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4 bodies pulled from wreckage of Conn. plane crash

4 bodies pulled from wreckage of Conn. plane crash


4 bodies pulled from wreckage of Conn. plane crash

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 11:04 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board NTSB senior air safety investigator Bob Gretz, back to camera, confers with emergency responders on the scene of Friday Aug. 9, 2013 morning's crash of a Rockwell 960B airplane into a neighbohood in East Haven, Conn. (AP Photo/National Transportation Safety Board)Four bodies have been recovered from the site of a plane crash in a residential Connecticut neighborhood, a fire official said. Those presumed dead are the pilot, a former Microsoft executive, his teenage son and two children in a home struck by the plane.


6 boat migrants drown off popular Sicilian beach

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 07:40 AM PDT

Italian police officers stand next to the lifeless bodies of six migrants who, according to Italian coast guard officials, drowned after their boat ran aground on a sandbar and they tried to swim to shore, near Catania, southern Italy, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013. The boat, with some 100 migrants aboard, became stranded early Saturday 15 meters (50 feet) off a beach popular with tourists and locals. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi)Six migrants drowned after their boat ran aground Saturday on a sandbar off a popular Sicilian holiday beach and they tried in vain to swim to shore, authorities said.


Car in Calif. missing teen case found in Idaho

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 06:26 AM PDT

Alleged Teen Kidnapper Might Be Carrying Explosives: PoliceAuthorities also positively identified the charred body of the girl's younger brother.


Syria's Muslim Brotherhood faces uphill battle

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 08:51 AM PDT

FILE - In this January 2, 2013, file photo, a Syrian rebel plays soccer in the Saif al-Dawlah neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. For Syria's banned Muslim Brotherhood, the uprising against President Bashar Assad that erupted amid Arab Spring revolts in 2011 provided a long-sought opportunity to stage a comeback after decades spent in exile. (AP Photo/Andoni Lubacki, File)BEIRUT (AP) — For Syria's banned Muslim Brotherhood, the uprising against President Bashar Assad that erupted amid Arab Spring revolts in 2011 provided a long-sought opportunity to stage a comeback after decades spent in exile.


Funeral held for slain militants in Egypt's Sinai

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 08:41 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 7, 2007, file photo, the Israeli army Heron TP drone, also known locally as the Eitan, flies during a display at the Palmahim Air Force Base in Palmahim, Israel. Egyptian security officials said Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, an Israeli drone fired a missile in the northern Sinai peninsula, killing several suspected Islamic militants and destroying a rocket launcher. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces stood guard at checkpoints as more than 100 cars, some carrying dozens of jihadis, took part in a funeral procession for four slain fighters in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday. A little known militant group, Ansar Jerusalem, said its men were the target of a reported Israeli drone strike in Egyptian territory that killed the four militants.


Obamas return for summer stay on Martha's Vineyard

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 07:36 AM PDT

Meghan Ford of Marshfield, Mass., left, looks through a rack of clothes near a cut-out photograph of President Barack Obama, right, at a shop in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013. The first summer vacation of President Obama's second term is bringing him back to Martha's Vineyard, the well-heeled Massachusetts island. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)WASHINGTON (AP) — The first summer vacation of President Barack Obama's second term is taking him back to Martha's Vineyard, the well-heeled Massachusetts island he avoided during last year's re-election campaign.


6 killed by hot lava as Indonesia volcano erupts

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 09:00 AM PDT

MAUMERE, Indonesia (AP) — Hot lava from an erupting volcano killed six people sleeping in a beach village on a small island in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, after ash and smoke from the volcano shot about a mile into the air, officials said.

US angry over release of Mexican drug lord

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 10:43 AM PDT

The undated file photo distributed by the Mexican government shows Rafael Caro Quintero, considered the grandfather of Mexican drug trafficking. A Mexican court has ordered the release of Caro Quintero after 28 years in prison for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena, a brutal murder that marked a low-point in U.S.-Mexico relations. (AP Photo/File)MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. law enforcement officials expressed outrage over the release from prison of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero and vowed to continue efforts to bring to justice the man who ordered the killing of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent.


TV blackouts aren't shutting out fans completely

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 08:07 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 2,2013, file photo, a television screen shows the CBS channel with an announcement by Time Warner Cable in Los Angeles. Three million Time Warner Cable customers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas are without the CBS channel, as the cable provider says it is dropping the network in a dispute over fees. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — A week into the blackout of CBS programming to millions of Time Warner Cable subscribers, viewers are finding workarounds.


Marina Berlusconi touted as father's heir apparent

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 11:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 21, 2009 file photo Italian former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's daughter Marina Berlusconi looks on, during the Italian Confindustria industrialists and businessmen association assembly in Rome's Auditorium. Italy may get its own political dynasty out of the ashes of Silvio Berlusconi's political career. The nation has been buzzing with speculation that Marina Berlusconi will step in as her father's political heiress ever since the Supreme Court last week confirmed the three-time former premier's tax fraud conviction, jail sentence and ban from politics. Berlusconi's eldest daughter is a long-time executive at his Mediaset media empire and was among a clutch of close advisers by his side at his Rome residence when the court ruled on Aug. 1, 2013. She has in the past repeatedly denied any intention to enter politics, but has remained silent during this new round of speculation. Political analysts say the prospect of a Marina Berlusconi candidacy is realistic. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)MILAN (AP) — Italy may get its own political dynasty out of the ashes of Silvio Berlusconi's political career.


New English-language bookstore a 1st in Havana

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 11:15 PM PDT

Customers read at the English-language bookstore, cafe and literary salon "Cuba Libro" in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013. Cuba Libro operates on food-service and used-book-sales licenses made possible by President Raul Castro's economic and social reforms. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)HAVANA (AP) — Anglophones, rejoice: Cuba's first English-language bookstore, cafe and literary salon opened in Havana on Friday, offering islanders and tourists alike a unique space to converse, thumb through magazines and buy or borrow tomes in the language of Shakespeare.


U.S. angry over release of Mexican drug lord

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 04:38 AM PDT

The undated file photo distributed by the Mexican government shows Rafael Caro Quintero, considered the grandfather of Mexican drug trafficking. A Mexican court has ordered the release of Caro Quintero after 28 years in prison for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena, a brutal murder that marked a low-point in U.S.-Mexico relations. (AP Photo/File)MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. law enforcement officials expressed outrage over the release from prison of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero and vowed to continue efforts to bring to justice the man who ordered the killing of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent.


Obama to address convention of disabled veterans

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 07:17 AM PDT

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013, as they travel to Orlando, Fla. before heading to their vacation in Martha's Vineyard. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is set to tell disabled veterans that the government is making progress in reducing the backlog of disability claims.


Brother: Ex-Microsoft exec, son die in Conn. crash

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 07:14 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board NTSB senior air safety investigator Bob Gretz, back to camera, confers with emergency responders on the scene of Friday Aug. 9, 2013 morning's crash of a Rockwell 960B airplane into a neighbohood in East Haven, Conn. (AP Photo/National Transportation Safety Board)EAST HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A former Microsoft executive and his teenage son are presumed dead after their small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood a few blocks from an airport while trying to land, setting fire to two houses and killing as many as four other people, the man's brother and authorities said.


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