Police: Thai bomber part of a network ... 3 men missing in AK landslide presumed dead ... IS beheads prominent Syrian antiquities scholar

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BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand say the man wanted for allegedly bombing a Bangkok shrine did not act alone. The national chief of police says the bomber is part of "a network." Investigators are looking for the man seen in video leaving a backpack at the downtown shrine where on Monday evening 20 people were killed and 130 others were wounded. Police say the explosive device was contained in a pipe and weighed more than 6 pounds.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Officials in Alaska say the three men missing in a landslide are presumed dead. Fire officials say the search in the Alaska coastal town of Sitka will be a "body recovery effort" once it's safe for crews to dig through the debris. A landslide described as a sea of logs, mud and debris is believed to have trapped the men, and crews were not able to dig at the site Tuesday because of unstable terrain.

BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State extremists have beheaded one of the Syria's most prominent antiquities scholars in the ancient town of Palmyra (pahl-MEER'-uh). Syrian state media and the group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights say 81-year-old Khaled Asaad was beheaded Tuesday in a square outside the town's museum. The head of the Antiquities and Museums Department in Damascus tells state news agency SANA that Asaad's body was then hung from one of the Roman columns at Palmyra's archaeological site.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The longtime pitchman for the Subway sandwich chain reportedly is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to child-pornography charges. Six weeks ago, authorities raided the suburban Indianapolis home of 37-year-old Jared Fogle, seizing electronics and other items. Fox59 reports that the U.S. Attorney's Office in Indianapolis plans to hold a news conference Wednesday.

SEATTLE (AP) — Fire officials in Bremerton, Washington plan to go through the rubble of a Motel 6 to make sure there's no one underneath. An explosion Tuesday night demolished part of the motel, critically injuring a gas company worker. Just minutes before, the acting hotel manager had evacuated the building. She says someone passing by came into her office and said a gas line was leaking at the back of the building.