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The chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway has pleaded not guilty to charges that he tried to extort the missing teen's mother in exchange for revealing where to find her daughter’s remains. Joran van der Sloot pleaded not guilty Friday in federal court in Birmingham, Alabama. He was extradited this week from Peru, where he's serving a 28-year sentence after confessing to killing a Peruvian woman. Holloway disappeared on the island of Aruba during a high school graduation trip with classmates. She was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot. A judge declared her dead, but her body has never been found.

Multiple victims have been struck by bullets during a mass shooting in San Francisco’s Mission District Friday night, but authorities say there were no fatalities. A tweet by the San Francisco Police Department says there are nine shooting victims but they all are expected to survive their injuries. Police say there is no ongoing public threat and the shooting appears to be "targeted and isolated.” The city’s Department of Emergency Management issued an earlier tweet asking people to avoid the area of 24th Street and Treat Avenue. KPIX-TV reports police say officers responded to the shooting shortly after 9 p.m. The station reports the victims were transported to a hospital but their conditions were not immediately known.