SALT LAKE CITY - The FBI said Wednesday it has no reason to believe the shooting spree that killed five people in a shopping mall was an act of Islamic terrorism, leaving a young Bosnian immigrant's motives a mystery.

"It's just unexplainable," FBI agent Patrick Kiernan said. "He was just walking around and shooting everybody he saw."

Sulejman Talovic, 18, fired randomly at shoppers Monday, killing five and leaving four others with bullet wounds before he was shot dead by police.

"We are Muslims, but we are not terrorists," the boy's aunt, Ajka Omerovic, said Wednesday at the family's house. She rejected any religious motive for the shooting and said the family can't explain it.

The Talovic family fled war-torn Bosnia for Utah in 1998 "to be free," she said.

Talovic's parents don't speak English and aren't answering knocks on their door. Omerovic said the boy's mother is distraught and that the father - her brother - normally works "dusk to dawn" in construction.

Authorities, meanwhile, are investigating how Talovic acquired one of his weapons, a .38-caliber pistol, which is illegal for a teenager to possess, said Lori Dyer, in charge of the local office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Those efforts were delayed Wednesday when an East Coast storm shut down ATF offices, she said.

Talovic was heavily armed with ammunition, a shotgun and a .38-caliber pistol.

"You can buy long guns at 18. That's not a problem. The handgun he shouldn't have had, so obviously we're going to look at where he got that gun," Dyer said.

Omerovic said Talovic never displayed any guns. "We want to know, who sold these guns to him," she said.

Police tape was removed from the parking lot and Trolley Square reopened Wednesday, although it was up to each shop whether to resume business.

Workers repaired pillars damaged by shotgun blasts and covered broken windows with plywood.

"We're opening the mall, not in the sense of business as usual but to let the healing begin," said Tom Bard, an executive at Scanlan Kemper Bard Cos. of Portland, Ore.

A card store called Cabin Fever - where some of the bodies were found - won't reopen until Feb. 21, but the owner offered free Valentine's Day cards outside the door. The sign said: "Don't forget to tell someone you love them Wednesday."

John and Amanda Redford of Ogden, in town to celebrate their second wedding anniversary, walked around the mall.

"Just curious," John Redford said. "It's pretty weird to know that it just happened a couple of days ago."

Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank said the rampage could have been even worse if not for the quick actions of an off-duty officer from Ogden, Ken Hammond, who engaged Talovic in a shootout before other officers arrived.

Talovic wanted to "to kill a large number of people," Burbank said Tuesday.

At 16, Talovic was taken out of high school by his mother to work, Salt Lake City school district spokesman Jason Olsen said.

Talovic worked for two months as a general laborer at Aramark Uniform Services, an industrial launderer and uniform-rental company, manager Trent Thorn said.

On the day of the shooting, Talovic appeared for his regular shift, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., said Thorn, who declined to say anything personal about him.

Talovic was a legal U.S. resident, said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Talovic was only 4 when he and his mother fled their village of Talovici on foot after Serbian forces overran it in 1993, people close to the family told The Associated Press.

He lived as a refugee in Bosnia from 1993 to 1998, when his family moved to the United States, they said.

During that period, he spent some time in Srebrenica, the northeastern enclave where up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered in 1995 by Serb forces.

Talovic left Srebrenica two years before the massacre, but acquaintances suggested it may have left an indelible mark on the quiet little boy they knew.

"That's why I'm convinced the war did this in Utah," said Murat Avdic, a friend of the family. "There cannot be any other reason."

Four people who were shot at the mall remained in hospitals, two in critical condition and two listed as serious on Wednesday.

Associated Press writers Debbie Hummel in Salt Lake City and Aida Cerkez-Robinson in Sarajevo contributed to this story.

Men seeking paternity of Smith's baby might not prosper in legal win

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Men are lining up to claim they are the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby. But they could be mistaken if they think paternity will automatically mean a pot of gold.

Instead, they could be stepping into a monumentally complex, multinational legal fight over the child. Moreover, it is not at all clear whether the little girl is a million-dollar baby, as some seem to think.

For all anyone knows, the voluptuous former centerfold, who died at age 39 last week under mysterious circumstances, may have set up a trust or employed some other means of keeping the father of her baby from getting his hands on her fortune.

