The Columbus Dispatch

2 dead in suspected murder-suicide in Texas Swamped near St. Louis

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IRVING, Texas — Two people died Wednesday in an apparent murder-suicide at a Texas community college, prompting an active-shooter alert that instructed students and employees to barricade themselves in rooms. It was the second deadly attack on a Texas campus this week.

Irving police spokesman James McLellan said it doesn’t appear anyone else was hurt in the shooting at North Lake College, a two-year public school in suburban Dallas. The college said classes will not resume until Friday.

Irving police said on Twitter : “There appears to be no continuing threat but police will continue to search to make the campus safe.”

The names of the gunman and the woman have not been released.

North Lake College had issued an alert to students late Wednesday morning telling them to barricade themselves in the nearest room and wait for further instructio­ns from police. Broadcast images showed students rushing from campus buildings as police swarmed the area. Officers with their weapons drawn cautiously moved toward campus buildings. declaratio­n late Tuesday that he was introduced to Murray by Delvonn Heckard, who filed a lawsuit last month claiming he was sexually abused by Murray in the 1980s when Heckard was a teenager.

The man made the declaratio­n from jail, where Heckard’s attorney said he was being held on drug charges. harassment” of Israel had a price. Speaking at a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, Netanyahu says Israel will not sit idly by as a U.N. organizati­on tries to negate its sovereignt­y in Jerusalem.

The UNESCO resolution criticized Israeli excavation­s in east Jerusalem as a violation of internatio­nal law. Israel has long complained about bias at U.N. forums, feeling outnumbere­d by Arab nations and their supporters.

 ?? [ROBERT COHEN/ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH] ?? A deck that was swept away from a mobile home by floodwater­s sits in the middle of a street in Pacific, Mo., near St. Louis on Wednesday. Heavy rains have swollen rivers to record levels in parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois and Oklahoma....
[ROBERT COHEN/ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH] A deck that was swept away from a mobile home by floodwater­s sits in the middle of a street in Pacific, Mo., near St. Louis on Wednesday. Heavy rains have swollen rivers to record levels in parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois and Oklahoma....

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