BOSTON – One of dozens of historic maps missing from the Boston Public Library turned up in the hands of a New York City antiques dealer, who was offering it for sale at $285,000 last summer before a sharp-eyed library curator spotted it.
The 1612 map, compiled by French explorer Samuel de Champlain, has been returned to its rightful owner as a result and is on display at the library in Copley Square. The map was taken out of a 1613 book describing Champlain's voyages to the New World, "Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain," and was discovered missing in 2005 by the curator, Ronald Grim. Grim was credited Thursday with finding the document, called the "Carte Geographique de Nouvelle France," last summer as he perused an antiques publication.
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The woman who helped her husband kill 14 people at a holiday banquet for his county co-workers pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and its leader on Facebook using an alias, then deleted the messages before the attack, a U.S. law enforcement official said Friday, providing the strongest evidence to date that the rampage may have been a terrorist attack.
The remarkable disclosure about the online activities of Tashfeen Malik provided the first significant details suggesting a motive for her participation with her husband, Syed Farook, in the shooting.
