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Syria threatens to 'cleanse' rebel district in city of Homs BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian regime showed a new determination Wednesday to crush its opponents, vowing to ''cleanse'' a rebel-held district in the besieged central city of Homs after nearly four weeks of shelling. Government troops massed outside the embattled neigh- borhood of Baba Amr, raising fears among activists of an imminent ground invasion that could endanger thousands of residents, as well as two trapped Western journalists, who have been under heavy bombardment. A Spanish journalist who had been stuck in the area escaped Wednesday to Lebanon, the second foreign reporter to do so since a government rocket attack last week killed two of his colleagues and wounded two others. The fate of the foreign journalists has drawn attention to Homs, which has emerged as a key battleground between government forces and those seeking to end the regime of authoritarian President Bashar Assad. The government's increasingly bloody attempts to put down the 11-month uprising have fueled mounting interna- tional criticism. Teenage suspect in fatal Ohio school shooting may have used gun belonging to relative CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — The teenager suspected in an Ohio school shooting struggled with a broken family and did poorly in school, then appeared to turn himself around once he was taken in by grandparents and began to attend an alter- native school, longtime neighbors and friends said Wednes- day. To a person, they expressed disbelief at how the quiet but friendly boy could now be a suspect in a shooting that left three people dead and appears to have involved a gun that disappeared from his grandfather's barn. ''T.J. was a very fine person,'' Carl Henderson, a long- time neighbor of the suspect's grandparents, Thomas and Michelle Lane, said Wednesday. ''Nice-looking man, very friendly, spoke to you, carried a conversation with you.'' The gun, a .22 caliber revolver, was noticed as missing after Monday's shootings and fits the description of the pis- tol that reportedly was used to kill three students and wound two others at Chardon High School, said Henderson, a retired police officer and former Geauga County sheriff. He said he has spoken to the grandfather, Thomas Lane, about the gun. The suspect's grandfather believes the gun is the same, ''because the gun was there the day before, in the barn,'' said Henderson, 74, who says he's been friends with the boy's family for nearly 50 years. Wall Street Nasdaq cracks 3,000, stocks fall (AP) —The Nasdaq composite index briefly broke through 3,000 on Wednesday for the first time since the col- lapse in dot-com stocks more than a decade ago. Stocks ended lower, but it was still the best February on Wall Street in 14 years. 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