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VIRGINIA
FBI agents killed in training accident
Two FBI special agents on the agency’s elite Hostage Rescue Team were killed in a training accident in Virginia. The FBI’s national press office said in a statement Sunday that the accident happened off the coast of Virginia Beach on Friday. No other details were given and the cause is under investigation. The special agents were identified as Christopher Lorek, 41, and Stephen Shaw, 40. The Hostage Rescue Team is part of the Critical Incident Response Group based at Quantico in northern Virginia.
OKLAHOMA
Powerful system spawns tornadoes
A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged roofs and structures near Oklahoma City and kicked up debris in Wichita, Kan. One of several tornadoes from the system leveled several mobile homes in an area southeast of Oklahoma City. Reports of injuries in the mobile home park near Shawnee about 35 miles southeast of Oklahoma City were not immediately confirmed. There also were no immediate reports of injuries caused by a funnel cloud that touched down near Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport late Sunday afternoon. Emergency responders were keeping a close eye on the system in several other states, including Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Texas.
NEVADA
Arrests made in Las Vegas iPad slaying
Two men have been arrested in the killing of a teenage boy over an iPad in Las Vegas, police said Sunday. Jacob Dismont, 18, and Michael Solid, 21, were booked Saturday into the Clark County jail on charges of open murder, robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. Dismont is accused of trying to wrest the tablet away from and dragging Marcos Arenas, 15, toward an SUV when the youth wouldn’t let go of the device. After Dismont re-entered the vehicle and Solid sped away, the teen was dragged until he fell. The vehicle ran over Arenas and he died at a hospital.
ISRAEL
Authorities dispute claim in boy’s death
Israel on Sunday completed an investigation into a decade-old French TV report that claimed Israeli forces killed a Palestinian boy in a gunbattle with Palestinian militants, saying the video was misleading and unfairly blamed Israel. France 2 network’s images from Sept. 30, 2000, days after a Palestinian uprising erupted, allegedly showed the death of Mohammed al-Dura, cowering with his father during intense gunfire between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. The circumstances remain in dispute.
RUSSIA
American accused of spying heads home
The U.S. Embassy employee accused of spying in Moscow flew out of Russia on Sunday, five days after he was ordered to leave the country, NTV television reported. The Kremlin-loyal TV station broadcast video Sunday evening showing Ryan Fogle, 29, going through passport control and security at Sheremetyevo International Airport. He also was pictured in the company of embassy staff as he wheeled a suitcase into the Moscow airport. The U.S. Embassy on Sunday again refused to comment on the case.
NIGERIA
17 killed during offensive, military says
Nigeria’s military said Sunday its offensive against insurgents in the country’s northeast killed at least 14 suspected Islamic extremists and three soldiers. Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, a military spokesman, did not say exactly where the fighting occurred but that about 20 people were arrested. There was no independent confirmation of the military’s claims.
NEW YORK
Bias shooting suspect charged with murder
A man who police say hurled homophobic slurs at a gay man on a Manhattan street before firing a single fatal shot to his head appeared in court Sunday to face a charge of murder as a hate crime. Elliot Morales is also charged with criminal possession of a weapon and menacing, according to the complaint filed Sunday by the Manhattan district attorney’s office. Authorities said the Greenwich Village resident used a silver revolver to kill Mark Carson, 32, early Saturday as he walked with a companion in Morales’ neighborhood in lower Manhattan. Morales is being held without bail pending another court appearance on Thursday.
CALIFORNIA
Fate of pot shops left to voters
Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime. Voters head to the polls Tuesday to decide how the city should handle the issue with three competing measures that seek to either limit the number of dispensaries or allow new ones to open and join an estimated several hundred others that now operate. Election Day in the nation’s second-largest city comes just two weeks after a pivotal state Supreme Court decision gave cities and counties the authority to ban pot shops.
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