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In brief: President Barack Obama selects site for library

From wire reports
 Photo: DELIL SOULEIMAN, Stringer
﻿A double bomb attack claimed by ISIS killed at least 67 people including civilians and left hundreds wounded in﻿ Qamishli, Syria, ﻿on Wednesday.﻿
﻿A double bomb attack claimed by ISIS killed at least 67 people...


Obama selects site for library

CHICAGO - President Barack Obama's presidential library will be built in a park on Chicago's South Side along the shores of Lake Michigan and a short walk from the university where Obama once taught, a person familiar with the selection process told the Associated Press on Wednesday.

The Barack Obama Foundation decided to build the library at Jackson Park near the University of Chicago, according to a person briefed on the selection. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

The park was selected over nearby Washington Park, which also was proposed by the University of Chicago, where Obama taught constitutional law.



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Girls who tried killing friend will be tried as adults

MADISON - A Wisconsin state appeals court ruled Wednesday that two girls accused of trying to kill their classmate in an attempt to please the fictional horror character Slender Man should be tried as adults.

Investigators say the girls, who were 12 at the time of the attack in 2014, plotted for months before luring their classmate into some woods after a birthday sleepover and repeatedly stabbing her. The victim, who was also 12, was found along a road, bleeding from 19 stab wounds that nearly killed her.

The girls have been charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide and, if convicted, could go to prison for up to 65 years. As juveniles, they could be incarcerated for up to three years and then supervised until age 18.


ISIS attack kills 67, injures 185 as numbers still rise

DAMASCUS - At least 67 people were killed and 185 wounded Wednesday in an attack claimed by Islamic State in the northeastern Syrian town of Qamishli, medical sources in the Kurdish-controlled town said.

Rescue teams are still searching for victims under the rubble of the buildings hit by the attack, the sources added.

Kurdish news agency Rudaw said the explosion was the result of a double attack. The first was caused by a truck loaded with explosives that targeted a center run by the Kurdish police force.

A second blast hit a street in the east of the town that is home to the local defense administration, Rudaw said.


Police arrest boy

in chatting with Munich shooter

BERLIN - German authorities have arrested a 15-year-old boy who they suspect of having planned a rampage and also believe was in contact with a teenager who killed nine people in Munich last week.

The boy was arrested on Monday night and sent to a psychiatric facility, prosecutors in Ludwigsburg said Wednesday. A witness had told police that he came across an online chat between the suspect and the Munich shooter.

Also Wednesday, police have raided a mosque believed to be a "hot spot" for Islamic extremists in the city of Hildesheim.

Officials said that the apartments of eight leading members of the "German-speaking Islam Circle Hildesheim" organization were also searched Wednesday, news agency dpa reported.
