Five shot, killed at homeless camp
Five people were found shot to death Sunday in a homeless encampment obscured by heavy brush in the shadow of a Long Beach freeway, police said.
Officers received an anonymous call Sunday morning and went to an area between several commercial buildings and freeway ramps. They found five dead adults, all of them gunshot victims, Long Beach Deputy Police Chief Robert Luna said.
Detectives have neither determined a motive nor identified a suspect. WASHINGTON
Nevada governor won’t be charged
Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons, whose first term has been marred by an FBI corruption investigation, has been cleared of wrongdoing and will not be charged in the probe, his attorney said Sunday night.
Gibbons, a former Republican congressman, has been under investigation into whether he improperly received gifts from a software company that received military contracts while he was in Congress. Gibbons steadfastly denied any wrongdoing and said the Justice Department could look as hard as it wanted and wouldn’t find anything inappropriate.
Defense attorney Abbe Lowell said the Justice Department told him that Gibbons would not be charged.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska
Large earthquake shakes ocean floor
U.S. Geological Survey says a significant earthquake has jolted the ocean floor near Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands.
The agency said in a preliminary report that the magnitude-6.1 quake struck the seismically active but sparsely populated island chain at 4:49 a.m. Sunday.
It was centered at a depth of about 39 miles, and 35 miles southwest of the island of Atka, which lies about 1,100 miles southwest of Anchorage.
BOULDER, Colo.
Naked pumpkin runners ticketed
Boulder police have ticketed about a dozen people running naked on the street while sporting freshly gutted pumpkins on their heads as part of an annual Halloween event.
The event known in Boulder as the Naked Pumpkin Run has been held for 10 years. This year it drew a huge crowd, prompting concern from police.
Boulder police Chief Mark Beckner said Friday that officers “wanted to do something before (the event) got out of hand.”