1 Workplace shooting: The man who shot and killed three co-workers at a lumber company in Star, N.C., died Saturday from injuries suffered from a self-inflicted wound, authorities said. Ronald Dean Davis, 50, went home after the rampage Friday and shot himself. He was found alive but died hours later at a hospital.
2 Storm tracker retiring: Bill Read, 62, the director of the National Hurricane Center, announced Saturday that he plans to retire June 1. Read has been in the post since 2008. The Miami-based hurricane center is a unit of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The search for a replacement will begin immediately.
3 Notable notes: A personal check that Abraham Lincoln wrote the day before he was assassinated is among dozens that were discovered by an Ohio bank. Seventy checks were found in a vault at Huntington Bank's Columbus headquarters, including checks signed by George Washington, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Thomas Edison. Some are being displayed at branches throughout the state. The Lincoln check had been made out to "self" for $800.
4 Gun control: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has thrown out a lawsuit challenging new reporting requirements for gun dealers that the Obama administration says are needed to help staunch the flow of powerful rifles to violent Mexican drug gangs. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer ruled Friday that the new rules were a reasonable law enforcement tactic. The suit stemmed from reporting requirements that required gun dealers in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas to alert federal officials to sales of multiple semiautomatic rifles to the same person within five business days.
5 Bulger story: Actor Mark Wahlberg told Boston's WAAF-FM that James "Whitey" Bulger has reached out to him and that he's considering a jailhouse meeting. But victims' relatives are criticizing the actor's interest in the reputed former mob boss. Wahlberg, who grew up in Bulger's home area of Boston, speculated Bulger wants to give him rights to his story. Bulger, 82, is accused of participating in 19 murders before fleeing in 1995, allegedly after his FBI handler tipped him that an indictment was coming. He was caught in Southern California last year after 16 years on the run.
6 Procession crash: Police and motorcyclists escorting the body of a fallen soldier home from Afghanistan stopped Saturday to pull four people - including 6-year-old twins - from a burning Jeep after a crash in Valparaiso, Ind. The Jeep was rear-ended by a pickup, police said. It caught fire and crossed the median in front of the procession for Spc. Robert Tauteris Jr. A sheriff's deputy, state police trooper and Patriot Guard riders pulled the victims from the wreckage. Four were hospitalized. Tauteris was one of four soldiers with a National Guard unit who were killed Jan. 6 by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
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