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DADEVILLE, Ala. AP 鈥?Two teenagers have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with an Alabama shooting thatkilled four young peopleat a Sweet Sixteen birthday party, investigators announced Wednesday.District Attorney Mike Segrest said the pair would be charged as adults. He said prosecutors would ask a judge to hold them without bail. A bond hearing must be held by Friday under Alabama law.Saturdays violence shocked Dadeville, a sleepy town of 3,200. In addition to the four young people who died, another 32 were wounded. Segrest said four people are still hospitalized in critical condition and t stanley cup hat more charges would be coming. Were going to make sure all those victims have justice, not just the deceased, Segrest said, speaking to reporters in front of the town courthouse.The gunfire broke out at a birthday party for Alexis Dowdell, which was being held at a dance studio just off the towns courthouse square. Witnesses had said multiple people began shooting some time after Dowdells mother paused the celebration to ask people with guns to leave.The birthday girls brother, Philstavious Phil Dowdell,died in his sisters arms. He and another victim, Shaunkivia Nicole Ke gourde stanley Ke Smith, were high school seniors, and stanley cup families were left planning funerals instead of graduation celebrations. Two young men were also killed.A family member of KeKe Smith said she was thankful for the arrests. It dont make the hurt any easier. But we are relieved that they the suspects are Azbz British lawmakers back Dec. 12 election

WASHINGTON 鈥?Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, is hitting back against a top Defense Department official who criticized the committee as wasteful, inefficient and unproductive.In a letter to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter sent Friday, Gowdy defended the work of the committee, which was formed in 2014 to investigate the 2012 attacks on the U.S. d stanley termosky iplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.Gowdys letter came about a week after Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs Stephen Hedger sent a letter to the committee criticizing its tactics, including the panels crescendo of stanley cup new requests since February to interview Pentagon service members and threats to subpoena those witnesses if the Pentagon did not comply quickly enough. Hedger said the requests came with an unrealistic timeline. Gowdy shot back Friday, saying that Hedger mischaracterized the nature of the committees investigation and its interaction with the Defense Department and that the letter was overtly partisan. Given the importance of the issue and the absolute necessity that the inquiry be full and fair, it is disappointing your staff has found it necessary to challenge the Committees requests for interviews, Gowdy wrote to Carter. Gowdy also stanley thermos took issue with what he said were factual inaccuracies in Hedgers letter. The committee has interviewed 16 Defense Department witnesses 鈥?not the seven witn