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cording to a news release from law enforcement. Singleton was being held at the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center.
• Robinson died Friday afternoon after he was shot outside Hugine Suites.
• Authorities initially said they were looking for four men who had left campus. Berry said there was no ongoing safety concern for the community but declined to say whether there was still an active manhunt.
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Philippines, Muslim rebels clinch deal to end decades-long insurgency, focus on implementation
• KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- The Philippine government and the country's largest Muslim rebel group completed talks Saturday on a deal to end four decades of fighting that has killed tens of thousands of people and helped foster Islamic extremism in Southeast Asia.
• The accord between Filipino negotiators and the rebel Moro Islamic Liberation Front calls for Muslim self-rule in parts of the southern Philippines in exchange for the deactivation of the rebel force. Military presence in the proposed autonomous region would be restricted.
• Much now will depend on how the accord is enforced, in particular whether the 11,000-strong rebel forces are able to maintain security in areas they would come under their control. At least four other smaller Muslim rebel groups are still fighting Manila's rule in the southern Mindanao region, and could act as spoilers.
• Officials from both sides announced the conclusion of talks in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, which has brokered the yearslong negotiations. The accord and three other pacts signed last year make up a final peace agreement that is to be signed in the Philippine capital, Manila, possibly next month, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said.
• "This will give the just and lasting peace that our brothers in Mindanao are seeking." said Lacierda, referring to the volatile southern region and homeland of minority Muslims in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation.
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Some questions and answers about the history of the president's State of the Union address
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama reports to Congress and the nation Tuesday on the State of the Union, an annual rite in official Washington that (Continued on page 32)
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