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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Students at Ohio State University have been warned that there's an active shooter on campus. And the advice from university officials is "Run Hide Fight." That's standard protocol for an active shooter situation -- it means flee and take shelter if you can, but try to disrupt the shooter if your life is in imminent danger. The university in Columbus followed up with another tweet that said: "Continue to shelter in place in north campus area." Fire officials say seven people have been sent to the hospital. With nearly 60,000 students at its main campus, Ohio State is one of the nation's largest universities.
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban soldiers have fired off 21-gun salutes to mark the start of services paying tribute to Fidel Castro. Uniformed troops fired artillery pieces at 9 a.m. from the Morro fort in Havana and from a fort in the eastern city of Santiago. The salutes mark the opening of a tribute in Havana, where tens of thousands of Cubans are filing through three rooms in the capital's memorial to national hero Jose Marti (mahr-TEE'). Posters of Castro as a young guerrilla stand alongside flowers and soldiers.
HAVANA (AP) — The first regularly scheduled commercial flight in more than 50 years from the United States to Havana has landed. Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight arriving at 8:25 a.m. today cheered as the plane touched ground at Jose Marti International Airport. The flight's arrival comes as Cubans began week-long memorial services for revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. U.S. flights to other cities in Cuba began earlier.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Potential jurors are being questioned in the federal death penalty trial of a man charged with fatally shooting nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church. A first panel of eight white women and two white men were called into the courtroom this morning for one-on-one questioning by the judge presiding over Dylann Roof's trial. The questioning came moments after the judge ruled that Roof can represent himself on charges including hate crimes. The judge said he would reluctantly accept what he called the "unwise" decision by Roof, which also came against his lawyers' advice.
GENEVA (AP) — A World Trade Organization panel has ruled that Washington state offered billions in illegal tax breaks to plane maker Boeing. And the panel says the U.S. government must take action to end the plans within months. The European Union sees it as a landmark victory in the longstanding battle between Boeing and Airbus, the two companies that dominate the global market for airplanes.
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