| Ukraine issues ultimatum to free navy chief Posted: 19 Mar 2014 10:29 AM PDT  Acting president threatens 'technical and technological' response if hostages are not released.
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| Kenya's wildlife protectors infiltrated by rhino horn cartel Posted: 19 Mar 2014 08:33 AM PDT  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A famed scientist and founding former chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service urged Kenya's president on Wednesday to invoke emergency measures to protect the country's elephants and rhinos from a poaching crisis sweeping Africa.
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| Russell Crowe, 'Noah' makers fail at bid for papal photo-op Posted: 19 Mar 2014 10:08 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Actor Russell Crowe and the makers of the big-budget film "Noah" attended Pope Francis' general audience Wednesday but didn't get what they most wanted: a papal meeting and photo-op.
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| Dash cam: Airborne truck narrowly misses roadside cops Posted: 19 Mar 2014 07:18 AM PDT  An Iowa man driving on I-80 last week was rear-ended by a semi, causing his pickup truck to go airborne, hit a squad car and land in a ditch.
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| NATO: 'Wake-up call' to new Cold War Posted: 19 Mar 2014 08:56 AM PDT  Chief's speech: Advances on Ukraine by Putin's Russia are top threats to Europe security since Cold War.
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| US files charge against Toyota, $1.2B penalty Posted: 19 Mar 2014 09:33 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government announced a $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota Motor Corp. on Wednesday and filed a criminal charge alleging the company defrauded consumers by issuing misleading statements about safety issues in Toyota and Lexus vehicles. The penalty is the largest of its kind ever imposed on an auto company, the Justice Department said.
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| APNewsBreak: NYC inmate 'baked to death' in cell Posted: 19 Mar 2014 10:28 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Jerome Murdough was just looking for a warm place to sleep on a chilly night last month when he curled up in an enclosed stairwell on the roof of a Harlem public housing project where he was arrested for trespassing.
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| Israeli airstrikes escalate tensions with Syria Posted: 19 Mar 2014 09:59 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes unleashed a series of airstrikes on Syrian military posts early Wednesday, killing one soldier and wounding seven in one of the most serious clashes between the countries in the past four decades.
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| Court reverses convictions in aiding-suicide case Posted: 19 Mar 2014 08:40 AM PDT  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed the convictions of a former nurse accused of encouraging two people whom he met online to kill themselves.
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| Ex-al-Qaida spokesman tells of meeting bin Laden Posted: 19 Mar 2014 10:04 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — In surprise testimony in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law recounted the night of the Sept. 11 attacks, when the al-Qaida leader sent a messenger to drive him into a mountainous area for a meeting inside a cave in Afghanistan.
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| Maine man's 'gun' turns out to be a tattoo Posted: 19 Mar 2014 07:23 AM PDT  NORRIDGEWOCK, Maine (AP) — Police armed with assault rifles descended on a Maine man's home after members of a tree removal crew he'd told to clear off his property reported that he had a gun.
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| Malaysia, FBI probing data from pilot's simulator Posted: 19 Mar 2014 09:14 AM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian investigators — with the help of the FBI — are trying to restore files deleted last month from the home flight simulator of the pilot aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane to see if they shed any light on the disappearance, officials said Wednesday.
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| Lapses during airport attack draw harsh reactions Posted: 19 Mar 2014 10:42 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles International Airport is inexcusably lacking in its capacity to deal with a crisis, local and national government officials said, describing communication lapses described in a report on last year's deadly airport shooting as a "failure" and an "embarrassment."
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| Ukraine's Crimea base taken, commander detained Posted: 19 Mar 2014 07:56 AM PDT SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) — Masked Russian-speaking troops on Wednesday seized control of Ukrainian naval headquarters in Crimea after it was stormed by militiamen. Pro-Moscow Crimean authorities also detained the Ukrainian navy commander and reportedly blocked the defense minister and another government official from traveling to the peninsula in what they said was a bid to defuse tensions. |
| Gun used against Pope John Paul II to be exhibited Posted: 19 Mar 2014 08:50 AM PDT  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The gun used by a would-be assassin to shoot Pope John Paul II will be on display at a museum dedicated to the pontiff as a sign of God's protection of him, according to priests in charge of the museum.
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| 2 winning tickets in $400M Mega Millions jackpot Posted: 19 Mar 2014 09:26 AM PDT  MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — The holders of two lucky tickets sold states apart will split a $400 million Mega Millions jackpot, the sixth-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.
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| What annexing Crimea will cost Russia's government Posted: 19 Mar 2014 09:26 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Despite the pebble beaches and cliff-hanging castles that made Crimea famous as a Soviet resort hub, the Black Sea peninsula has long been a corruption-riddled backwater in economic terms. The Kremlin, which decided to take the region from Ukraine after its residents voted in a referendum to join Russia, has begun calculating exactly what it will cost to support Crimea's shambolic economy — which one Russian minister described as "no better than Palestine."
