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the VA," added Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid.
• In a rare moment of agreement with Reid, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell also was upbeat about the prospects of the veterans bill.
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Families hoped for children's safety during 3-hour wait after deadly Oregon school shooting
• TROUTDALE, Ore. (AP) -- They stopped in fire lanes, on medians, in spaces so tight one man wedged his sedan between two cars and climbed out of his sun roof. They double-, triple- or quadruple-parked, spilling into driveways and crosswalks, disregarding every traffic law.
• The loved ones of the children at Reynolds High School in the Portland, Oregon, suburb of Troutdale knew that a student was shot to death during the second-to-last day of school. And they knew the shooter was dead.
• They also knew that the 3,000 children who survived would be waiting for them at a grocery store parking lot a mile away.
• Details spilled out in fits and starts on Tuesday. The shooting started in a gym detached from the main school building. A 14-year-old boy named Emilio Hoffman was fatally shot in the boys' locker room. Physical education teacher Todd Rispler also was in the gym and was grazed by a bullet.
• But he escaped serious injury and managed to alert school officials of the shooter.
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Special K: Leonard has a career night and Spurs top Heat 111-92 in Game 3 of NBA Finals
• MIAMI (AP) -- The last time Kawhi Leonard scored this many points in a real basketball game, he was starring at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California.
• Never in college.
• Never in the NBA, either.
• Until Tuesday night, that is.
• And on the same floor where he missed a free throw that could have cost the San Antonio Spurs the title a year ago, he more than atoned in Game 3 of these NBA Finals. Leonard scored 29 points, his highest total since those high school days, to lead a display of offensive wizardry that carried the Spurs to a 111-92 win (Continued on page 25)
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