who's president of the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition, noted how the city opposed the release of the video until a judge finally ordered its release under a reporter's Freedom of Information Act request.

Jackson and Rush want a special prosecutor in the McDonald case, they told CNN. Rush also called for a separate grand jury investigation.

"The state's attorney has no credibility," Jackson said. "This was strategically covered up."

Added Rush, beside Jackson as they marched on Michigan Avenue: "Our fight for justice will not stop."

Public access to government records has generated headlines in the nation's third-biggest city.

In September, the Chicago Tribune filed a lawsuit alleging that the mayor violated state open records laws by refusing to release communications about city business conducted through private emails and text messages. The newspaper accused the mayor's office of "a pattern of noncompliance, partial compliance, delay and obfuscation" in handling the public's requests to see records.

Emanuel said his office always complies and works through all information requests "in the most responsive way possible," the newspaper reported.

Regarding the delay in releasing the video of McDonald's shooting, Jackson wrote on his group's website that city officials "sat on the tape for more than a year, buried the killing in an unending investigation, gave the officer a pass, and got through the elections."

Hours before the video's release this week, prosecutor Alvarez filed a first-degree murder against Van Dyke, the officer who fired 16 shots in about 15 seconds at McDonald.

Van Dyke's attorney, Daniel Herbert, said his client feared for his life in his encounter with McDonald, who was armed with a knife, and that the one video doesn't tell the full story of events leading up to the shooting.

Shoppers flooded the Dolphin Mall in Sweetwater to take advantage of the Black Friday deals.

Traffic was closed Friday afternoon in Miami Beach because of a suspicious package, police said.

A valet driver was driving a car and thought he saw a suspicious device inside and told authorities, according to the Miami Beach Police Department.

The owner of the car told police that the "suspicious device" was a firearm. He gave police permission to search the car and police found that everything was clear.

City of Miami Beach officials said northbound and southbound Washington Avenue traffic was blocked between Fifth and Sixth streets, including pedestrian traffic.

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Raspberry Pi has raised the bar on low-cost computing again.

The UK-based educational nonprofit released a new, tiny computer on Thursday for $5, the Raspberry Pi Zero, and sold out of it online within a day.

That's $30 cheaper than its original Raspberry Pi model, which went on sale in 2012. And $4 less than the CHIP, which raised more than $2 million on Kickstarter earlier this year.

"We were amazed at the rush on stores that happened as soon as we announced the release," Liz Upton, Raspberry Pi's head of communications, told CNNMoney in an email.

Raspberry Pi even gave away 10,000 devices for free with a copy of its December magazine, The MagPi. Issues of the magazine are now sold out too.

"More Zeroes are being built at the moment and we'll keep making them, but we think it's going to be a little while before we'll be able to keep up with demand!" Upton said.

So why all the fuss?

The Raspberry Pi made a name for itself as the maker of the world's smallest and cheapest computer in 2012. Essentially, Raspberry Pi computers are just motherboards that can be built to power robots, and used to create connected devices.

Like the foundation's first two products, the Raspberry Pi Zero is intended mainly to help people learn to program computers in an affordable way.

Upton says all the profits "go straight back into free learning resources, training teachers, running Code Clubs and getting kids involved with computing."

The Raspberry Pi Zero is smaller than a mustard packet and light enough to be held up by two Lego figures.

To use it, you'll have to add your own monitor, keyboard, power source and data storage, via a micro-SD card slot.

But with a 1-gigahertz processor and 512 megabytes of RAM, it packs as much computing power as the iPhone 4. There's even a mini-HDMI socket so you can play HD videos.

The mini-computer runs a version of Linux called Raspbian, as well as applications that teach coding skills -- such as Minecraft, Scratch and Sonic Pi.

Over the past few years, Raspberry Pi has spawned a number of other low-cost computers that help teach people how to program and code.

Kano, for example, is a build-it-yourself computer kit that actually uses Raspberry Pi as its brains.

The Florida Lottery reported four winners in Friday's "Fantasy 5" with a top prize of $53,345.57.

A total of 430 tickets matching four of five numbers won $80 each.

Another 11,458 tickets matching three numbers won $8 each and 101.631 tickets won a Quick Pick ticket for picking two numbers.

The numbers drawn on Friday night were 02-03-11-19-23.

