Afghanistan pullout plan...Libya evacuation contingency...Campus grief

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to reduce U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan from 32,000 to 10,000 after this year. Nearly all the rest of the forces would be withdrawn by the close of 2016. He said today that American forces have struck significant blows against al-Qaida's leadership and eliminated Osama bin Laden. The drawdown is contingent on Afghanistan's government signing a stalled bilateral security agreement.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy warship USS Bataan (buh-TAN') has moved into the Mediterranean Sea and could be used, if needed, for any possible evacuation of American personnel from Libya. Pentagon officials say the Bataan, an amphibious assault ship, is not near Libya and isn't expected to be positioned off its coast. A renegade Libyan general has launched a military offensive against Islamists and their allied militias in Libya, which has been plagued by lawlessness since the death of dictator Moammar Gadhafi (MOO'-ah-mar gah-DAH'-fee).

GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — It's a day of mourning at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as the college community deals with Friday night's rampage that took the lives of six of its students. Classes were canceled for mourning and reflection. Flowers and candles are being left at a makeshift memorial. Elliot Rodger killed six people and injured 13 others in the shooting and stabbing attacks Friday night. He apparently shot himself to death after a shootout with deputies.

MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — Four people have been found dead in a home near Mission Viejo, California, about 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The dead people were only described as two males and two females and Orange County authorities haven't said how they may be related.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The son of a snake-handling Kentucky preacher who died from a snakebite says he's recovering from his own rattlesnake wound. Cody Coots told the Lexington Herald-Leader he was bitten on a finger yesterday as he removed snakes from a cage. Coots says he declined medical treatment from an ambulance crew. Instead, he says he relied on prayer for healing. He's a fourth-generation snake handler and had been bitten five times previously. His father, Jamie Coots, died of a snakebite in February.