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DEVELOPING: Police are responding to reports of a possible shooting at a South Carolina elementary school. Law enforcement officials were called to Townville Elementary School in Townville, S.C., Wednesday afternoon over an "emergency situation," though district officials have not provided any additional information, according to Fox Carolina.

Attorney-General Philip Ruddock has asked for a full report into the outcome of a US military trial of two Marines accused of a brutal attack last year on a young Australian in a Townsville nightclub. The American military court which heard the case dropped charges against one Marine and acquitted the other earlier this month. The family of Heath Twomey, who had his throat cut, is questioning his fate at the hands of the United States military justice system. The Townsville student never had the chance to give evidence against them in the court and he was not told by...