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NEW YORK (AP) — The families of those killed in the Nine Eleven terror attacks will gather at the memorial plaza in New York Friday morning for a 14th anniversary ceremony. There'll be a traditional tolling of bells, moments of silence and the reading of the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed. In western Pennsylvania, the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville will mark the completion of its visitors center. President Barack Obama will observe the anniversary with a visit to Fort Meade, Maryland.
DOWNEY, Calif. (AP) — An armed man who led police on a long car chase and then ran into a crowded California restaurant is dead after a shooting involving a LA County sheriff's SWAT team. Authorities haven't yet confirmed whether the man was shot by the SWAT team or if he killed himself Thursday night. Witnesses say the gunman ran inside Chris and Pitt's Barbecue restaurant in Downey, firing shots into the air and telling women and children to leave.
PHOENIX (AP) — Police in Phoenix confirm that there've been 11 vehicles struck in a series of freeway shootings. Most of them happened along Interstate 10. There've been no injuries, except for a girl cut by a shattered car window. Authorities are appealing for help through social media, news conferences, TV interviews and freeway billboards. Helicopters have been flying up and down the interstate and officers have been monitoring live surveillance video from every freeway in metro Phoenix.
JOSO, Japan (AP) — Rescue workers near Tokyo are searching for 22 people missing in floods that washed away homes and forced some people to rooftops. Dozens of residents in Joso city were airlifted out by military helicopters Friday morning after waiting overnight to be rescued. On Thursday, rising waters of a river broke through a flood berm during unusually heavy rains and water gushed into the city. The water is starting to subside.
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge in New York says a man accused of killing his hedge-fund founder father over an argument about his allowance is not mentally fit to stand trial and may be sent to a psychiatric facility as early as next week. Thirty-year-old Tommy Gilbert allegedly shot his father in January and then tried to make it appear as if the 70-year-old man had killed himself. Thomas Gilbert Sr. had worked on Wall Street for more than 40 years and founded Wainscott Capital Partners Fund.
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