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| $1.2B Toyota safety settlement deal Posted: 19 Mar 2014 06:13 AM PDT  The deal stems from an investigation into how the auto maker disclosed safety issues.
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| Seattle looks at helipad rules after deadly crash Posted: 19 Mar 2014 06:23 AM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — The news helicopter had just stopped at a helipad to refuel on its way to another assignment when it crashed and burst into flames yards from the Space Needle in the heart of Seattle, killing the two men on board and seriously injuring a third man who was on fire when he escaped from his car.
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| Russian military starts aviation exercises Posted: 19 Mar 2014 05:59 AM PDT  By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's military started large-scale aviation exercises in the northwest on Wednesday, officials said, close to Baltic ex-Soviet republics that are members of NATO and wary of Russia after its annexation of Crimea. The exercises involving jet fighters and bombers were being conducted in regions that do not border Ukraine. A senior Russian military source said they had been planned in December and had no political significance. The drill ends in late March, it cited a spokesman for the Western Military District, Colonel Oleg Kochetkov, as saying.
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| Malaysia: Files deleted from flight simulator Posted: 19 Mar 2014 06:02 AM PDT  Investigators say files are missing from the home flight simulator of Flight 370's pilot.
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| Crimean forces take Ukrainian navy HQ Posted: 19 Mar 2014 02:34 AM PDT  SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) — Crimea's self-defense forces on Wednesday stormed the Ukrainian navy headquarters in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, taking possession without resistance a day after Russia signed a treaty with local authorities to annex the region.
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| Report: Toyota reaches $1B settlement over unintended acceleration Posted: 18 Mar 2014 11:24 PM PDT  The U.S. Justice Department has reached a $1 billion settlement with Toyota Motor Corp over the automaker's handling of consumer complaints tied to unintended vehicle acceleration and is set to announce the agreement as early as Wednesday, CNN reported. Sources familiar with the deal told CNN that Toyota was expected to avoid criminal charges. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan has been probing allegations the Japanese company misled U.S. authorities after the complaints about the unintended acceleration emerged. The acceleration issue prompted Toyota to recall millions of vehicles beginning in 2009.
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| Republicans confident about Senate takeover Posted: 18 Mar 2014 03:08 PM PDT  But would mid-term success translate to a GOP presidential victory in 2016?
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| Washington Post: NSA has telephone 'time machine' program Posted: 18 Mar 2014 01:10 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency has been recording all of a foreign country's phone calls, then listening to the conversations up to a month later, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
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| Journey to the Medal of Honor Posted: 18 Mar 2014 01:28 PM PDT  Sgt. First Class Jose Rodela is awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. President Obama awarded 24 Army veterans the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry in recognition of their valor during major combat operations in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) |
| Thailand defends 'bizarre' delay in reporting radar blips Posted: 18 Mar 2014 11:09 PM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — New radar data from Thailand gave Malaysian investigators more potential clues Wednesday for how to retrace the course of the missing Malaysian airliner, while a massive multinational search unfolded in an area the size of Australia.
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| Obama honors 24 overlooked war vets Posted: 18 Mar 2014 03:07 PM PDT  Medals of Honor given to servicemen from 3 wars after past was examined for prejudice.
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| Outrage in Italy after thieves steal part of Pompeii fresco Posted: 18 Mar 2014 12:39 PM PDT  Thieves have stolen part of an ancient fresco from Pompeii, breaking in to a closed area of the UNESCO World Heritage landmark and chipping off a portrait of a Greek deity. A custodian doing rounds last week discovered "the removal of a part of a fresco in the House of Neptune," where a depiction of the goddess Artemis had been "chiseled off with a metallic object," the Roman site's curator department said in a statement Tuesday. The discovery sparked outrage in Italy, with newspaper Il Messaggero describing it as "a shame for the country", made doubly embarrassing by the recent appointment of a new superintendent for the site. The European Union's Culture Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou said she was "truly saddened" by the theft, telling ANSA news agency that the robbers "have stolen a priceless patrimony which belongs to all citizens, Italian and European, and future generations".
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| Okla. executions rescheduled due to lack of drugs Posted: 18 Mar 2014 03:12 PM PDT  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma court on Tuesday rescheduled a pair of executions set for this week and next so state prison officials will have more time to find a supply of drugs for the lethal injections.
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| Obama to honor 24 overdue Medal of Honor recipients Posted: 18 Mar 2014 05:45 AM PDT  Recipient Melvin Morris recounts his actions of valor in Vietnam
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| GM CEO apologizes amid growing recall scandal Posted: 18 Mar 2014 03:04 PM PDT  Automaker is facing intense criticism over deaths tied to delayed recall of 1.6M cars.
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