Tracy Morgan says his life will never be the same after a near-fatal car crash in June 2014 -- and that's not necessarily a bad thing.

In an interview with Complex, the "Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock" funnyman opened up on life after the collision, which killed longtime friend and comedian James McNair and left Morgan in a coma for two weeks.

"You're never going to be normal after you go through something like that. You don't die for a few weeks and then come back to normal, trust me," he said. "Something's going to be missing, something's going to be gained -- you just got to live your life after that. But after surviving something like that, I'm probably never going to feel normal."

Morgan said he "went to the other side" while he was in his coma and learned that his time on Earth was not quite up.

"This is not something I'm making up," Morgan said. "Do you know what God said to me? He said, 'Your room ain't ready. I still got something for you to do.' And here I am, doing an interview with you."

Morgan said he's taking life one day at a time -- "just living my life" -- with no big plans beyond a stint as Foot Locker's latest spokesman and a 2016 tour.

Morgan returned to "Saturday Night Live" as host in October, an experience he described as "special."

"There was so much goodwill and I felt that energy, like, 'Yo, we happy you alive!' It wasn't like they were looking for laughter, no. 'We just happy you alive and you're here walking,' " he said.

"And that made it special for me. I just want to give it back through my sense of humor."

Two American flag collection bins are missing from their Tallahassee-area locations.

The Tallahassee Democrat reports that the bins were used to collect discarded flags that were donated for burial ceremonies of deceased veterans.

A Tallahassee funeral and cremation service collects the flags in 14 bins located throughout the region.

The company's owner says whoever took the bins is showing disrespect to the country and to its veterans. He is asking for anyone with information about the thefts to help him recover the missing flags and bins.

Ships with dead sailors aboard appear on Japanese coastline

A grieving mother who is determined to find the driver who ran down her son, and after police named a person of interest, she is now focused on the family home.

A suspect in the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, the most-wanted man in Europe, is said to have stopped off in a cafe in Brussels the day after the killings.

The possibility that Salah Abdeslam might have been taking his ease in a public place in the Belgian capital is problematic for authorities who already let him slip through their net when he departed France.

The information comes from a laywer for Ali Oulkadi, the man who picked up Abdeslam and an identified friend at a Brussels subway stop the day after the Paris attacks, which killed 130 people.

'For my client, it was a shock'

The lawyer, Olivier Martins, told Belgian news organizations that his client, Oulkadi, got a call November 14 to pick up a friend at the Bockstael subway station in Laeken, a suburb northwest of Brussels. With that friend, it turned out, was Abdeslam, Martins said.

"He did not know it was Salah and did not recognize him immediately when he arrived because he was wearing a cap," Martins said. "In the car, Salah told him that his brother, Brahim, had killed people in Paris and had blown himself up. For my client, a childhood friend of the two brothers, it was a shock, He could not understand it and could not think clearly."

On the way back to the Brussels neighborhood of Schaerbeek, the trio stopped in a cafe, the lawyer said.

Investigators haven't detailed what they believe Abdeslam's role was in the coordinated series of attacks, but Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said he may have dropped off suicide bombers at the Stade de France and then made his way to another Paris neighborhood. His fingerprints, Molins said, were found in a car connected with the attacks.

On the night of the attacks, authorities say, two men from Belgium drove to Paris to pick Abdeslam up and take him back to Brussels. Abdeslam allegedly had called the men -- identified as Mohammed Amri, 27, and Hamza Attou, 21 -- to say that his car had broken down.

Oulkadi's alleged encounter with Abdeslam, according to Oulkadi's lawyer, happened on the afternoon of November 14 -- shortly after Amri and Attou are said to have driven Abdeslam back to Brussels.

Belgium holding six in connection with Paris attacks

Oulkadi, Amri and Attou are among six people that authorities in Belgium -- whose capital city is said to be a hotbed of European jihadism -- are holding in connection with investigations into the Paris attacks.

Amri and Attou were arrested in Belgium on November 14 and have been charged with terrorism offenses. Lawyers for the two men say they had no idea of Abdeslam's alleged involvement.

A court on Friday ordered Oulkadi, identified by Belgium's federal prosecutor only as Ali O., detained for a further 30 days.

Martins said Oulkadi had done nothing wrong.

