National news briefs

Gunman kills self inside farm store

MACOMB, Ill. (AP) — A man opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon inside an Illinois farm supply store Wednesday, sending terrified customers and employees bolting for exits and seeking cover before he turned the gun on himself, authorities said. No one else was injured.

Jonathan Labbe, 19, of nearby Tennessee, Ill., was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Wednesday evening in the housewares section of the Farm King store in Macomb, said Police Chief Curt Barker.

A Farm King employee called 911 just before 1 p.m. to report that a man with a rifle had walked into the store. When police arrived, someone shot at them from inside, Barker said. Police blocked off streets and warned people to stay inside.

Plane diverted after 'kind of bang' heard

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An American Airlines flight from Dallas to Seattle was diverted to Oklahoma City and landed without trouble Wednesday after passengers and crew heard "kind of a bang" and the plane lost cabin pressure, officials and passengers said.

Flight 621 had just reached its 30,000-foot cruising altitude and was about 70 miles north of Dallas-Fort Worth Airport when the incident began, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford in Fort Worth, Texas. The plane landed at Will Rogers World Airport shortly after 11:30 a.m.

No injuries were reported.

'Hidden' triplets and mom die in childbirth

SHELTON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut woman managed to hide from her boyfriend and family members that she was carrying triplets, then bled to death while delivering the full-term but stillborn babies in her home, officials said Wednesday.

Shelton police detective Ben Trabka said he believes 26-year-old Victoria Hope denied being pregnant and instead gave medical reasons "why she had put on weight."

Hope did not disclose her pregnancy to anyone police spoke to, including her boyfriend — the father of her children — Trabka said. The father suspected she was pregnant but she denied it, and police do not know why she hid her condition.

It wasn't clear whether the woman knew she was carrying triplets before giving birth Tuesday. Her father, William Hope, acknowledged Wednesday that his daughter was "big" and said he doesn't know why she hid her pregnancy.

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