NATIONAL BRIEFS

TENNESSEE: 5 bikers found dead in RV

Five bikers were found dead Sunday in a recreational vehicle at the Clarksville Speedway and an organizer for the motorcycle festival blamed fumes from a generator. Three men and two women were found in the RV and there was no sign of foul play, police said. Bill Langford, the director of the event Bikers Who Care, said the group was close-knit and he was friends with those who died. He identified them as a married couple with 8-month-old twins, the man a truck driver, his wife a schoolteacher. Another couple also died as well as a co-worker of one of the men. All were from the Clarksville area, 40 miles northwest of Nashville. It appeared a small storage hatch on the RV did not close properly, allowing fumes from the generator to leak in, Langford said.

FLORIDA: Two pastors shot in church

Derrick Foster was kneeling in prayer when a gunman burst through the front door of Greater Faith Christian Center Church in Lakeland. He heard shooting, then screams. Jeremiah Fogle. a former church member, is accused of critically wounding Pastor William Boss and an associate, Carl Stewart, as 20 people prayed between Sunday services. Authorities and relatives said Fogle shot his wife to death at home, where he had started his own church, before continuing the rampage a block away at the church. The Polk County sheriff's office said Foster and another man tackled the gunman and a church member struck him in the head with a microphone stand. The gunman had six live rounds in his pocket. "He was prepared to shoot even more," Sheriff Grady Judd said.

MASSACHUSETTS: Fully paid college for victim's kin

The University of Massachusetts says it is offering full scholarships to the siblings of a Springfield boy who hanged himself in 2009 after incessant bullying at school. Carl Walker-Hoover was 11 when he committed suicide. His mother, Walker, has become an anti-bullying advocate. UMass says her other two children, Charles, 8, and Gloria, 7, will be invited to attend any of its four campuses with tuition, room, and fees covered for four years.