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Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani was identified as the active shooter who killed three people and wounded eight more at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida. Alshamrani was first named in a tweet from NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian. According to the Associated Press, the gunman has been identified as a Saudi national. Authorities have not said whether they are considering the Pensacola shooting an act of terrorism; the AP reported that authorities are looking into whether that’s the case, though. According to The Times, the base hosts international students for flight training. Four people are deceased (including the suspect), and...

UPDATE 11:50 a.m. The shooting suspect at NAS Pensacola was an aviation student from Saudi Arabia, the Associated Press is reporting. The AP is reporting that authorities are investigating if the shooting was terrorism-related.

Navy construction crews have unearthed a rare Spanish ship that was buried for centuries under sand on Pensacola's Naval Air Station, archaeologist confirmed Thursday. The vessel could date to the mid-1500s, when the first Spanish settlement in what is now the United States was founded here, the archaeologists said. But the exposed portion looks more like ships from a later period because of its iron bolts, said Elizabeth Benchley, director of the Archaeology Institute at the University of West Florida. "There are Spanish shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay," Benchley said. "We have worked on two — one from 1559 and another...

Naval air station, home of the Blue Angels, lies in tattersBy JONI JAMESPublished September 19, 2004 PENSACOLA - The home of the Blue Angels was battered by Hurricane Ivan. It will be weeks before the Pensacola Naval Air Station will be back to normal after hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to hangars and historic buildings."We were the first ones to show up, so we're the first ones to clean up," said Petty Officer Wayne Buchanan, 25, an electronics teacher.Nearly 180 years after President John Adams commissioned this Navy base on the strategic shores of Pensacola Bay to...