Kenyan forces slow to respond?...Egypt kills extremist leader...Palestinians reject Israel transfer

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GARISSA, Kenya (AP) — There are suggestions today that Kenya's security forces were slow to respond to the Islamic extremist attack on a university that left 148 people dead. Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper reports it took police seven hours to get a special tactical unit into the school. Once there, it took them only 30 minutes to kill the four al-Shabab gunmen and stop the siege.

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian security official says troops have killed extremist leader in a shootout at a Cairo apartment. Hammam Mohamed Attia was a founder and leader of Ajnad Misr, or Soldiers of Egypt. The group claimed responsibility for a bombing on a bridge in central Cairo earlier today that killed a policeman and wounded at least two passers-by. The official says security forces had been following Attia's movements before raiding the apartment at dawn.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an Israeli transfer of millions of dollars in tax revenue. Abbas says he ordered the money returned because "they deducted one third" to pay for utility bills Palestinians owe. Under existing agreements, Israel collects taxes and customs on behalf of the Palestinians and then transfers the sums. That revenue accounts for about 70 percent of the Palestinians' budget.

UNDATED (AP) — The matriarch of the high-flying Wallenda family has died. Jenny Wallenda was the oldest daughter of high wire walker Karl Wallenda and grandmother of daredevil Nik Wallenda. She was part of the family act, walking the high wire as an adult and riding bareback as a child. Wallenda had to deal with tragedy over the decades, her husband killed in 1962 when a human pyramid collapsed and her father Karl falling to his death in 1978. She died last night at her Florida home. Jenny Wallenda was 87.

PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) — Police in Paramus, New Jersey, are trying to determine who owns a "disorderly" goat they corralled yesterday. Police say the small white goat had been "head-butting a door." The goat apparently is being cared for at a local animal facility.