"He was in Brussels during the evening of Friday, November 13th, has no criminal record and is absolutely not radicalized," Martins said. "When he learned that Salah was wanted, he should have gone to the police and told his story, but he was scared and didn't get the right advice at the time.

"You're not going to tell me that driving someone from one location to another around Brussels means that you're automatically implicated in the terrorist attacks," Martins said.

The Belgian prosecutor's office hasn't identified the three others held.

One was charged Monday with participating in the activities of a terrorist group. Another, arrested Thursday, was charged Friday with "terrorist murders and participation in the activities of a terrorist organization," the federal prosecutor's office said.

The sixth person was ordered Friday to be detained for 30 days.

Police say an 82-year-old Florida man was fatally struck by a car as he crossed a street on Long Island.

Nassau County police say the accident happened at 5:45 p.m. Friday in Lawrence.

They said Theodore Schiffman, of Boca Raton, was crossing the Nassau Expressway when he was hit by a car.

Schiffman was taken to a local hospital. He was pronounced dead there at 8:32 p.m.

The driver of the car remained at the scene and has not been charged.

No one was hurt or hospitalized after a fire Saturday at a vacant house, which is now a total loss.

The fire happened around 9:20 a.m. Saturday in the 1700 block of Northwest Sixth Avenue in Fort Lauderdale.

A police officer told Local 10 News that the incident happened at an apparent vacant crack house. The fire began outside of the house.

Arson investigators arrived at the scene Saturday.

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Attorney General Loretta Lynch calls it a "crime against women;" Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper says it's "a tragedy that is beyond speech."

Police have not yet disclosed any motive for the shooting.

Meanwhile, suspect Robert Lewis Dear's trail leads back to a hermit's shanty in the isolated mountains of North Carolina, and a Colorado community mourns an officer who drove 10 miles to help fellow officers, only to encounter a furious flurry of gunfire.

Three people were shot and killed Friday in a harrowing, hours-long siege at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, a city of about 450,000 some 70 miles south of Denver.

Among the victims was Garrett Swasey, a University of Colorado-Colorado Springs police officer who rushed to the clinic to offer his assistance. "There was no way any of us could have kept him here," UCCS Police Chief Brian McPike said of Swasey during a Saturday evening vigil. "He was always willing to go...he had an enthusiasm that was hard to quell."

Colorado Springs Police Chief Peter Carey said that the identities of the other two victims likely will not be released until Monday, after autopsies have been performed.

In addition to the three killed, five officers and four civilians were hospitalized for wounds sustained in the shooting. Lt. Catherine Buckley said Friday night all were in good condition. By late Saturday afternoon, officials said five patients remained in two hospitals.

One of those is Colorado Springs SWAT team officer Dan Carter, according to his parents, who told CNN that their son was recovering from a gunshot wound.

Opposition to abortion eyed as motive

"I'm not going to say the perpetrator's name," a sullen Hickenlooper said Saturday, referring to Robert Lewis Dear, the man authorities suspect was the shooter.

Dear, 57, is being held without bail in a Colorado Springs jail, according to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office.

While authorities said that a motive had not yet been established, Mayor John Suthers said "inferences (could be made) from where it took place," the Denver Post reported.

Vicki Cowart, president of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, went beyond an inference, saying the shooter "was motivated by opposition to safe and legal abortion." Lynch, who called the "unconscionable attack" a "crime against women receiving health care services," pledged the full resources of her office for the investigation.

Planned Parenthood, which delivers reproductive health care and sex education to women and men across the United States, has come under attack before.

At least three Planned Parenthood buildings have been vandalized since September, when the organization was criticized in Washington and by some Republican presidential candidates after an anti-abortion group released videos alleging that it sold fetal organs and parts for profit. Planned Parenthood has disputed the veracity of the videos, contending that they are heavily edited and provide a distorted account.

Who is Robert Lewis Dear?

Based on a public records search, Dear appears to have lived in Colorado for only about a year. In October 2014, Dear purchased property in Hartsel, a rural community about 65 miles west of the clinic, for $6,000. Zigmond Post, a neighbor, said one of the few interactions he had was when Dear brought him some anti-Obama pamphlets. "That's about all I've run into him," he said.

Prior to Hartsel, Dear appears to have spent much of his life in the Carolinas.

