| Russia rallies support for Crimea Posted: 07 Mar 2014 09:19 AM PST  Across Red Square, 65,000 people waved Russian flags, chanting "Crimea is Russia!"
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| Mom who drove kids into ocean charged with attempted murder Posted: 07 Mar 2014 10:50 AM PST  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A pregnant South Carolina woman who drove a minivan carrying her three young children into the ocean surf off Florida was charged Friday with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse, though she has denied trying to harm anyone, authorities said.
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| Criminal lawyer's ad is subversive, sarcastic and pretty awesome Posted: 07 Mar 2014 07:42 AM PST  Daniel Muessig is a criminal defense attorney not a judge. In an over-the-top online video that's making the rounds, Muessig says, "I'm the Pittsburgh criminal defense attorney Pittsburgh criminals hire when they commit crimes."
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| Mass. governor signs law banning 'upskirt' photos Posted: 07 Mar 2014 10:29 AM PST  BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed a bill on Friday updating the state's voyeurism laws, just two days after the state's highest court ruled that a man who took cellphone photos up the skirts of female subway passengers in Boston wasn't violating the law as written.
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| Army general coerced captain into affair, prosecutors say Posted: 07 Mar 2014 08:22 AM PST  FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — With the Pentagon under increased scrutiny over revelations of rampant rape and sexual misconduct within the ranks, opening statements began Friday in a rare court-martial of an Army general — believed to be the most senior member of the U.S. military to face trial on sex assault charges.
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| Ukraine Paralympic chief says will quit Games if Russia invades Posted: 07 Mar 2014 07:13 AM PST  By Alexei Anishchuk SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Ukraine's Paralympic chief, Valeriy Sushkevich, said on Friday his team would quit the Winter Paralympic Games if Russia invaded his home country, and that he hoped the competition would be able to spread peace instead. Russia is holding the Games in the Black Sea resort of Sochi at a time when it is being criticised for its actions in Ukraine's southern region of Crimea, where the West accuses Russia of seizing military and government institutions. While Putin says he has the right to send in troops to defend Russian compatriots there but that so far he sees no need to do so. "If there is an escalation of the conflict, intervention on the territory of our country, God forbid the worst, we would not be able to stay here, we would go," Sushkevich told a news conference.
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| Fire destroys 'Party Animal' house in Detroit Posted: 07 Mar 2014 08:27 AM PST  DETROIT (AP) — A house covered in stuffed animals and dolls that was a key part of the Heidelberg Project in Detroit became the latest casualty Friday in a 10-month string of suspicious fires that has devastated much of the long-running interactive outdoor art installation.
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| Not me: Calif. man denies he's bitcoin founder Posted: 07 Mar 2014 04:37 AM PST  The denial comes after a published report claims he's behind the virtual currency.
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| Pro-Crimea rally attacts 65,000 to Kremlin Posted: 07 Mar 2014 06:35 AM PST  Over 65,000 people waving Russian flags and banners attended a rally in central Moscow on Friday, in a show of solidarity with pro-Russian authorities in the Ukrainian region of Crimea, police said. The rally, entitled "We are together", which began with Russian pop star Oleg Gazmanov singing patriotic songs, took place just outside the walls of the Kremlin. Crimean parliament speaker Vladimir Konstantinov, who earlier met top lawmakers in Moscow, offered greetings "from Crimea" as he took to the stage amid cheers. "Yesterday we took a historic decision," he said, referring to a request by the autonomous republic's parliament to join Russia, a move they want voters to ratify in a March 16 referendum.
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| U.S. job growth offers upbeat sign for weather-beaten economy Posted: 07 Mar 2014 09:02 AM PST  By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth accelerated sharply in February despite the icy weather that gripped much of the nation, easing fears of an abrupt economic slowdown and keeping the Federal Reserve on track to continue reducing its monetary stimulus. Employers added 175,000 jobs to their payrolls last month after creating 129,000 new positions in January, the Labor Department said on Friday. The unemployment rate, however, rose to 6.7 percent from a five-year low of 6.6 percent, as Americans flooded into the labor market to search for work. "It reinforces the case for the economy being stronger than it's looked for the last couple of months," said Bill Cheney, chief economist at John Hancock Financial Services in Boston.
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| Religious conservatives facing off at conference Posted: 07 Mar 2014 04:56 AM PST  OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The early auditions for the Republican Party's next presidential contest are in full swing at the nation's largest annual gathering of conservative activists, where some of the GOP's most prominent religious conservatives are facing off.
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| Opening statements to begin in general's sex trial Posted: 07 Mar 2014 05:04 AM PST FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — With the Pentagon under increased scrutiny over revelations of rampant rape and sexual misconduct within the ranks, opening statements were set to begin Friday in a rare court-martial of an Army general — believed to be the most senior member of the U.S. military to face trial on sex assault charges. |
| Putin rebuffs Obama's warning on Ukraine Posted: 07 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PST  After an hour-long phone call, Putin says Russia and the U.S. are still far apart.
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| Guard: Pistorius told me 'everything is fine' Posted: 07 Mar 2014 10:07 AM PST  PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius told a concerned security guard on the phone that everything was "fine" after neighbors reported gunshots coming from the athlete's house the night he shot dead his girlfriend, according to testimony in the South African murder trial Friday.
