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HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Authorities are searching for two men who fired gunshots from a vehicle at soldiers at a military facility in Mississippi, although no one was reported wounded, a sheriff said Tuesday.
Perry County Sheriff Jimmy Dale Smith told WDAM-TV that the soldiers were training at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center near Hattiesburg.
Mississippi's National Guard said soldiers training at Camp Shelby reported hearing shots fired at 11:45 a.m. along Peret Tower Road, near the training facility. The facility is secure and all personnel accounted for and unharmed, the guard said in a news release.
The guard made no mention of whether the shots were believed to have been fired at troops but made clear that the shots are believed to have been fired from outside Camp Shelby.
Deputies later traced the vehicle to a residence, Smith told The Clarion-Ledger newspaper (Shots fired at Camp Shelby soldiers ). Smith had previously described the vehicle as a red Ford Ranger with "broken arrow" written across the top.
The giant military base south of Hattiesburg is one of the premier training facilities for National Guard troops from across the country and during the height of the Iraq war was often the last stop for National Guard troops training to go to the Middle East.
The base is currently hosting about 4,600 active-duty soldiers, National Guard and reservists from Texas and Mississippi in a summer training exercise.
This summer's training focuses on the coordinated efforts of individual soldiers acting as a platoon, which can vary in size but normally boasts 30-plus members.
The exercises, called "Exportable Combat Training Capability," began in mid-July and will continue through mid-August.
Camp Shelby officials also were hosting a field hearing Tuesday by the National Commission on the Future of the Army.
The commission is an independent, congressionally mandated panel directed to assess President Barack Obama's recommendations for restructuring the Army's active-duty and reserve component force structures.
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FRESNO, Calif. — World-famous wingsuit flier Dean Potter had strapped his iPhone to the back of his head and hit record before jumping from a cliff in Yosemite National Park in what was to be an exhilarating flight through a V-shaped rocky formation — a route that left little margin for error.
Potter set the phone at this position to capture a video of his partner, Graham Hunt, behind and above him as the pair leaped off the granite diving board at Taft Point, 3,500 feet above the valley.
Twenty-two seconds later the video abruptly stops. The two were killed when they slammed into the ridgeline at 100 mph-plus attempting to soar through the notch in the rock formation called Lost Brother.
Through a records request, The Associated Press obtained investigation reports about the deadly flight on May 16. National Park Service investigators relied heavily on Potter's bashed iPhone, interviews and a series of rapid-fire photos taken by Potter's girlfriend, Jen Rapp, who stayed behind at the launch site as the spotter.
The investigation concluded the deaths were accidental, but despite the video and photos of the jump, officials consider the specific reason why they died a mystery. Investigators listed several possible contributing factors — including indecision, distraction, miscalculation and air turbulence — as the jumpers made split-second decisions.
Potter, 43, and Hunt, 29, were both experienced in the extreme sport of wingsuit flying, a dangerous offshoot of BASE jumping — an acronym for parachuting off buildings, antennas, spans such as bridges and Earth. They would glide frighteningly close to cliffs and trees, wearing the suits that have fabric stitched between the arms and body and between the legs, so jumpers spreading their limbs can stay aloft longer and control their path with subtle body movements.
In 2009, Potter made the longest known BASE jump — off the Eiger North Face in Switzerland. He remained in flight for 2 minutes and 50 seconds, earning him National Geographic's Adventurer of the Year title.
In his final flight, Potter stood with Hunt on the ledge in Yosemite. It was still light at 7:35 p.m. with hovering rainclouds, according to the investigation. Potter wore a red suit, while Hunt's was black and yellow. Hunt zipped his phone in his pocket, after trying unsuccessfully to text his girlfriend, who was waiting in the valley. Potter's iPhone video recording captured what sounded like him saying "Ready?"
Potter told Rapp that he planned to fly through the notch. If he lacked elevation, he would instead go around the ridgeline. Rapp snapped photos of Potter making the leap, followed closely by Hunt.
Seconds into flight, Rapp lost sight of them. Instead, she told investigators that she heard a "thwack" followed a second later by a "guuuuhhh." She shouted in their direction, hoping the noises were parachutes opening, not impacts of bodies. She didn't received the text Potter usually sent with the word "safe" to assure her that he had once again beaten the odds.
Dusk turned to darkness and desperation. Rapp drove to their agreed upon meeting place. Not finding the jumpers, she returned to Potter's nearby home, where she found Hunt's girlfriend.
"Are they OK? Have you talked to them?" Hunt's girlfriend asked. Rapp said she hadn't.
The two women at 10 p.m. went to the residence of Mike Gauthier, Yosemite's chief of staff and a friend of Potter. Gauthier urged the women to report the men missing and they made an emergency phone call. A dispatcher reported a woman calling, asking if any BASE jumpers had been arrested. Upon hearing a "no," the caller broke down crying.
A ground search that night turned up nothing, but a helicopter crew the next morning found their bodies.
Autopsies found that Potter had struck headfirst and that Hunt hit with the front of his body. Blood samples showed no drugs or alcohol for either man.
Investigators say Rapp's still photos show Hunt flying left, then right, then left and a final hard banking right before his impact. After Potter's iPhone was repaired, the video shows him a foot or two above the ground just before the video stopped. Park officials did not provide the video to the AP, saying it was in possession of Potter's family. Rapp declined an AP request for the photographs that she took.
An unnamed wingsuit flier investigators consulted estimated that Potter and Hunt had flown through the notch about five times, a path well known among wingsuit fliers as being dangerous.
