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current policies.
• In the House, Budget Committee Republicans approved a 2014 budget plan late Wednesday with an entirely opposite approach. It whacks spending by $4.6 trillion over the coming decade and promises sweeping cuts to Medicaid and domestic agencies while setting a path to balancing the government's books within 10 years. The party-line vote sent the measure to the full House for a vote next week.
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Gunman's rampage kills 4, injures 2 and shatters peace in upstate NY villages; motive unknown
• HERKIMER, N.Y. (AP) -- Residents of an upstate New York village are puzzled about why a 64-year-old loner went into a barbershop and opened fire in a burst of violence that would eventually leave four dead and two critically wounded.
• New York state police early Thursday were waiting out suspected gunman Kurt Myers, who was holed up in an abandoned building.
• Police say Myers' rampage started with a fire in his apartment in the nearby village of Mohawk Wednesday morning. He then drove to a barber shop around the corner and used a shotgun to kill two customers and wound two others. At a car care shop about a mile away, he killed two more. Police have no motive.
• Resides say they barely knew Myers, who rarely spoke. One person calls him "just an odd little man."
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Khmer Rouge co-founder Ieng Sary dies during trial over atrocities that killed 1.7M Cambodians
• PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Ieng Sary, who co-founded the brutal Khmer Rouge movement in 1970s, was its public face abroad and decades later became one of its few leaders to be put on trial for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians, died Thursday morning before the case could be finished. He was 87.
• His death before any verdict was reached in the lengthy case dashed hopes among survivors and court prosecutors that he would ever be punished for his alleged war crimes stemming from the darkest chapter in the country's history.
• Ieng Sary was being tried by a joint Cambodian-international tribunal along with two other former Khmer Rouge leaders, both in their 80s, and there are fears that they, too, could also die before justice is served. Ieng Sary's wife, former Social Affairs Minister Ieng Thirith, had also been charged but was ruled unfit to stand trial last year because she suffered from a degenerative mental illness, probably Alz (Continued on page 28)
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