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REMINGTON, Ind. (AP) A gunman shot and killed two women working at a northern Indiana convenience store Monday, and police were seeking a man who also was suspected of killing a teenage girl in Ohio. Melvin M. Keeling, 43, was identified from images captured by a camera inside the store after the shooting was reported shortly after 10 a.m., authorities said. Keeling, of Deerfield Township, Ohio, also was wanted for questioning in the shooting death about 3{ hours earlier of Katelind Caudill, 13, at her grandmother's house about 25 miles northeast of Cincinnati, authorities said. Keeling was wanted on charges...

Scientist finds huge jump in gas that causes global warming: reportClimate experts cautioned Monday that a reported consecutive annual jump in the quantity of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere might be an anomaly, without ruling out it was a sign of rapid global warming. For the first time carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rose by more than two parts per million for two years running, from 2000 to 2001, according to figures recorded by a US scientist and published in the British press. Climate experts said that the figures may be an anomaly but that they raised the alarm...