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North Korea says it is in 'a state of war' with South Korea

North Korea says it is in 'a state of war' with South Korea


North Korea says it is in 'a state of war' with South Korea

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 06:43 AM PDT

A visitor looks at North Korean territory at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 30, 2013. North Korea issued its latest belligerent threat Saturday, saying it has entered "a state of war" with South Korea a day after its young leader threatened the United States because two American B-2 bombers flew a training mission in South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)North Korea warned Seoul on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula was entering "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.


Cyprus bank's big savers to lose up to 60 percent

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 10:27 AM PDT

Personas hacen fila mientras un guardia de seguridad abre la puerta de una sucursal del banco Laiki en Nicosia, el viernes 29 de marzo de 2013. Los bancos en Chipre abrieron normalmente por segundo día pero continúan los límites a los retiros de dinero ante la crisis financiera. (AP Foto/Petros Giannakouris)Big depositors at Cyprus' largest bank may be forced to accept losses far more than initially estimated to save the country from bankruptcy, officials said.


Patients of Tulsa doctor line up to get tested

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 10:35 AM PDT

This 1977 license picture provided by the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry shows Dr. Scott Harrington. Health officials urged thousands of patients of Harrington, an oral surgeon, to undergo hepatitis and HIV testing, saying unsanitary conditions behind his office's spiffy facade posed a threat to his clients and made him a "menace to the public health." (AP Photo/Oklahoma Board of Dentistry)About 150 to 200 patients of a Tulsa oral surgeon accused of unsanitary practices queued outside a health clinic Saturday, hoping to discover whether they were exposed to hepatitis or the virus that causes AIDS.


Lawmakers tighten belts amid automatic budget cuts

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 12:05 AM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2011 file photo, House Budget Committee member Rep. John Campbell, R-Calif. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Members of Congress are traveling less and worrying more about meeting office salaries. Their aides are having to deal with longer lines and fewer prospects of a raise. Such are the indignities thrust upon the people who brought the country $85 billion in automatic government spending cuts this month. "We've drastically reduced travel both for myself and my staff," said Campbell, who must go cross-country to visit his southern California district (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)Members of Congress are traveling less and worrying more about meeting office salaries. Their aides are contending with long lines to get inside their offices and fewer prospects of a raise.


Phil Ramone, Grammy-winning producer, dead at 72

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 10:52 AM PDT

In this Oct. 6, 2008 photo, Arts Advocacy Award honoree Phil Ramone attends the 2008 National Arts Awards presented by Americans For The Arts at Cipriani's 42nd St. in New York. Ramone, the Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer whose platinum touch included recordings with Ray Charles, Billy Joel and Paul Simon, has died. He was 72. His son, Matt Ramone, confirmed the death. Phil Ramone was among the most honored and successful music producers in history, winning 14 Grammys and working with many of the top artists of his era. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)Phil Ramone, the Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer whose platinum touch included recordings with Ray Charles, Billy Joel and Paul Simon, has died at 72.


Reward for dead California fugitive policeman shrinks

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 09:54 AM PDT

Authorities stand at the site of a burnt out cabin near Angelus OaksA second group has pulled its money from a pooled $1.2 million reward offered during a manhunt for a renegade former California policeman who died in a fiery standoff, a Los Angeles television station said.


After 55 years, Ohio's Easter Eggshelland comes to an end

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 08:47 AM PDT

Handout of a portrait of Manolio made of colored eggs in LyndhurstAfter more than 50 years, loyal fans have one last chance to visit Easter-themed mosaics made of thousands of brightly colored eggs on a lawn in an eastern suburb of Cleveland.


Authorities: $600M scheme incubated in NC town

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 06:58 AM PDT

In this Feb. 28, 2013 photo, Sarah Chavez, center, sits with her son Bidal, right, and daughter Sarahi, front, at her home in Lexington, N.C. Desperate to raise money for their 6-year-old daughter's cancer treatments last summer, friends told Jose and Sarah Chavez of a way to quickly turn their meager savings into a small fortune. But what the Chavez family and many others didn't know was that state and federal regulators for months had received complaints that ZeekRewards was a scam. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)In the hardware store on South Main Street, the owner pulled Caron Myers aside to tell her about the best thing to happen in years to this once-thriving furniture and textile town.


Three dozen indicted in Atlanta cheating scandal

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 12:40 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 13, 2011 file photo, outgoing schools superintendent, Dr. Beverly Hall, center, arrives for her last Atlanta school board meeting at the Atlanta Public Schools headquarters in Atlanta. Hall and nearly three dozen other administrators, teachers, principals and other educators were indicted Friday, March 29, 2013, in one of the nation's largest cheating scandals. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Curtis Compton) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; WXIA-TV OUT; WGCL-TV OUTJuwanna Guffie was sitting in her fifth-grade classroom taking a standardized test when, authorities say, the teacher came around offering information and asking the students to rewrite their answers ...


