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Wade Michael Page, the man accused of killing six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, was a member of a white supremacist band called End Apathy, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, and in a 2010 interview about the band had expressed disappointment with a “sick society.” Page, a U.S. Army veteran who was administratively discharged in 1998 after being demoted in rank, was shot and killed Sunday after ambushing two police officers who...

OAK CREEK, Wis. - A rampage at a Sikh temple that left seven dead and three critically wounded Sunday was called a possible case of domestic terrorism, prompting the FBI to take over the investigation. One of the dead was the suspected gunman. Tattoos on his body and certain biographical details led to the preliminary terrorism classification, according to a federal official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. In an afternoon press conference, Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards called it a case of domestic terrorism.

OAK CREEK, Wisc. -- Wade Michael Page, an Army veteran who was a “psychological operations specialist,” was identified as the gunman in a deadly Sikh temple shooting, officials said Monday morning. As authorities searched for a motive in the Sunday attack, the first picture of the assailant began to emerge. Page died in a shootout with police outside the temple in suburban Milwaukee. In all, seven people, including the suspect, were dead and three others were critically wounded in what police have labeled an act of domestic terrorism.

WASHINGTON -- Federal investigators had “looked at” Sikh temple gunman Wade Michael Page more than once because of his associations with right-wing extremists and the possibility that he was providing funding to a domestic terrorist group, but law enforcement officials at the time determined there was not enough evidence of a crime to open an investigation, a senior U.S. law enforcement official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, would not say Monday which law enforcement agency had considered investigating Page, or when.

OAK CREEK, Wis. -- A “person of interest” sought by investigators in connection with the shooting Sunday at a Sikh temple here has been identified and ruled out as a suspect, an FBI spokesman said. Leonard Peace of the FBI said the man, whom he declined to identify, “has been located, interviewed and ruled out in connection with the investigation.” Earlier Monday, officials displayed a photograph of the man, who had showed up at the shooting scene, and said they wanted to talk with him, even though they were convinced that a single gunman was responsible for killing six and wounded three.

OAK CREEK, Wis. - The gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple had a criminal record, a history of involvement in the white supremacist movement and a checkered career in the Army, law enforcement authorities and organizations that monitor hate groups said Monday. Nevertheless, Wade Michael Page, 40, was able to legally purchase a 9-millimeter handgun at a local gun store and was believed to have acted alone when he entered the temple in a Milwaukee suburb Sunday morning and opened fire.

Families anxiously waited to learn who lived and who died during a mass shooting at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee on Sunday.  At least three men remain in critical condition.  "One is in surgical intensive care, one is in the operating room and one is in the emergency room," Froedtert Hospital spokeswoman Beth Strohbusch told the Chicago Tribune. According to police, local media reports and witness accounts, a gunman attacked the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek shortly after 10 a.m. CT. Four died inside the building and three died outside, including the shooter, who exchanged gunfire with the first police officer to arrive on the scene.  PHOTOS: Gunman opened fire at Sikh temple The officer, a 20-year veteran, was hit several times but is expected to live, police said.

At least four people have been shot at a Sikh temple in Milwaukee, and at least one gunman may still be inside, according to local media reports. Relatives of those trapped inside the temple said hostages had been taken at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, according to Ashley Sears, a reporter for Fox 6 in Milwaukee. "A man says his friend saw two people get shot in a parking lot. He drove away in a panic," she tweeted . PHOTOS: Gunman opened fire at Sikh temple The head priest was locked inside a restroom after the shooting, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel , which received a text message suggesting that there were as many as 20 to 30 victims.

For two decades, Dee Tuntkavep has enjoyed a view of pine-shrouded Chandler Boulevard from the upstairs reading room of her Sherman Oaks home. Now all she sees are concrete walls two stories high -- the still-in-progress expansion of an Orthodox Jewish house of worship. In fact, plans for the upgraded Chabad of North Hollywood are for a structure nearly nine times the size of the prayer house it replaces. On its website, the Chabad gives thanks: "Divine Providence has finally shined down on this long-awaited project.

During the Cambodian civil war from 1970 to 1998, the Khmer Rouge and other paramilitary groups began decimating that country's ancient sites in search of treasures to sell on the international art market. Along with arms dealing and drug smuggling, the looting and trafficking of artifacts became organized industries, which helped finance one of the 20th century's most notorious regimes. My colleagues and I have documented the painful scars from this plunder - desecrated tombs, beheaded statues and ransacked temples - at archaeological sites throughout Cambodia.