Nation IN BRIEF : MISSOURI : Town Grieves for 4 Killed by Gunman

Grieving residents of California, Mo., tried to get on with their lives as they held a somber Christmas parade led by a truck bearing four wreaths--one for each victim of last week’s shooting rampage that killed three law officers and the wife of a fourth. James Rodney Johnson, 42, from nearby Jamestown, was held on murder charges in the shootings. He faces a possible death sentence if convicted. The motive for the shootings was not known. The annual parade began at the county courthouse, where the flag flew at half-staff. Black ribbons trimmed courthouse doors. Reid Millard of Jefferson City, who drove a 1930 red fire truck in the parade, said: “He took the lives of four people but he can’t take the heart of the whole town.”