Wayne Munroe, an attorney representing Smith's estate in the Bahamas, hinted at just that, suggesting there may be provisions in her will that could undermine any great expectations among potential fathers.

"They may think that you get a finding and a court order and you get to live on the child's money," said Munroe, who has access to Smith's will. "But they are in for a rude awakening."

"They're going to find out this woman was much smarter than they thought," he said. "They will only have the responsibility for maintaining this child."

The question of how much money the child might stand to inherit remains murky. Smith was involved in a decade-long legal battle over the estate of her late husband, oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II.

Smith initially won a $474 million judgment, but it was thrown out on appeal. However, the U.S. Supreme Court said the former Playboy centerfold deserves another day in court. The case is still pending.

Smith also made money from a TV reality show and as a spokeswoman for the diet supplement Trimspa. She borrowed money to buy a $900,000 mansion in the Bahamas and she was left with large legal debts involving the drug-related death of her son, Daniel.

"It's a very, very confused case," said Beverly Hills family law attorney Alexandra Leichter. "Whoever is going to claim to be the father had better get a good lawyer in the Bahamas."

That's where little Dannielynn, Smith's 5-month-old daughter, is living with Howard K. Stern, who is listed as her father on her birth certificate and is the executor of Smith's will.

Stern, Smith's boyfriend, is among at least three men who are claiming to be the father. The others are photojournalist Larry Birkhead, who has filed a paternity claim in Los Angeles, and Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor. He claims he carried on a decade-long affair with Smith. (A former Smith bodyguard has also said he, too, had an affair with Smith, and may be the baby's father.)

Birkhead is pressing for DNA testing of the baby and Smith's body to establish who is Dannielynn's father, and the results would almost certainly settle the question. But the matter is tied up in court.

Normally, there is no need for DNA testing on the mother in a paternity case. But tensions and suspicions are running so high that Birkhead asked for genetic material from Smith to guard against a baby switch.

A Bahamian judge has issued an injunction preventing the baby from being taken out of the country until the custody case is resolved. Smith's mother, Vergie Arthur, is also vying to be appointed guardian of the girl.

With two states - California and Florida - and two countries involved in the legal fray, jurisdictional questions could overwhelm the central issue of paternity.

Many men who father children don't want to be found after they are born. But in this case, there are motives to come forward.

"One is they actually want to raise the child because they love her," said Leichter, who has practiced family law for 34 years and handled her share of celebrity cases. "The other motive is money. You wonder if so many fathers would be coming forward if this was a child born in a tenement on the south side of Chicago."

Munroe sounded weary of the conflicting paternity claims and predicted there will be "a lot of bad behavior" before the matter is resolved.

"Some German chap came into my office today and claimed he is the father," he said.

In the end, however, Bahamian law will apply as long as the baby is living in the territory, he said. Any action in California or Florida courts would have no effect in that nation.

L.A. judge withdraws request for hold on body of Anna Nicole Smith

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge on Wednesday withdrew a request to Florida authorities to hold the body of Anna Nicole Smith until a DNA sample could be taken as part of a paternity fight in California, a lawyer said.

Judge Robert A. Schnider made his decision in closed session after hearing via telephone from Broward County medical examiner Joshua Perper that Smith's DNA had been preserved during an autopsy in Florida.

"California has no need for the body of Anna Nicole," attorney James Neavitt told reporters after the hearing.

Neavitt represents Howard K. Stern, Smith's partner and one of the men claiming paternity of her daughter, 5-month-old Dannielynn.

Schnider ruled in response to a request by Ron Rale, an attorney for Smith. One of his colleagues will now ask a Florida judge to release the body.

Rale said he wants the body to go to Stern and urged Smith's mother, Vergie Arthur, not to seek it.

"I am imploring Vergie to back off this issue," Rale said after the hearing. "You know Vergie, the purported mother of Anna Nicole, is not someone she held in high esteem. We all know Anna Nicole would not want Vergie to have control of her body."

Krista Barth, another lawyer for Stern, said Smith made it clear she wanted to be buried in the Bahamas, where her son, Daniel, who died last year, is buried.

Stern told "Entertainment Tonight" that Smith bought two plots at Lakeview Memorial Gardens & Mausoleums cemetery in the Bahamas so she could someday be buried next to her son.

Rale also said Smith left a will that names Stern as the primary executor of her estate, with Rale as the secondary executor.

