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POLICE IDENTIFY UPS DRIVERS KILLED BY CO-WORKER

Officials have identified the three men killed after a UPS driver opened fire during a meeting at company warehouse in San Francisco. San Francisco's chief medical examiner identified the victims as 50-year-old Benson Louie and 56-year-old Wayne Chan, both of San Francisco; and 46-year-old Michael Lefiti, of Hercules. Police say the three UPS drivers were killed by 38-year-old Jimmy Lam, who fatally shot himself in the head in front of officers. A motive in the killings has not been determined. 7:30 p.m. A union official says the gunman who shot and killed three people at a UPS warehouse in San Francisco had filed a grievance complaining that he was working excessive overtime. Joseph Cilia, an official with a local Teamsters Union, says Jimmy Lam's grievance filed in March requested that UPS relieve him of working overtime going forward. Still, Cilia says Lam wasn't angry, and he could not understand why he would open fire on his colleagues at a morning meeting on Wednesday...

FLOYD MAYWEATHER AND CONOR MCGREGOR AGREE TO FIGHT

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Two years after Conor McGregor declared in an Esquire interview that he would "kill" the boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. in "less than 30 seconds," it appears that McGregor, a mixed martial arts star, will get his chance. The two fighters announced their long-awaited fight on social media on Wednesday, with Mayweather posting a promotional video for the bout on Instagram along with the caption "IT'S OFFICIAL!!!" and McGregor writing on Twitter, "THE FIGHT IS ON." IT'S OFFICIAL!!! https://t.co/ND07Ixugs2 pic.twitter.com/JpqFW5WbcB — Floyd Mayweather  (@FloydMayweather) June 14, 2017 THE FIGHT IS ON. pic.twitter.com/KhW0u3jRft — Conor McGregor  (@TheNotoriousMMA) June 14, 2017 McGregor, the Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight champion, agreed to the fight last month, but negotiations over Mayweather's terms had been considered more difficult. Their pay-per-view fight is expected to generate huge amounts of money. The chief executive ...