Senior Russian diplomat urges restraint over North Korea

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 05:22 AM PDT

North Koreans attend a rally in support of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's order to put its missile units on standby in preparation for a possible war against the U.S. and South Korea, in PyongyangMoscow urged restraint in the Korean peninsula on Saturday, after North Korea said it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea in a further escalation of its bellicose rhetoric ...


U.S. commandos hand over troubled area to Afghans

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 06:27 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 file photo a member of the Afghan special forces, left, briefs soldiers after a training exercise on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. A senior U.S. commander said Saturday, March 30, 2013 that American special operations forces have handed over their base in eastern Afghanistan's Nirkh district to local Afghan commandos -- meeting a demand by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that U.S. forces withdraw from the district after allegations that their Afghan counterparts committed human rights abuses there. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)U.S. special operations forces handed over their base in a strategic district of eastern Afghanistan to local Afghan special forces on Saturday, a senior U.S. commander said ...


Kansas couple: Indoor gardening prompted pot raid

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 06:32 PM PDT

Bob Harte stands next to his now shut down indoor garden in the basement of his home in Leawood, Kan., Friday, March 29, 2013. Harte and his wife Adlynn, who are former CIA employees, sued this week to get more information about why sheriff's deputies searched their home in the upscale Kansas City suburb last April 20 as part of Operation Constant Gardener — a sweep conducted by agencies in Kansas and Missouri that netted marijuana plants, processed marijuana, guns, growing paraphernalia and cash from several other locations. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)Two former CIA employees whose Kansas home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana claim they were illegally targeted.


Giant panda artificially inseminated at U.S. National Zoo

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 10:34 AM PDT

Veterinarians at the National Zoo artificially inseminated the zoo's female giant panda Mei Xiang on Saturday after natural breeding failed to occur, zoo keepers said.

Kenya Supreme Court upholds election result

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 08:47 AM PDT

Uhuru Kenyatta,s supporters smile after the six Supreme Court judges , led by Chief Justice Willy Mutunga, Uhuru Kenyatta was declared as president in Nairobi Saturday, March 30, 2013. Kenya's Supreme Court said results of the country's March 4 presidential; election are valid and that Uhuru Kenyatta won Saturday's verdict , follwing a drawn out court case that riveted the nation . (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)Kenya's Supreme Court on Saturday upheld the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as the country's next president, ending an election season that riveted the nation amid fears of a repeat of the 2007-08 postelection violence.


China: No signs of life in mine landslide

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 08:01 PM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, earthmovers remove rocks and mud on the scene where a landslide hit a mining area in Maizhokunggar County of Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on Friday, March 29, 2013. The large landslide trapped dozens of workers in the gold mining area, state media reported. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Chogo) NO SALESChinese media says rescuers are searching for 83 buried workers.


South African official: Mandela better from pneumonia

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 07:54 AM PDT

Children look through a fence at a portrait of former president Nelson Mandela in a Park in Soweto, South Africa, Thursday, March, 28, 2013. 94-year-old Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa's first black president, has been hit by a lung infection again and is in a hospital, the presidency said. Mandela, has become increasingly frail in recent years and has been hospitalized several times in recent months, including earlier this month when he underwent what authorities said was a scheduled medical test. The Nobel laureate is a revered figure in South Africa, which has honored his legacy of reconciliation by naming buildings and other places after him and printing his image on national banknotes. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)A South African official says Nelson Mandela is breathing "without difficulty" after having a procedure to clear fluid in his lung area that was caused by pneumonia.


2 Wash. boys to stand trial for murder conspiracy

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 02:12 AM PDT

A northeast Washington judge has found two boys, ages 10 and 11, competent to stand trial in juvenile court on a murder conspiracy charge.

Death toll in Tanzania building collapse rises to 19

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 04:23 AM PDT

An aerial view shows bystanders watching rescuers search for survivors amongst the rubble of a collapsed building in the Kariakoo district of central Dar es SalaamThe death toll from the collapse of a building in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam has climbed to 19, a senior official said on Saturday. ...


Justin Bieber's monkey quarantined in Germany

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 05:45 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 28, 2013 file picture Canadian singer Justin Bieber performs on stage during the "I Believe Tour " in Munich, southern Germany. A German official says Justin Bieber had to leave a monkey in quarantine after arriving in the country last week without the necessary papers for the animal. The 19-year-old singer arrived at Munich airport last Thursday. Customs spokesman Thomas Meister said Saturday March 30, 2013 that when he went through customs he didn't have the documentation necessary to bring the capuchin monkey into the country - so the animal had to stay with authorities. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader,File)A German official says Justin Bieber had to leave a monkey in quarantine after arriving in the country last week without the necessary papers for the animal.


NASA's 'Super Guppy' swallows supersonic NASA jets

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 04:24 AM PDT

NASA 'Super Guppy' Swallows Supersonic NASA Jets (Photos)Two supersonic NASA jets were swallowed whole by the space agency's outsized Super Guppy Transport plane in California this month so that they could be ferried to Texas.


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