National and International News-Thursday, Sept. 28th

BAILEY, Colo. (AP) - The superintendent of schools in Bailey, Colorado, says his community is in mourning today. Platte Canyon High School is closed after a gunman took six girls hostage
yesterday, killing one of them. The scene was reminiscent of the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School, less than an hour's drive away.

CAPITOL HILL (AP) - The corporate spying probe that led to the ouster of the chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard is the subject of a House hearing today. Patricia Dunn will testify that she had no reason to think anything illegal was going on. Investigators masqueraded as reporters and H-P directors and employees to find the source of a leak.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - This continues to be what a U-S military spokesman calls "a tough week" in Iraq. A car bomb exploded near a restaurant in central Baghdad today, killing at least five people, after another bomb killed two Iraqi soldiers. Police also have found the bodies of 40 more torture victims.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A soldier from Oregon did not ship out with her unit to Iraq in January because she said she had been sexually harassed by three noncommissioned officers. One of those allegations was substantiated. But when the Army couldn't verify the others, Suzanne Swift was charged with being absent without leave.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The Army is investigating whether women in a Kentucky National Guard unit posed for nude photos with their M-16s and other military equipment. The unit is now in Iraq. The Guard says it doesn't condone such behavior.