The hold on Smith's body was sought Feb. 9 by attorney Debra Opri, who represents Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend of Smith who also claims he is the father of Dannielynn.

Opri has said Smith's DNA is needed to connect her with Dannielynn so no one could switch the babies.

Wednesday's ruling in Los Angeles came just hours after Florida Circuit Judge Lawrence Korda granted a petition by Birkhead to abide by the California court's request to hold Smith's body.

A Feb. 20 hearing will be held in Los Angeles to consider whether DNA from Smith can be used in the paternity suit.

Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of the actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, is also claiming he fathered the child. He plans to file his own paternity challenge in court.

Storm ties up travel, closes schools and interferes with Valentine's Day flower deliveries

NEW YORK (AP) - Blowing snow and sleet glazed windshields and roads across the Northeast and the Midwest on Wednesday, messing up Valentine's Day flower deliveries and wrecking couples' plans for romantic dinners.

The storm grounded hundreds of flights and forced the closing of schools and businesses from Kentucky to Maine. Many of those stuck at home had no heat or lights because of blackouts that affected more than a quarter-million customers.

"I'm just trying to figure out where to take my wife for Valentine's Day," said Skip Daniels, the emergency management director in Sussex County, N.J.

At least 12 deaths were blamed on the huge storm system.

Blizzard warnings were posted for parts of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine, where as much as 2 feet of snow was possible.

The storm's cold, snow, sleet and rain made life difficult for Valentine's Day messengers.

"Cold. Slippery. Nobody has their sidewalks sanded," said Caroline Roggero at Rose Petal Florist in Newport, R.I. "They all want their delivery today."

The storm was a convenient excuse for husbands and boyfriends who forgot to send flowers.

Some delivery drivers got stuck on the roads. Flowers delivered to offices were turned away because the businesses were closed. And customers had to change their orders to have flowers delivered to homes instead of places of work.

"We're hoping people will understand we're doing the best we can do," said Pat Jarvis at Dwyer Florist in Northampton, Mass.

The 15,000-member Society of American Florists says Valentine's Day accounts for more than a third of annual sales. Spokeswoman Jennifer Sparks said most florists have four-wheel drive vehicles, and many tried to deliver flowers early.

Americans were predicted to spend $16.9 billion this Feb. 14, according to the National Retail Federation's annual Valentine's Day survey. More than 45 percent of consumers planned an evening out.

Edigio DiPaola, owner of Spennato's Restaurant in Northfield, Ohio, - a good place for a romantic dinner with its low lighting, intimate tables, lace tablecloths, Italian wine and marinara sauce - was not expecting much of a Valentine's Day crowd, not with 15 inches of snow on the ground and the temperature in the single digits.

"We are dead," he said, his heavily Italian-accented voice dripping with disappointment. "No one's on the roads. We don't expect anything tonight. It's very bad news - this was a big day for us. Now it will be way below average."

Vermont's state government ordered all nonessential employees home after noon, the New York Capitol in Albany came to a near-halt, and some Pennsylvania state workers were told to stay home. Maine's governor declared a state of emergency to ensure deliveries of heating oil, and New York's governor activated the National Guard.

In upstate New York, more than a foot of snow had fallen by midday in Herkimer County in the Adirondacks, and up to 3 feet of snow was possible. But the brunt of the storm bypassed towns near the east end of Lake Ontario that had been buried by 10 feet and more of lake-effect snow over the past week.

It was too cold and snowy even to make snow angels. Syracuse school officials had planned to try setting a world record for most snow angels in one place on Thursday, but postponed the effort, citing the weather.

In the Midwest, Springfield, Ill., got 16 inches of snow, and stiff wind piled the snow into drifts as high as 9 feet in parts of Indiana.

Hundreds of flights were canceled Wednesday at the New York City area's three major airports and in Albany, Boston, Washington, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Indianapolis.

About 300,000 customers lost power in Ohio, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, Indiana and New York's Long Island.

The huge weather system was blamed for three deaths in Nebraska; two each in Indiana, New Jersey and Delaware; and one each in Missouri and Ohio. A tornado on the southern side of the huge weather system killed one person in Louisiana.

The storm was good news for the ski industry in New England, where snow has been sparse this winter.

"Best day of the year," snowboarder Willie Bozack, 28, of Moretown, Vt., said outside the base lodge at Sugarbush Resort. "It's epic."