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| Man said to create bitcoin denies it Posted: 07 Mar 2014 08:03 AM PST LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto said Thursday that he is not the creator of bitcoin, adding further mystery to the story of how the world's most popular digital currency came to be. |
| Militant grip transforms, terrorizes Syrian city Posted: 07 Mar 2014 08:46 AM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — Once a vibrant, religiously mixed community, Syria's eastern city of Raqqa is now a shell of its former self, terrorized by hard-line militants who have turned it into the nucleus of their vision for the Islamic caliphate they hope one day to establish in Syria and Iraq.
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| Accuser takes stand in general's sex assault case Posted: 07 Mar 2014 10:53 AM PST FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — On the verge of tears, the captain whose sexual assault accusations triggered the prosecution of an Army general took to the witness stand Friday, testifying that the two had frequent trysts and that she thought her commander's wife knew about her. |
| Colombian paramilitaries set for release Posted: 07 Mar 2014 09:11 AM PST  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — One veteran of Colombia's disbanded far-right militias admitted to ordering or taking part in at least 3,000 killings, mostly targeting leftists , and incinerating many of the corpses to destroy evidence.
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| Tool to compare health plans tested with consumers Posted: 07 Mar 2014 09:39 AM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — A website that offers Illinois consumers more information about insurance costs could help address widespread confusion about choosing a plan on the government sites that are a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's health care law.
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| Ukraine decides to compete in Paralympics in Sochi Posted: 07 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PST SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Ukraine will compete in the Winter Paralympics in Sochi despite Russia's military moves in Crimea. |
| International court convicts Congo rebel leader Posted: 07 Mar 2014 05:48 AM PST  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court on Friday convicted a rebel leader of charges including murder and pillage over a deadly attack on a village in eastern Congo, but acquitted him of rape, sexual slavery and using child soldiers.
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| AP PHOTOS: Women brick-makers in debt in Pakistan Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:03 AM PST  MANDRA, Pakistan (AP) — Amna Bhatti has spent half a century shaping mud into bricks in a huge kiln south of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. She started by paying off her parents' debt and now she's on to her late husband's. She'll probably spend the rest of her life here.
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| Half of millennials more likely to lean Democratic Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:51 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Young adults like to think of themselves as independent, but when it comes to politics, they're more likely than not to lean to the left.
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| Opening statements begin in general's sex trial Posted: 07 Mar 2014 07:03 AM PST FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — With the Pentagon under increased scrutiny over revelations of rampant rape and sexual misconduct within the ranks, opening statements began Friday in a rare court-martial of an Army general — believed to be the most senior member of the U.S. military to face trial on sex assault charges. |
| Recruit describes being quizzed by bin Laden Posted: 06 Mar 2014 05:43 PM PST  American testifies about safe house encounter with terror leader in spring of 2001.
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| Sports medicine pioneer Frank Jobe dies at 88 Posted: 06 Mar 2014 08:28 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dr. Frank Jobe, a pioneering orthopedic surgeon who was the first to perform an elbow procedure that became known as Tommy John surgery and saved the careers of countless major league pitchers, died Thursday. He was 88.
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| Man revealed in report as bitcoin creator denies story Posted: 06 Mar 2014 02:59 PM PST  A reclusive Japanese American man thought to be the father of Bitcoin emerged from his Southern California home and denied any involvement with the digital currency, before leading reporters on a car chase leading to the headquarters of the Associated Press. Satoshi Nakamoto, a name known to legions of bitcoin traders, practitioners and boosters around the world, appeared to lose his anonymity on Thursday after Newsweek published a story that said Nakamoto lived in Temple City, California, just east of Los Angeles, and included a photograph. In the afternoon, Nakamoto stepped outside and told reporters he had nothing to do with bitcoin but was looking for someone who understood Japanese, to buy him a free lunch. According to a Los Angeles Times reporter, who followed his car, Nakamoto was driven to the Associated Press offices in downtown Los Angeles, where he again denied any involvement with bitcoin.
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| Why the SAT had to change Posted: 06 Mar 2014 06:42 AM PST  Earlier this week, high school students were given a surprise gift — the dreaded essay portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test would be going optional in spring 2016.
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| Senate blocks military sexual assault bill Posted: 06 Mar 2014 06:16 PM PST  Defeats effort to move prosecution of serious cases out of the chain of command.
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| Enigmatic bitcoin creator Nakamoto's true identity revealed Posted: 06 Mar 2014 10:40 PM PST  A man named as being the enigmatic creator of Bitcoin has denied having a role in the virtual unit, telling reporters he was "not involved." In an exclusive report, Newsweek identified a 64-year-old Japanese-American physicist as being the mysterious person known as "Satoshi Nakamoto" behind the Bitcoin revolution. However the man, who told the Associated Press (AP) his name is Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, told reporters outside his modest two-story house in suburban Los Angeles: "I'm not involved in Bitcoin." Nakamoto, who was pursued by a media pack as he drove off for an interview at the AP's offices, told the agency that the first time he heard of Bitcoin was when his son told him he had been contacted by a Newsweek reporter three weeks ago.
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