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Suspect dead after shooting at Northern California school; 2 students hurt, sheriff’s office says
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.
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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Washington — President Biden on Sunday called the fall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad a “historic moment of opportunity,” and he pledged to support the country and its neighbors against any threats.
“At long last, the Assad regime has fallen,” Mr. Biden said at the White House, hours after opposition forces entered Damascus and took control of the country.
Mr. Biden pledged to work alongside partners and stakeholders in Syria to “help them seize an opportunity to manage the risk.” The president also said he’ll send senior officials to the region, help to ensure stability and protect U.S. personnel and will engage with Syrian groups to “establish a transition away from the Assad regime” and toward an independent and sovereign Syria.
Mr. Biden says the administration is “clear eyed” about the possibility that ISIS may try to gain control amid a power vacuum, but he said that “we will not let that happen.” He noted that the U.S. conducted precision airstrikes within Syria targeting ISIS camps and operatives.
“Some of the rebel groups that took down Assad have their own grim record of terrorism and human right abuses,” the president said, adding that the U.S. would assess their actions going forward.
He called on opposition groups to “seek a role in governing Syria” and demonstrate their commitment to Syria’s people, the rule of law and protection of minorities.
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