WLOS, a CNN affiliate in Asheville, North Carolina, photographed a dilapidated-looking mountain cabin that Dear reportedly called home in rural Buncombe County. The sheriff's office there said they only had one recorded contact with Dear, a civil citation issued in 2014 for allowing his dogs to run wild.

A decade before that, Dear was arrested and charged with two counts of animal cruelty while living in South Carolina, but he was found not guilty in a 2003 bench trial. In 2002, Dear was charged with being a peeping tom; those counts were dismissed in South Carolina. In 1997, Dear's wife accused him of domestic assault, although no charges were pressed, according to records provided by the Colleton County, South Carolina Sheriff's Office.

Dear is scheduled to appear at 1:30 p.m. Monday before Chief Judge Gilbert Martinez, El Paso County court spokesman Rob McCallum said.

Scanners capture police plans

Conversations captured over the police scanner gave glimpses into the drama as well as the strategic debate about what to do.

Despite initial fears that the gunman might be running around outside, authorities later determined that he was inside the Planned Parenthood building -- once he got through the front door -- throughout the siege, Buckley said.

Joan Motolinia's sister was among those inside. She called her brother Friday afternoon, and "I heard the shooting," a tearful Motolinia said.

"She couldn't say much because she was afraid," he said.

Kentanya Craion, who had visited the clinic for an ultrasound, said she saw the gunman shooting as she left outside in the parking lot, so she turned around and ran back inside. "He had no remorse," Craion said. "This was just a game to him."

Obama: 'Enough is enough'

In a statement Saturday, President Barack Obama didn't mention the controversies surrounding Planned Parenthood, but he did offer praise for Swasey, condolences to the families of the victims and condemnation of the attack as another example of gun violence.

"The last thing Americans should have to do, over the holidays or any day, is comfort the families of people killed by gun violence -- people who woke up in the morning and bid their loved ones goodbye with no idea it would for the last time," Obama said. "And yet, two days after Thanksgiving, that's what we are forced to do again."

As he has time and again after mass shootings, the President called on policymakers to do something to prevent them.

"This is not normal. We can't let it become normal," he said. "If we truly care about this -- if we're going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for God knows how many times, with a truly clean conscience -- then we have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business yielding them.

"Period. Enough is enough."

An altercation at a Blue Martini in Brickell left a Major League Baseball player injured.

Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig sustained a swollen eye and facial bruises during a fight with a bouncer.

Miami police spokesman Major Delrish Moss said the injuries happened Wednesday night as the Cuban slugger was leaving the bar at bouncers' request following an argument with his sister. Initial reports said Puig had put his hands on his sister, but Miami police said that both Puig and his sister said it was nothing more than a verbal altercation.

Major League Baseball plans to investigate, making Puig the second player subject to potential discipline under the sport's new domestic violence policy.

Moss said "at some point" Puig and a bouncer began to fight, leaving Puig with the swollen left eye and "minor bumps and bruises" to his face. Moss said the bouncer got a busted lip and minor facial bruises.

The spokesman said the bouncer claimed Puig sucker-punched him; Puig said the bouncer got too aggressive. Moss said neither wanted to press charges.

A Dodgers spokesman said Friday night the team had no comment.

Limited to 72 games this season because of hamstring injuries, Puig hit .255 with 11 homers and 30 RBIs.

The Cuban defector, who turns 25 next month, makes his offseason home in Miami.

It's the latest in a series of scrapes involving Puig. He was arrested twice for reckless driving in 2013, leading the Dodgers to say they were "very disappointed" with his behavior. In one of the cases, Puig's mother and cousin were in the car with him.

Puig signed a $42 million, seven-year contract in June 2012.

MLB officials and the players union agreed in August on a new comprehensive policy concerning domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse. The agreement followed a series of high-profile domestic violence cases involving NFL players.

Commissioner Rob Manfred was given broad discretion for determining the length of punishment for players for "just cause." There are no maximum or minimum penalties prescribed in the deal. Manfred also is given the authority to suspend a player with pay while legal proceedings are ongoing.

Earlier this month, the commissioner's office said it had started looking into the Oct. 31 arrest of Colorado Rockies shortstop Jose Reyes after an argument with his wife that police said turned physical at a resort in Hawaii.

Reyes was released after posting $1,000 bail and issued a warning citation to have no contact with his wife for three days after the arrest. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of abuse of a family or household member.

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