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A man suspected of making threats against President Clinton is dead after a standoff with police near Dayton, Ohio.
36-year-old Michael Maurer shot two sheriff's deputies who came to the door of his motel room yesterday to question him.
Neither was seriously wounded.
The confrontation ended when police fired tear gas into the room and then rushed in.
They found Maurer and his mother both dead, victims of an apparent murder-suicide.
The Secret Service says Maurer claimed to know about plots to assassinate the president.
The plots were directed at President Bill Clinton and that was the reason for our interest.
However, as they say, the individual himself was not involved or did not claim to be involved with those plots.
Officials say Maurer showed signs of mental illness when they talked to him through the motel door.
Two suspects in a deadly carjacking have made their first appearance in a California courtroom.
Raymond Butler is accused of robbing and killing two Japanese students last Friday.
If convicted, he could get the death penalty.
Alberto Reigosa is charged with being an accessory to robbery and receiving stolen property.
The two students were shot in the head in a parking lot in San Pedro.
They both died Sunday after being taken off life support machines.
Gun control advocates are applauding a new California law making knowledge of firearm safety a prerequisite to buying a gun.
Ann McDermott has the tale.
It's been estimated that half of all the households in the U.S. have guns in them.
That's a lot of people with a lot of guns, a lot of people who know how to use them.
But a lot do not know how to use them or they don't know all the basics of safe gun ownership.