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Police are searching for a gunman who shot at least eight people at a high-rise office building in Orlando, Fla., Friday morning.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, is in custody in the rampage that left 12 dead and 31 injured in Texas. In an act of violence that sent shock waves through the American military establishment and raised questions about base security, a man armed with two handguns allegedly opened fire Thursday afternoon on the grounds of Ft. Hood, the country's largest military base. Twelve people were killed and 31 others injured. The suspect, an Army psychologist, was shot and in custody.

Police are looking into whether a gunman accused of killing eight people in a North Carolina nursing home may have targeted the facility because his estranged wife worked there.

Eight people have been killed and several others wounded in a shooting at a nursing home in Carthage, North Carolina, police said.

As investigators Thursday prepared to scale back their probe of the shooting rampage that left 11 dead in and near this town, ...