Judge lets evangelist sister handle songwriter's estate; children worried about prayer, money

CINCINNATI (AP) - The children of a hit country music songwriter won't get control of his estate, a judge ruled, but a bigger battle looms between them and their aunt, an evangelist with a worldwide ministry.

Darrell "Wayne" Perry's four children have sued their aunt Darlene Bishop, saying she hastened her brother's death by promising to use prayer to cure the throat cancer that killed him and discouraging him from receiving medical treatment.

Separately, a judge on Monday rejected their request to remove their aunt as executor of the estate and replace her with one of Perry's sons.

Wayne Perry's songs include Tim McGraw's "Not a Moment Too Soon," Toby Keith's "A Woman's Touch" and Lorrie Morgan's hit "What Part Of No." He died of throat cancer in 2005 at age 55.

Perry's heirs alleged that Bishop took money intended for them, including payment from a $260,000 insurance policy, and refused to disburse Perry's assets to them as he had intended.

Probate Judge Randy Rogers ruled Monday that the children failed to prove their claim, and he found no grounds for removing Bishop, who is co-pastor of the Solid Rock megachurch outside Cincinnati.

He ruled that the insurance policy named Bishop as the sole beneficiary. Perry's children had argued that their father bought the policy intending the money to go to them, but Rogers ruled that the policy was not part of the estate or the trust.

The judge said that errors were made in executing the estate, but that they have already been corrected or can be in a reasonable time.

"I'm madder than fire," said Bryan Perry, the songwriter's oldest son and the title plaintiff in the probate challenge and the accompanying wrongful death lawsuit. "The evidence we had was completely overwhelming."

He said the judge's decision would be appealed. "This is not fair," he said. "We're all floored."

Bishop said that despite her brother's success, he had nothing left when he died.

"Wayne lived very large. He bought every toy you could buy - four wheelers, Jet Skis - but he hadn't had a hit song for five years," Bishop said. "He died broke; he had borrowed against his royalties."

She said his children's estimate of the value of his unpublished songs - maybe $1 million - was way off base.

"He wrote hundreds of songs, but they're not worth the paper they're wrote on unless somebody records them," Bishop said.

Perry had moved from Nashville, Tenn., to Monroe, about 25 miles north of Cincinnati, to live with his sister in 2003, after learning he had cancer. According to Bishop's Web site, her weekly TV program "Sisters" is seen on Christian networks in more than 200 countries.

Perry's children alleged that Bishop told their father that she cured herself of breast cancer through prayer and that she could cure his cancer the same way.

"It's been a sad thing," Bishop said of the family feud. "The bottom line is, the truth came out."

The issue of prayer therapy was not addressed as part of the probate battle, but will be as part of the wrongful-death lawsuit filed in April 2006.

Bishop said she had trouble during the course of the lawsuit following her lawyers' advice to be silent. Wednesday, she proclaimed her innocence.

"I've never taken a dime," she said. "All I want to do is what's right. I'm a giver, not a taker. It's so sad when people think wrong of you, and you know your heart's right before God."

On the Net:

Darlene Bishop Ministries: http://www.darlenebishop.org

Rescuers save many Mozambicans from floodwaters, but some refuse to go

COCORICO, Mozambique (AP) - Relief workers used dugout canoes, motorboats and a U.N. helicopter to rescue villagers from rising floodwaters Wednesday, but others refused to go because it would mean leaving their crops and livestock.

Torrential rains have deluged southern Africa since December, killing more than 100 people, including 40 in Mozambique. The floods have destroyed thousands of acres of crops, washed out roads and bridges and uprooted utility poles.

Despite memories of floods that killed 800 Mozambicans six years ago, some resisted evacuation orders, even as waters submerged fields within sight of their huts and the only visible remains of neighbors' homes were the tops of thatched roofs peeking above newly formed lakes.

"No chickens, no goats!" a U.N. official declared firmly, relaying instructions for the evacuation as the white helicopter swooped down and landed in front of the water pump on Cocorico island, where about 120 people were reported trapped by rising waters.

The island appeared deserted except for two black goats tethered to a loofah tree and a rooster scratching in the damp earth.

Then a man came crashing through the bush, trousers rolled up and legs wet to the thigh: Felizado Markush told rescuers he managed to evacuate 117 islanders in boats despite engine trouble and a shortage of fuel.

