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2 students shot, suspect dead in Butte County school shooting


2 students shot, suspect dead in Butte County school shooting

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PALERMO – Authorities say a suspect is dead and two students are hurt after a shooting at a school in the Northern California community of Palermo on Wednesday.

The Butte County Sheriff’s Office says the incident happened around 1 p.m. at the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists.

One person was found by deputies with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, with the sheriff’s office confirming that the suspected shooter had died. Two students were also found shot; their conditions were not known at this time, the sheriff’s office says, but both have been taken to local hospitals. 

The suspect has not been identified at this time. It’s also unclear if the shooting was random, the sheriff’s office says, but it doesn’t appear that the suspect had a connection to the campus.  

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Scene of the shooting investigation. 

Parents are being told to meet their children at the Oroville Church of the Nazarene at 2238 Monte Vista Avenue. 

Due to the investigation, California Highway Patrol is diverting northbound traffic on Highway 70 at E. Gridley Road west to Highway 99. Southbound Highway 70 is also closed at Power House Hill Road, with traffic being diverted to Lone Tree Road. 

The school serves about 35 students from kindergarten to eighth grade. 

Palermo is a town about 25 miles north of Marysville and 65 miles north of Sacramento.



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Judge rejects Justice Dept plea deal with Boeing over fatal 737 Max plane crashes

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A federal judge in Texas rejected a proposed plea agreement between the Justice Department and Boeing that would have settled the U.S. government’s claims against the company, after crashes of two 737 Max jetliners that killed 346 people, according to a court order issued Thursday. 

In his ruling, Judge Reed O’Connor took issue with both a lack of judicial oversight and certain diversity requirements included in the deal’s independent monitoring process and ordered the parties to provide the court with a plan for possible ways forward early next month. 

The federal government’s proposed agreement with airplane manufacturing giant over the deadly crashes included various provisions, including an admission of guilt to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and a $243.6 million fine — much less than the billions the families of the victims had requested. The deal would also have required Boeing to spend $455 million on safety programs and to work with an independent monitor who would oversee the company’s progress. 

Investigators alleged in court records that leading up to the crashes, Boeing deceived federal officials who regulated the planes. In 2021, Boeing and the Justice Department entered into a deferred prosecution agreement, which meant the criminal charge would have been dropped if Boeing had complied with the terms of the deal. But earlier this year, federal prosecutors informed the court that Boeing had not followed through on all of the requirements and intended to move forward with the case. 

By July, after weeks of negotiations, Boeing and the Justice Department settled on the proposed plea agreement, prompting an outcry from families of those who died in the crashes. At the time, CBS News reported the deal only covered wrongdoing by Boeing tied to the crashes and did not give the company immunity for other incidents, including a door panel that blew off a Max jetliner during an Alaska Airlines flight in January. According to a Justice Department official, the proposed agreement also did not cover any current or former Boeing officials, only the corporation. 

Attorneys for some of the victims’ families opposed the deal, arguing the “rotten” agreement with the government did not justly remedy the families’ claims against Boeing. In court filings, they accused Boeing of more criminality and urged stricter penalties, harsher monitoring and recognition of the lives lost.  

In rejecting the plea agreement, the judge took aim at diversity, equity and inclusion considerations that the parties said they would take when hiring an independent monitor. He wrote that he was “concerned with the Government’s shifting and contradictory explanations of how the plea agreement’s diversity-and-inclusion provision will practically operate in this case.” 

Judge O’Connor had previously raised this issue and in responsive court filings, the Justice Department defended the language, arguing it predated the Boeing agreement. “This new language reflected not a change in policy but rather a principle that has always governed the process: that selection of a monitor must be based solely on merit, from the broadest possible pool of qualified candidates,” they said. 

O’Connor ruled Thursday that the language was inappropriate: “In a case of this magnitude, it is in the utmost interest of justice that the public is confident this monitor selection is done based solely on competency. The parties’ DEI efforts only serve to undermine this confidence in the Government and Boeing’s ethics and anti-fraud efforts.” 

The judge also wrote that the Justice Department’s previous efforts to oversee Boeing’s conduct “failed” and said the independent monitor provision in the proposed deal did not go far enough to include the court in the process. 

“At this point, the public interest requires the Court to step in. Marginalizing the Court in the selection and monitoring of the independent monitor as the plea agreement does undermines public confidence in Boeing’s probation, fails to promote respect for the law, and is therefore not in the public interest,” O’Connor wrote, “Accordingly, the Court cannot accept the plea agreement.” 

The Justice Department said it’s reviewing the decision. Boeing did not immediately respond to requests for comment. 

In a statement, Paul Cassell, an attorney for some of the victims’ families, told CBS News, “Judge O’Connor has recognized that this was a cozy deal between the Government and Boeing that failed to focus on the overriding concerns – holding Boeing accountable for its deadly crime and ensuring that nothing like this happens again in the future.”

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7.0 magnitude earthquake hits off Northern California coast, tsunami warning issued

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HUMBOLDT COUNTY – A large earthquake struck off the coast of Humboldt County on Thursday morning, prompting a tsunami warning for part of the North Coast.

According to the US Geological Survey, the quake struck around 10:44 a.m., west of Petrolia, California in the Pacific Ocean. A Tsunami Warning has been issued for 45 miles southwest of Eureka. 

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Shake map provided by the US Geological Survey of the earthquake. 

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The earthquake had been registered preliminarily as having a magnitude of 6.6, but USGS updated it a 7.0.

A significant apparent aftershock that registered as a 5.8-magnitude quake hit minutes later near Cobb, California in Lake County, according to the USGS.

Residents up and down the Northern California coast, as well as into the Central Valley, reported feeling shaking. 



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