In brief: Airman in N. Dakota kills Wal-Mart worker, then himself
A U.S. airman “with no apparent motive” walked into a Wal-Mart Supercenter in North Dakota early Tuesday and opened fire with a handgun, killing one worker and injuring a second before turning the gun on himself, police said.
Grand Forks police said the shooting a few minutes after 1 a.m. may have been random, with no link found between Marcell Willis, 21, and either the store or the employees. Willis was stationed at Grand Forks Air Force Base, about a dozen miles west of the city.
“We’ve not been able to find any linkage to him and any of the victims,” police Lt. Derik Zimmel said at an afternoon news conference. “There’s no apparent motive that jumps out at this time.”
Proposal for releasing Clinton emails filed
WASHINGTON – The State Department on Tuesday filed a proposal to resume the release of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private account next month.
The agency proposed in a court filing that it would begin posting the emails on the department’s website on June 30 and continue posting them every 60 days, with the goal of making all of them publicly available by Jan. 15, 2016.
U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras is considering a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Jason Leopold, a reporter for Vice News.
The State Department is still reviewing about 55,000 pages of emails from Clinton’s private account. Last Friday it released nearly 300 emails relating to the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.
Flight from Taiwan checked after threat
LOS ANGELES – Someone called in a threat to a flight from Taiwan that landed at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday, but nothing dangerous was found on board, authorities said.
The plane was inspected and its passengers’ luggage was screened as EVA Air Flight 12 sat on the tarmac at LAX, but there was no evidence of a threat, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.
The FBI, airport police and the Los Angeles police bomb squad jointly investigated the threat, which came by telephone. The investigation into the person or group responsible was ongoing.
The threat came a day after at least half a dozen other threats were made by phone to international flights at airports in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
Authorities said Monday’s threats may have come from the same source and did not turn out to be credible.
Photographer known for sensitive work dies
NEW YORK – Documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark, called “a snake charmer of the soul” for her gift of capturing searing images of human vulnerability, has died at age 75.
She died Monday at a New York hospital after a long battle with a blood illness caused by bone marrow failure, her close friend Kelly Cutrone said.
Mark’s subjects ranged from runaway children and heroin addicts to celebrities and world leaders. She also pointed her lens at members of the Ku Klux Klan, a women’s security ward in a mental institution and various celebrities.
Over the decades, “what resulted was, in fact, a lamentation: one of the most delicately shaded studies of vulnerability ever set on film,” wrote the late Time magazine art critic Robert Hughes.
Mark’s work appeared in prominent publications including Life, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. She also published 18 books.