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Officials are searching for a motive in the Pearl Harbor shooting that left two civilian employees dead and a third injured before the gunman took his own life. The shooter has only been identified as an active-duty US sailor whose submarine was docked at the shipyard near Honolulu. Rear Adm. Robert Chadwick, commander of Navy Region Hawaii, said he didn’t know the motive behind the shooting Wednesday. “We have no indication yet whether they were targeted or if it was a random shooting,” Chadwick said. Gunfire broke out around 2:30 p.m. at the base, which hosts both the Navy and...

A reunion for crewmembers from the USS Columbia, a light cruiser that patrolled the Pacific during World War II, will be held Sept. 30 through Oct. 2. The reunion, returning to Columbia for the first time since 1986, is expected to draw several dozen of the ship’s surviving 350 crewmen, said event chairman John Thoresz. Age is catching up with the veterans, said the 83-year-old Thoresz, of Milltown, N.J. “We’ve lost 26 men since the last reunion,” said Thoresz, who was the ship’s storeskeeper. “We’re going down quickly.” A public memorial service will be held Oct. 1 at the ship’s...