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ANTIGO, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin school administrator says it appears that a gunman who shot two people outside a high school prom intended to go into the dance and open fire. Officials with the Unified School District of Antigo (AN'-tih-goh) say the gunman had a high-powered rifle and a large ammunition clip. But after wounding the two students outside, police posted in the parking lot fatally shot him. The gunman has been identified as an 18-year-old former student.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The FBI says two deputy U.S. marshals and an FBI agent suffered non-life-threatening injuries last night when they came under fire while trying to arrest a robbery suspect at a Kansas hotel. The FBI says during the gunfire, a fire broke out in one of the hotel rooms, where authorities later found an unidentified body.
PARIS (AP) — French police say they are looking for a man who attacked a soldier with a box cutter in the eastern city of Strasbourg. A local government official told Europe 1 radio the incident happened in Strasbourg's train station last evening. The official says the soldiers pushed back the Arabic-speaking aggressor, who managed to escape. The soldiers were patrolling the station as part of an ongoing operation in France to support police following last year's Paris attacks.
HANNOVER, Germany (AP) — A day after North Korea's foreign minister told The Associated Press that his country is ready to halt its nuclear tests if the United States suspends its annual military exercises with South Korea, President Barack Obama says Washington isn't taking the proposal seriously. At a news conference in Germany, Obama said North Korea would "have to do better than that."
HANNOVER, Germany (AP) — President Barack Obama is praising high-tech trade, as well as beer, in remarks opening the world's largest industrial technology trade fair in Germany. The president marveled at high-tech advances that have even produced a car created with a 3-D printer. And he noted that 2016 is the 500th anniversary of Germany's "beer purity law" that permits only certain ingredients. He said he just might want to join in that celebration.
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