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• Lisandro Barazarte, a photographer with the local newspaper, Notitarde, caught images of several of the men shooting into the crowd while steadying their firearms on their palms.
• "They were practiced shooters," Barazarte said. "More were armed, but didn't fire."
• When it was over, two La Isabelica men were dead: a 22-year-old student, Jesus Enrique Acosta, and a little league baseball coach, Guillermo Sanchez. Witnesses told the AP the first was shot in the head, the second in the back. They said neither was at the barricades when he was killed.
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• BEIRUT (AP) -- Two Spanish journalists were freed after being held captive for six months in Syria by a rogue al-Qaida group, the newspaper for which one of the men worked said Sunday.
• El Mundo said reporter Javier Espinosa and photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova made contact Saturday evening from Turkey, where there were in the care of the military. They were expected in Spain on Sunday.
• It was not clear whether they escaped or were let go by the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, which abducted them near a rebel-held province in eastern Syria in September.
• Syria remains the most dangerous conflict in the world for reporters, partially because of the risk of kidnapping by pro-government forces or rebels. The release of the two Spanish correspondents leaves at least another nine foreign correspondents missing in Syria as well as 10 Syrian reporters.
• Activists, who do much of the on-the-ground reporting in Syria, are also at risk. The press rights group Reporters without Borders says around 20 are held by the Islamic State, while an unknown number are held by the government.
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• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A moderate earthquake that rattled a swath of Southern California forced several dozen people in one community out of their homes after

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