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| Kansas speech by Michelle Obama draws complaints Friday, Apr 18, 2014 03:25 PM PDT  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — If expanding the guest list to include Michelle Obama at graduation for high school students in the Kansas capital city means fewer seats for friends and family, some students and their parents would prefer the first lady not attend. Full Story | Top |
| Kansas City Highway Shooting Suspect Charged With 18 Felonies Friday, Apr 18, 2014 02:59 PM PDT  Man Charged in 9 Shooting Incidents on Kansas City Highways Full Story | Top |
| Student fought bureaucrats for Holocaust justice Saturday, Apr 19, 2014 11:16 AM PDT  AMSTERDAM (AP) — Charlotte van den Berg was a 20-year-old college student working part-time in Amsterdam's city archives when she and other interns came across a shocking find: letters from Jewish Holocaust survivors complaining that the city was forcing them to pay back taxes and late payment fines on property seized after they were deported to Nazi death camps. Full Story | Top |
| Looming, creeping landslide splits home in Wyoming Saturday, Apr 19, 2014 07:09 AM PDT  JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — A slow-motion disaster is unfolding in the Wyoming resort town of Jackson as a creeping landslide that split a hillside home in half inches toward more houses and businesses below. Full Story | Top |
| 4 questions about missing Malaysian plane answered Friday, Apr 18, 2014 11:18 PM PDT  Travelers at Asian airports have asked questions about the March 8 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Here are some of them, followed by answers. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine in 'pivotal period' as deal stalls, US warns Russia Saturday, Apr 19, 2014 08:30 AM PDT  Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russia was under US pressure Saturday to convince pro-Moscow rebels in Ukraine to cease occupying eastern towns, after Washington warned the situation in the former Soviet republic was in a "pivotal period". But with the separatists' refusal to budge throwing a deal to defuse the crisis into doubt, and US sanctions looming large, Russia warned that its military was massed on Ukraine's border, ready to act. In the major eastern city of Donetsk, gunmen remained barricaded inside the regional government building. The failure to implement the agreement hammered out in Geneva on Thursday by the US, Russia, Ukraine and the EU threatened to deepen the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War. Full Story | Top |
| Powerful earthquake rattles Mexico, shakes buildings Friday, Apr 18, 2014 04:51 PM PDT By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake shook Mexico on Friday, damaging more than 100 homes in the southwestern state of Guerrero and opening cracks in some buildings but there were no reports of deaths. Striking close to the popular beach resort of Acapulco, the 7.2 magnitude quake sent people scurrying out of homes and hotels, causing brief panic from the Pacific coast to states in central and eastern parts of Mexico. At least 127, mostly adobe homes were damaged in Guerrero. Some people in Mexico City fled homes in panic when the quake hit. Full Story | Top |
| Plane spotted in Iran is registered to Utah bank Friday, Apr 18, 2014 04:59 PM PDT An airplane that mysteriously ended up in Iran is registered to a Utah bank under an arrangement for aviation ownership that has prompted two warnings from a government watchdog in the past year. The Bombardier ... Full Story | Top |
| Man who avoided prison is overwhelmed by support Friday, Apr 18, 2014 01:28 PM PDT  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri man who avoided prison because of a clerical error and led a law-abiding life for 13 years said he is overwhelmed by the support he's received since the story of his incarceration became public. Full Story | Top |
| Death toll climbs to at least 13 in worst tragedy on Everest Saturday, Apr 19, 2014 05:11 AM PDT  By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Rescuers recovered the body of one mountain guide on Saturday after an ice avalanche swept the lower slopes of Mount Everest, bringing the death toll to at least 13 in the deadliest accident on the world's highest mountain. The avalanche struck a perilous passage called the Khumbu Icefall, which is riddled with crevasses and piled with serac - or huge chunks of ice - that can break free without warning. "We were tied on a rope and carrying gas to camp when there was a sudden hrrrr sound," said Ang Kami Sherpa, 25, one of at least three survivors flown by helicopter to Kathmandu. Some climbers are packing up and calling it quits, they want nothing to do with this," Tim Rippel of Peak Freaks Expeditions wrote in a blog. Full Story | Top |
| Was There Really An Empty Tomb? Friday, Apr 18, 2014 08:22 PM PDT  What makes Jesus different from the prophets of the world's other great religions? The claim that he rose from the dead and left behind an empty tomb. But how much do we know about it? Full Story | Top |
| Current underwater search for Malaysia plane could end within a week Saturday, Apr 19, 2014 01:03 AM PDT  By Matt Siegel and Byron Kaye SYDNEY/PERTH, Australia (Reuters) - The current underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, focused on a tight 10 km (6.2 mile) circle of the sea floor, could be completed within a week, Australian search officials said on Saturday. Malaysia said the search was at a "very critical juncture" and asked for prayers for its success. A U.S. Navy deep-sea autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is scouring a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean floor for signs of the plane, which disappeared from radars on March 8 with 239 people on board. "Provided the weather is favorable for launch and recovery of the AUV and we have a good run with the serviceability of the AUV, we should complete the search of the focused underwater area in five to seven days," the Joint Agency Coordination Centre told Reuters in an email. Full Story | Top |
| Russia says reinforced troops on Ukraine border as precaution Saturday, Apr 19, 2014 04:06 AM PDT The extra Russian military forces near the border with Ukraine have been deployed there in response to instability in Ukraine, a Kremlin spokesman said, in a departure from the previous explanation that they were on routine exercises. Some of these forces are based there permanently, others are there to reinforce, against the backdrop of what is happening in Ukraine itself," Dmitry Peskov, spokesman to Russian President Vladimir Putin said on the Rossiya 1 television station. "Forgive me but, it (Ukraine) is a country where there has just been a military coup, so naturally any country is going to take particular precautionary measures in terms of ensuring its security." He said as a sovereign state, Russia was free to deploy troops anywhere on its territory without restrictions. He denied allegations that the Russian military was interfering in events inside Ukraine territory. Full Story | Top |
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