SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Police at California State University, Sacramento shot a man on campus Wednesday after another man was beaten during a fight in a student dormitory and later died.
Campus officers responding to reports of a disturbance found one man lying injured on the floor and another man who charged them with a knife, campus police chief Dan David said.
Officers fired only after the man refused to back off and after they used pepper spray, David said.
"The subject kept coming at the officers with a knife, and it appeared they had no other choice than to do what they did," he said.
Paramedics treated the man with gunshot wounds and the man who had been beaten, possibly with a baseball bat. Both were taken to hospitals, and the beating victim was pronounced dead.
Police did not immediately say whether the two men were students.
Terror suspect in federal court
BOSTON -- A pharmacy college graduate made a defiant appearance in federal court Wednesday, hours after being charged with conspiring with two other men in a terror plot to kill two prominent U.S. politicians and carry out a holy war by attacking shoppers in U.S. malls and American troops in Iraq.
Authorities say the men's plans -- in which they used code words like "peanut butter and jelly" for fighting in Somalia and "culinary school" for terrorist camps -- were thwarted in part when they could not find training and were unable to buy automatic weapons, authorities said.
Tarek Mehanna, 27, was arrested Wednesday morning at his parents' home in Sudbury, an upscale suburb 20 miles west of Boston, and appeared for a brief hearing later in the day.
Prosecutors say Mehanna worked with two men from 2001 to May 2008 on the conspiracy to "kill, kidnap, maim or injure" soldiers and two politicians who were members of the executive branch but are no longer in office. Authorities refused to identify the politicians.
Obama 'enemies list' alleged
WASHINGTON -- The third-ranking Senate Republican said Wednesday the Obama administration appears to be launching a Richard Nixon-like political strategy of making an "enemies list" of people who disagree with the president.
Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, who once worked in President Nixon's administration, warned the White House that such a "street brawl" approach of attacking political opponents "can get you in a lot of trouble."
Alexander offered no evidence that Obama is developing an actual list.
Body of young child found
ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- Authorities searching for a missing 7-year-old north Florida girl said they found the body of a young child in a Georgia landfill Wednesday, but it has not yet been identified.
Clay County, Fla., Sheriff Rick Beseler first said the body was a female, but then corrected himself and said he couldn't yet confirm the gender. The parents of Somer Thompson, who has been missing since Monday, have been notified.
The body was found by Clay County detectives who followed garbage trucks from the girl's neighborhood to Folkston, Ga., just north of the Florida state line.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was helping with the investigation and planned to conduct an autopsy on the body Thursday in its Savannah office, spokesman John Bankhead said.
Istanbul hijacking attempt fails
CAIRO -- Security guards thwarted an attempted hijacking Wednesday on an EgyptAir flight from Istanbul to Cairo by overpowering a man who threatened crew members with a knife, a security official for the airline said.
A Sudanese man used a plastic knife from the in-flight meal to threaten flight attendants after the plane left Turkish airspace and demanded that the flight be diverted to Jerusalem, the official said. Guards on the flight were able to detain the man and no one was hurt, he said.
The flight landed safely at Cairo airport. The man was arrested and was being questioned by state security, the official said.
The Boeing aircraft was carrying 87 passengers, a Cairo police official said. He identified the suspect as Mohammed Hamad Nourain, 26, and said he used a passport with a phony name to board the flight.
The man told flight attendants he wanted to "liberate Jerusalem," the police official said.
-- From wire reports
