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cated "game-changing" weapons, but not chemical arms. One official said the target was a shipment of advanced, long-range ground-to-ground missiles but was not more specific.
• It was not immediately clear where the attack took place, or whether the air force carried out the strike from Lebanese or Syrian airspace.
• The Israeli officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose information about a secret military operation to the media.
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Funeral home: No one wants to bury Boston bombing suspect; he died of gunshots, blunt trauma
• BOSTON (AP) -- A funeral home director was scrambling to find a cemetery that would bury a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, ignoring protesters gathered outside his business and saying everybody deserves a dignified burial service no matter the circumstances of his or her death.
• Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died from "gunshot wounds of torso and extremities" and blunt trauma to his head and torso, said Worcester funeral home owner Peter Stefan, who has Tsarnaev's body and on Friday read details from his death certificate. The certificate lists the time of his death as 1:35 a.m. on April 19, four days after the deadly bombing, Stefan said.
• Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with authorities who had launched a massive manhunt for him and his brother, ethnic Chechens from Russia who came to the United States about a decade ago. Police have said he ran out of ammunition before his younger brother dragged his body under a vehicle while fleeing.
• Tsarnaev's family was making arrangements Friday for his funeral as investigators searched the woods near a college attended by 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was captured less than a day after his brother's death.
• Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body was released by the state medical examiner Thursday. It initially was taken to a North Attleborough funeral home, where it was greeted by about 20 protesters, before being taken to Stefan's Graham Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, which is familiar with Muslim services.
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Southern California wildfire mushrooms, but weather may aid firefight
• CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) -- A wildfire tearing through a coastal region in Southern California nearly tripled in size as high temperatures fueled the flames, but an (Continued on page 21)
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