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semi-automatic rifle, walked calmly through the Santa Monica College campus after killing his father, brother and another person, authorities said. He would kill a woman outside the library moments later, before dying from police gunfire.
• Trena Johnson, a longtime administrative assistant working in the dean's office, looked out the window around noon Friday and saw a man with a "very large gun."
• "We saw a woman get shot in the head," said Johnson. "I haven't been able to stop shaking."
• Before the rampage was over five people, including the gunman, were killed and five more were injured, police said.
• The violence, which lasted just about 20 minutes, started about mile away when the gunman opened fire at a house where two bodies were found, police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said.
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Rival Koreas agree to meet at village straddling border in bid to reduce tensions
• SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North and South Korea will meet Sunday at a village straddling their heavily armed border as the sides try to lower tension and restore projects once seen as symbols of their rapprochement, officials said.
• The North delivered its agreement Saturday to hold talks at Panmunjom through a Red Cross line restored a day earlier, the Unification Ministry said in a text message. Pyongyang had earlier favored its border city of Kaesong as the venue.
• The agreement to hold the first government-level contact on the peninsula since early 2011 is the latest sign that tension is easing between the countries after Pyongyang threatened to attack South Korea and the United States with nuclear missiles earlier this year.
• It also comes as President Barack Obama meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in California. Xi late last month met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's special envoy in Beijing and received a statement from him that Pyongyang was willing to return to dialogue.
• Xi will meet South Korean President Park Geun-hye later this month.
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Obama says US, China in 'uncharted waters' on cyber issues; leaders to hold 2nd day of talks
• RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) -- The United States and China are in "uncharted waters" as they tackle the contentious issue of cybersecurity, President Barack (Continued on page 21)
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