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Few clues in fatal Detroit party shooting

DETROIT – A wall of silence surrounds a shootout at a block party in Detroit that left a 19-year-old gunman dead and 11 other people wounded, police Chief James Craig said Sunday from the site where about 300 people had barbecued and celebrated hours earlier.

Standing on basketball courts where the shooting happened about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Chief James Craig said officers are seeking two men believed to have exchanged gunfire with the victim, Malik Jones. So far, he said, witnesses and the injured haven’t been much help.

“This is a passionate plea for the neighborhood to say something and step up,” Craig said, standing a few feet from a small child’s chair and a table. “These are urban terrorists ... We are fortunate we don’t have any young children recovering from a gunshot wound.”

Rural area searched after tips of sighting

FRIENDSHIP, N.Y. – Investigators tracking two murder convicts who escaped from a northern New York prison scoured a rural area near the Pennsylvania border Sunday, saying an unconfirmed but credible report of a sighting had shifted the search across the state.

Hundreds of law-enforcement officers walked railroad tracks and checked car trunks as a helicopter flew back and forth over the town of Friendship, where state police said a woman Saturday reported spotting two men who resembled the convicts near a railroad line that runs along a county road.

While state police called the sighting unconfirmed, the intense hunt that had focused for two weeks around a prison near the Canadian border quickly was refocused on a rural, mountainous area 350 miles away, dotted with sheds, trailers, summer homes and other potential hideouts.

Work resumes on troubled telescope

Construction of a $1.4 billion telescope on land considered sacred by some Native Hawaiians will resume Wednesday, according to the nonprofit company behind the project.

Henry Yang, chairman of the Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory Board, in a statement said the board decided to move forward after more than two months of consultations.

The telescope is planned for the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii’s Big Island. It would be one of the world’s largest telescopes.

The company suspended construction in April after law enforcement arrested protesters for blocking the road to the summit and refusing to leave the construction site.

Debt-ravaged Greece talks with creditors

BRUSSELS – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras headed to Brussels late Sunday for a crucial emergency eurozone summit aimed at reaching a deal between Athens and its international creditors that would allow the debt-plagued country to avoid a default and a potentially disastrous exit from the euro.

Tsipras’ departure for Monday’s summit of the 19 eurozone leaders capped a day of intense contacts between many of the major players, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, all bent on keeping Greece within the currency club and avoiding financial chaos.

Greece is facing a June 30 deadline to make a $1.8 billion loan repayment to the International Monetary Fund, which, at present, it would be unable to make. And even bigger payments to the European Central Bank in July. So far, both Greece and the creditors have appeared locked in a ‘who-blinks-first’ contest that has left them unable to bridge the gaps and secure a deal.

On Sunday, Tsipras presented to Juncker, Hollande and Merkel “Greece’s proposal for a mutually beneficial agreement, which will provide a permanent solution and not just postpone tackling the problem,” his press office said in a statement.

However, technical negotiators from the creditors still were waiting in Brussels for a detailed outline of the Greek proposals late Sunday to assess whether they really constitute a breakthrough, a European Union official said.

Associated Press



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