The flier inspected both wingsuits for the park service and found no equipment flaws, the investigative reports said.
Among other things, they noted that Hunt may have been distracted by phone calls and texts he attempted immediately before jumping and that Potter may have seen his partner strike the ground and flinched, or he simply misjudged his elevation.
"No one but Potter and Hunt will every truly know what happened," investigators concluded.
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Roman Totenberg’s daughters, from left, Jill, Nina and Amy, at the United States attorney’s office. Their father died in 2012.
“The mystery was solved,” Nina Totenberg, the legal affairs correspondent for NPR News, said at a news conference at the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan, where the violin was returned to her family. She said it appeared that her father, who had long harbored suspicions about who had stolen his violin, had been right all along.
The violin was stolen in May 1980 from Mr. Totenberg’s office at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Mass., where he was then the director. Mr. Totenberg, a teacher and virtuoso who performed as a soloist with major orchestras and worked with Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Leopold Stokowski and Arthur Rubinstein, died in 2012 at age 101. His violin was valued at $250,000 when it was stolen; these days, the finest Stradivarius violins often sell for millions of dollars.
The violin did not surface again until June 26, when a California woman, identified in court papers as Thanh Tran, brought it to New York to have it appraised by Mr. Injeian at a meeting at the Ace Hotel in Manhattan. According to Mr. Injeian, Ms. Tran said that her ex-husband gave it to her before dying in 2011. But it was in a locked case, so she put it aside for several years before she and a boyfriend broke the case open.
Nina Totenberg said that the man who had left Ms. Tran the violin, Philip S. Johnson, whom she described as “an aspiring violinist,” had long been suspected of stealing it.
“He was seen loitering around the place where it was taken, and later his ex-girlfriend would tell my father that she was quite sure that he had taken it,” Ms. Totenberg said at the news conference. “That, however, was not enough for a search warrant, and my mother was so frustrated that she would famously ask her friends if anyone knew someone in the mob who would break into Johnson’s apartment and do a search for the violin.”
That led Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, to weigh in. “Just one point of practice,” he said, looking around at the assembled prosecutors, F.B.I. agents and New York Police Department officials. “If you do lose something, and it goes missing, and you don’t know how to get it back, don’t actually call the mob.”
A stipulation and court order that was signed this week, paving the way for the return of the violin to the Totenberg family, said that Ms. Tran had “voluntarily relinquished” the violin to the Federal Bureau of Investigation after learning that it might be stolen. She “represents that she received the Ames Stradivarius from her former spouse prior to his death, and that she did not have knowledge” that it had been stolen, the papers said.
Ms. Tran did not return several calls seeking comment. Law enforcement officials said they had no evidence she knew the violin had been stolen.
Little was immediately known about Mr. Johnson. He was not named in the court papers, but several law enforcement officials confirmed that he was the woman’s ex-husband, and had been a longtime suspect. One law enforcement official said the F.B.I. case file and subsequent leads shed no light on a motive. An official at Boston University said that a Philip Johnson with the same birth date had attended Boston University’s School for the Arts from 1976 through 1979; Mr. Totenberg was on the faculty during part of that period.
Detective Michael O. Gildea of the New York Police Department, who worked on the case with Christopher McKeogh, an agent with the F.B.I.’s Art Crime Team, said that it was strange that the violin had apparently been locked away for so many years, only to surface now. “It was very odd to me that someone would risk so much, and yet did so little with it,” he said. Stolen Stradivarius violins, like famous purloined paintings, are hard to sell because they are so recognizable.
Ms. Totenberg said she was sad that her father was not alive to see his instrument restored. The bond between musicians and instruments is a powerful one. After the theft, Mr. Totenberg, who had owned the violin for 38 years, told CBS News in 1981 that it had taken two decades of playing the instrument before it reached its potential. “It took some time to wake it up,” he said, “to work it out, find all the things that it needed, the right kind of strings and so on and so on.”
But she said that he would have been furious “if he’d known that the person that he’d thought took it had in fact taken it, and all these years had it hidden away, not maintaining it the way one should, not caring for it as a special baby, not having it played.”
Ms. Totenberg said that the family had now paid back the insurance money that Mr. Totenberg collected after the violin was stolen, and that it planned to have the Ames Stradivarius restored and sold — but to a musician who will play it, not a collector who will lock it away.
“None of us play the violin, and we know that Stradivarius owners are really just guardians of these great, great instruments,” she said. “They are meant to be played by great artists. And so the Ames Strad — now perhaps known as the Ames-Totenberg Strad — will eventually be in the hands of another great artist, like my father, and the beautiful, brilliant and throaty voice of that violin, long stilled, will once again thrill audiences in concert halls around the world.”
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An astounding 40 earthquakes were reported within the period of a week in Oklahoma in late July. State Gov. Mary Fallin acknowledged the link between such earthquake clusters and wastewater disposal procedures used in fracking operations.
In 2013, Oklahoma experienced 109 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or higher. In 2014, the number skyrocketed to 585 such seismic events, according to state website Earthquakes in Oklahoma. This puts the current rate at some 600 times the historical average.
A particularly intense bout of seismic activity occurred during a seven day period in late July, when 40 earthquakes with a magnitude of at least 2.5 were reported in Oklahoma, according to The Weather Channel.
"We are almost seven months through the year and we've almost tied the number of earthquakes we had in 2014. And of course, 2014 was an absolute record-breaking year for the number of earthquakes in Oklahoma," state seismologist Austin Holland told a local Fox affiliate.
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