4 dead, 2 injured after shootings at high school

4 dead, 2 injured after shootings at high school

TORONTO

A gunman opened fire at a high school and a second location in an aboriginal community in northern Saskatchewan on Friday, leaving four dead and at least two injured, officials said.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said from Davos, Switzerland, that a suspect was in custody. Trudeau initially said five died, but police later corrected that to four.

“This is every parent’s worst nightmare,” he said. “The community is reeling.”

Kevin Janvier told The Associated Press that his 23-year-old daughter Marie, a teacher, was shot dead by the gunman. He said police told him that the gunman first shot two of his siblings before killing his daughter.

N. Korea arrests college student from Ohio

SEOUL, South Korea

North Korea on Friday announced the arrest of a university student from Ohio for what it called a “hostile act” orchestrated by the American government to undermine the authoritarian nation.

In language that mirrors past North Korean claims of outside conspiracies, Pyongyang’s state media said the University of Virginia student, who attended high school outside Cincinnati, entered the country under the guise of a tourist and plotted to destroy North Korean unity with “the tacit connivance of the U.S. government and under its manipulation.” The date of his arrest wasn’t clear.

Court refuses to implement abortion ban in Kansas

WICHITA, Kan.

The Kansas Court of Appeals refused Friday to implement the state’s first-in-the-nation ban on a common second-trimester abortion method, ruling in a split but groundbreaking decision that the conservative state’s constitution protects abortion rights independently from the U.S. Constitution.

The 7-7 ruling – released on the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision – could be used by abortion-rights supporters to challenge other state laws restricting abortion. If the decision is upheld, it would allow state courts to protect a woman’s right to end her pregnancy beyond federal court rulings.

Tie votes uphold the ruling being appealed, meaning Friday’s ruling sides with a Shawnee County judge who put the 2015 law on hold while he considers a lawsuit challenging the ban.

Armed group’s leader balks at FBI talks without media

BURNS, Ore.

The leader of an armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge in Oregon met briefly with a federal agent Friday but left because the agent wouldn’t talk with him in front of the media.

The short meeting occurred as the standoff over federal land-use policies stretches to the three-week mark and as Oregon officials are putting increased pressure on federal authorities to take action against Ammon Bundy’s group.

Bundy arrived at the airport in Burns late Friday morning, where the FBI has set up a staging area. On Thursday, Bundy went to the airport and spoke to an FBI negotiator over the phone. They agreed to speak again Friday, but Bundy left shortly after he arrived because the FBI agent he spoke with said federal authorities wanted any conversation to be private.

Bundy wants face-to-face conversations in front of reporters.

Associated Press