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GARISSA, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's Interior Ministry says one of the gunmen who slaughtered 148 people at a college on Thursday was the law-school-educated son of a government official. The official had reported his son missing last year and feared he had gone to Somalia. Experts say Kenyans make up the largest number of foreign fighters in al-Shabab, the Islamic extremist group based in Somalia that's claimed responsibility for the attack.
BEIRUT (AP) — Residents continue to flee a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria's capital. Islamic State militants stormed the camp on Wednesday, and activists say they've been fighting battles with Palestinian militants since. Meanwhile, government forces have been shelling the camp and carrying out airstrikes. An activist based in an area just south of Damascus says residents have been fleeing at night as the fighting eases.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California farmers consume 80 percent of the state's water, but they've been spared from the mandatory cutbacks on water use. Gov. Jerry Brown tells ABC's "This Week" that's justified because farmers aren't using water frivolously on their lawns or taking long showers. He adds that the state's farmers are "providing most of the fruits and vegetables" America ships to the world.
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina say an Amtrak train struck and killed a man and a woman who were on the tracks this morning. Police say the accident happened in Durham, when a train heading north from Charlotte to New York City hit the pair. None of the 166 passengers on the train was injured.
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — A florist in Washington state who was fined $1,000 for refusing to sell a same-sex couple flowers for their wedding and also faces a consumer-protection lawsuit has netted more than $85,000 in a crowdfunding campaign. The Seattle Times reports that nearly half of the money came in the last several days, as a similar campaign raised more than $800,000 for an Indiana pizzeria whose owners took a similar stand.
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