Report: Alps crash pilot told ex 'everyone will know my name'

Report: Alps crash pilot told ex 'everyone will know my name'
Search continues for at least 2 after apparent NYC gas blast
Student group that revealed racist SAE video causes change at Oklahoma
Saudis say tracking Yemen rebel groups headed to border
Defense moves into spotlight in Boston Marathon bombing trial
Angie's List halts expansion over Indiana law seen targeting gays
Minnesota finds third bird flu infection in commercial poultry
Amanda Knox murder conviction overturned
Ferguson grand jury wanted to make public statement, documents reveal
Crash co-pilot's personality 'serious lead' but not only one: French investigator
Astronauts board space station for 1-year mission

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 10:00 AM PDT

German prosecutors cite "medical documents that suggest an existing illness and appropriate medical treatment."

Search continues for at least 2 after apparent NYC gas blast

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 09:51 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Emergency workers continued searching Saturday for at least two people still missing after an apparent gas line explosion leveled three Manhattan apartment buildings while investigators piece together what exactly caused the blast that injured 22.

Student group that revealed racist SAE video causes change at Oklahoma

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 04:56 PM PDT

At a press conference announcing the findings of an investigation into a racist chant that prompted the shuttering of Sigma Alpha Epsilon's Oklahoma University chapter and the expulsion of two fraternity members, OU President David Boren saluted the student activists of Unheard, who first brought the now widely viewed SAE video to light.

Saudis say tracking Yemen rebel groups headed to border

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 10:26 AM PDT

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Saudi Arabia says that multiple groups of Yemeni Shiite rebels are moving toward the two countries' shared border.

Defense moves into spotlight in Boston Marathon bombing trial

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 04:04 AM PDT

By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Marathon bombing trial shifts sharply in tone next week when prosecutors rest their case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and turn proceedings over to his lawyers, who have already admitted he planted explosives at the finish line in April 2013. One of Tsarnaev's lawyers, death penalty specialist Judy Clarke, opened the trial on March 4 with a blunt statement to the jury that "it was him" who killed three people and injured 264 in the attack. Clarke contended, however, that the 21-year-old played a secondary role to his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in planning and executing the plot. Her goal: Persuade jurors in federal court in Boston that Tsarnaev deserves a sentence of life in prison rather than the death penalty.

Angie's List halts expansion over Indiana law seen targeting gays

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 10:11 AM PDT

The company behind the Angie's List business-rating website on Saturday put on hold a planned expansion of its Indianapolis headquarters over a new Indiana law that opponents say could allow companies to deny services to gay people. The decision by Angie's List Inc comes amid criticism of the so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which was passed overwhelmingly by both champers of the Republican led-state legislature and signed into law on Thursday by Indiana Governor Mike Pence. Supporters say the legislation will keep the government from forcing business owners to act against strongly held religious beliefs. Opponents say it is discriminatory against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and broader than other states' religious freedom laws.

Minnesota finds third bird flu infection in commercial poultry

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 10:15 AM PDT

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Saturday confirmed the third infection of a virulent strain of avian flu in a commercial poultry flock in Minnesota, the nation's top turkey-producing state. A case of H5N2 flu was found in a flock of 39,000 turkeys in Stearns County, which is northwest of Minneapolis, according to a notice from USDA. Recent infections of avian flu in states stretching from Arkansas to Oregon have prompted overseas buyers to limit imports of U.S. poultry from companies such as Tyson Foods Inc, Pilgrim's Pride Corp and Sanderson Farms Inc. The USDA is developing a vaccine to protect poultry from new strains of avian flu, including H5N2, but has no plans to distribute it yet.

Amanda Knox murder conviction overturned

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 09:33 PM PDT

Italy's highest court rules in favor of the American and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito.

Ferguson grand jury wanted to make public statement, documents reveal

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 04:49 PM PDT

A week before the Ferguson grand jury chose not to charge police Officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown, it was denied a request to make a public statement about the controversial case, court documents filed Friday reveal.

Crash co-pilot's personality 'serious lead' but not only one: French investigator

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 07:18 AM PDT

"We have a certain number of elements which allow us to make progress on this lead, which is a serious lead but which can't be the only one," police chief Jean-Pierre Michel told AFP in the western German city of Duesseldorf. The investigation so far has not turned up a "particular element" in the life of co-pilot Andreas Lubitz which could explain his alleged action in the ill-fated Airbus plane, he added.

Astronauts board space station for 1-year mission

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 09:43 PM PDT

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — Two Russians and an American floated into the International Space Station on Saturday, beginning what is to be a year away from Earth for two of them.