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FBI kill Florida man known to Boston bombing suspects

MIAMI - A man known to the Boston Marathon bombers was shot and killed Wednesday by an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent after he turned violent during questioning, the investigating agency said. The Orlando Sentinel newspaper identified the man as Ibragim Todashev, 27. He was killed in the early morning incident in Orlando, Florida. The FBI said the shooting occurred in Orlando, ...
Florida gets a “C” in job security

Florida scores a middling grade in a new report card on job security in the United States. Wider Opportunities for Women, an advocacy group in Washington, gave Florida a C, crediting the Sunshine State for having more favorable policies at it relates to income (B) but trailing the nation on workplace benefits (D-), and being average when it comes to home affordability, consumer debt and ...
US Army declares missing Fort Bragg soldier dead

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Gun owner charged after boy 11 dies in accidental shooting

Charges have been filed against a man who purchased a handgun off the street that later accidentally fired and killed a Lake City boy when children were playing with ...
Swearing-in ceremony for Braddy and Wells is noon Thursday

The City Commission will also elect a mayor-commissioner pro-tem for the next year. The ceremony begins at noon at the Thelma Boltin Center, 516 NE 2nd Ave.- Christopher ...

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FBI kill Florida man known to Boston bombing suspects

MIAMI - A man known to the Boston Marathon bombers was shot and killed Wednesday by an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent after he turned violent during questioning, the investigating agency said.

The Orlando Sentinel newspaper identified the man as Ibragim Todashev, 27. He was killed in the early morning incident in Orlando, Florida.

The FBI said the shooting occurred in Orlando, Florida, while the special agent and two Massachusetts state troopers and other law enforcement personnel were interviewing the man about the blasts that killed three people and injured 264 others at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

"A violent confrontation was initiated by the individual," the FBI said, adding that a special agent, "acting on the imminent threat posed by the individual, responded with deadly force. The individual was killed and the special agent was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries".

The FBI initially said their agent had killed Todashev, but an updated statement left unclear the question of who had fired the deadly shot.

Police have blocked off the apartment complex where the Chechen immigrant was shot.

Todashev was reported to be a friend of dead Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whom he knew through their shared hobby of mixed martial-arts fighting. ...