Saturday, November 14, 2015
FBI: Motive in shooting may never be released
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
The public may never know what motivated a 24-year-old Chattanooga man to kill four Marines and a sailor in an attack on Chattanooga’s U.S. Naval and Marine Reserve Center last July.
Investigators have said Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez was a homegrown violent extremist but have not offered more details about what motivated the attack that began at a military recruiting center and ended when Abdulazeez was shot to death by police who followed him to the reserve center.
“We’re still trying to make sure we understand Abdulazeez, his motivations and associations, in a really good way,” FBI Director James Comey told reporters during a visit to Nashville’s FBI field office Friday.
Comey said he understands the public interest in the shooting, but he did not know whether there would ever be a public report on it.
Utah judge reverses order to take baby from lesbian couple
PRICE, Utah
A Utah lesbian couple said Friday they are relieved after finding out they will be able to keep a baby girl they have been raising as foster parents.
The married couple spoke Friday, hours after a judge reversed his ruling to take the 9-month-old child and place her with a heterosexual couple for her well-being.
“We’re just happy we don’t have to say goodbye to her on Tuesday,” April Hoagland told The Associated Press. “That’s a big relief.”
Hoagland and Beckie Peirce said they are grateful for the nationwide support their case received after Judge Scott Johansen ordered the baby removed.
Tour bus crashes, injuring 20 people
SAN FRANCISCO
A double-decker tourist bus careened wildly out of control Friday in San Francisco’s crowded Union Square, running down a bicyclist, at least two pedestrians and striking several cars before it plowed into scaffolding lining a construction site. Twenty people were hurt, including six critically.
Twelve people suffered minor injuries in the crash that happened just before 3 p.m., San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said. The others suffered moderate injuries.
Union Square was crowded with shoppers and tourists when, according to eyewitnesses, the bus came roaring across two city blocks at a high rate of speed. It struck several moving vehicles in its path as well as the bicyclist and the two pedestrians, the latter ending up trapped underneath the vehicle after it plowed into the scaffolding.
Lebanon mourns victims of deadly suicide bombings
BEIRUT
Schools and universities across Lebanon were shuttered Friday as the country mourned victims of twin suicide bombings that struck a crowded neighborhood south of the capital.
The bombings Thursday killed at least 43 people and wounded more than 200 others, shattering a relative calm that has held for more than a year despite the civil war raging next door in Syria.
The extremist Islamic State group claimed the attack on the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Burj al-Barajneh. The heavily populated district is part of the southern suburb of Beirut known as Dahyeh where the militant Hezbollah group holds sway.
Associated Press