"We've been trying for two days and we finally managed to reach them this morning," said Markush, a pastor at the African Assembly of God Church from Chupanga, the nearest town.

But others were refusing to leave, not wanting to abandon their homes, their corn crops and the livestock that is their life's savings.

The U.N. official, operations chief Jaco Klopper, was exasperated. "This is the problem: people don't want to leave their goats, then the waters rise and they end up clinging to trees and we have to come and save them."

The relief workers talked about forcing those remaining to leave, but a flyover of the island turned up several canoes that could be used by stragglers.

Officials in Mozambique already have evacuated more than 80,600 people - half of those under threat, according to Paulo Zucula, head of the national disaster relief agency. Most are subsistence farmers who grow corn and rice and own a few cattle or goats.

He said he expects the flooding to be worse than in 2001, when floods hit at the end of the rainy season. With six weeks of rain remaining, water levels are still rising - even threatening Caia, the farming center that is headquarters for the relief effort.

But Zucula said he expects far fewer casualties this year because of an early warning system and other measures put in place after the last deadly floods. "We knew in October that we were going to have problems and started on the ground in early December," he said.

There are food shortages in places cut off by flooding, however, and officials began airlifting food to villages on Tuesday. An airlift was ordered Wednesday for Samarucha, where 5,000 displaced villagers were stranded.

Luis Doluis, a 37-year-old farmer, was among 2,300 people living rough under plastic sheeting set over wooden poles at a camp on the outskirts of Chupanga town. He said he, his wife and their seven children were saved by boat Friday from high ground near the submerged hut where they once lived.

"But there are two other villages that the boats can't reach," he said.

New $1 coin features George Washington - just in time for first president's birthday

WASHINGTON (AP) - George Washington's birthday celebration will have a golden tinge this year. Millions of new gold-colored dollar coins bearing the first president's likeness are being introduced in time for the festivities.

The question is whether people will reject them as they did the two previous $1 coins.

U.S. Mint officials are hoping they have overcome the problems that doomed the Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea dollars. Coin experts are skeptical.

The new $1 coins, the first in a series featuring four presidents a year, were to go into circulation on Thursday, just before next week's President's Day celebrations.

Learning from past mistakes, the Mint is making sure the coins will be widely available so people will not be disappointed when they show up at banks looking for the coins.

So far the Federal Reserve, the Mint's distribution agent, has placed orders for 300 million of the Washington coins. Many have already been delivered to commercial banks under orders not to begin selling them to customers until Thursday.

"For the vast majority of Americans, they will be able to get the new dollar coin on the day that we issue it," Mint Director Edmund C. Moy said in an interview with The Associated Press.

The changing design with a new president every three months is an effort to match the phenomenal success of the 50-state quarter program that has attracted more than 125 million collectors.

While the government is making a more concerted effort to promote the dollar coin this time around. Coin experts, however, said they are not convinced that the results will be much different from the widely avoided Anthony and Sacagawea coins.

"I don't know of any country that has successfully introduced the equivalent of a dollar coin without getting rid of the corresponding paper unit," said Douglas Mudd, the author of a new book on the history of money, "All the Money in the World."

"If the new one-dollar coins are going to win, then one-dollar bills will have to lose," said Jeff C. Garrett, president of the Professional Numismatists Guild.

On the Net:

U.S. Mint: www.usmint.gov

Heather Mills McCartney visits British police station to discuss `issues,' police say

LONDON (AP) - Heather Mills McCartney visited a police station near her home in Hove on Wednesday to discuss unspecified issues, Sussex Police said.

A spokesman for the 38-year-old former model said Mills McCartney had received death threats since her split last year from ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, 64.

Sussex Police said Mills McCartney spoke to detectives at a station near her home in Hove, 50 miles south of London, by appointment.

"It was a preplanned meeting for her to discuss a number of issues," a spokeswoman for the force said on customary police condition of anonymity. "The meeting did not relate to anything specific and she was not arrested."

Mills McCartney has complained of being harassed and vilified by the media. Her spokesman, Phil Hall, said she had received death threats.

"She has been subject to death threats and there has been ongoing communication with Sussex Police about that," Hall said. "I imagine it's to do with that."

The couple announced their separation in May and began divorce proceedings in July. They have a 3-year-old daughter, Beatrice.