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Pope presides over Easter Vigil service

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 03:11 PM PDT

Pope Francis leads Easter vigil service in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican Saturday, March 30, 2013. Pope Francis is celebrating a trimmed back Easter Vigil service after having reached out to Muslims and women during a Holy Week in which he has begun to put his mark on the Catholic Church. Francis processed into a darkened and silent St. Peter's Basilica at the start of the Saturday service, which recalls the period between Christ's crucifixion on Good Friday and resurrection on Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)Pope Francis celebrated a trimmed-back service after an eventful week.

Authorities: $600M scheme incubated in N.C. town

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 03:07 PM 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)Authorities say Paul Burks was the mastermind of a $600 million Ponzi scheme — one of the biggest in U.S. history.

Navy identifies SEAL killed in Arizona training accident

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 03:09 PM PDT

Navy SEAL Team 6 Member Killed in Parachute AccidentNavy officials said Brett Shadle, 31, of Elizabethville, Pennsylvania, was killed in the free-fall training accident.

Rogue ex-cop's victim makes 1st public appearance

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 04:07 PM PDT

In this Friday, Mar. 29, 2013, photo, Riverside police officer Andrew Tachias, left, is greeted by Aurelio Molendez, vice president of the Riverside Police Officers Association in Riverside, Calif. Tachias, who was nearly killed in an ambush by rogue ex-cop Christopher Dorner, made his first public appearance since the shooting. Tachias was sitting in his patrol car with Officer Michael Crain on Feb. 7 when Dorner pulled alongside them at a stoplight and opened fire. (AP Photo/The Press-Enterprise, David Bauman)A Riverside police officer was nearly killed in an ambush by rogue ex-cop Christopher Dorner.

Patients of Okla. doctor line up for tests

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 04:48 PM PDT

Tulsa dentist may face lawsuitsHundreds are trying to find out whether they were exposed to hepatitis or HIV.

Eiffel Tower evacuated after bomb threat

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 03:20 PM PDT

A man rides bicycle as he makes his way along a snow-covered sidewalk near the Eiffel Tower in ParisThe Eiffel Tower was evacuated Saturday night after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat, police said.

Phil Ramone, Grammy-winning producer, dead at 79

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 02:48 PM 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)The producer's platinum touch included recordings with Ray Charles, Billy Joel and Paul Simon.

AP: Gas trade group seeks fracking probe

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 04:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo of Jan. 17, 2013, Yoko Ono, left, and her son Sean Lennon visit a fracking site in Franklin Forks, Pa., during a bus tour of natural-gas drilling sites in northeastern Pennsylvania. Ono and Lennon have formed a group called A formal complaint filed with New York's lobbying board asks it to investigate whether Artists Against Fracking, a group formed by Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon, is violating the state's lobbying law.

Key groups reach immigration deal as overhaul advances

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 02:29 PM PDT

AFL-CIO President Trumka speaks after a meeting with Obama in WashingtonProspects for a broad U.S. immigration overhaul brightened on Saturday after major U.S. business and labor groups reached an agreement on a guest-worker program, a source familiar with the deal said.

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

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 09:07 AM PDT

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presides over an urgent operation meeting at the Supreme Command in PyongyangNorth Korea said on Saturday it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea, but Seoul and its ally the United States played down the statement as tough talk. Pyongyang also threatened to close a border industrial zone.

L.A. police ID suspect in girl's abduction case

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 03:39 PM PDT

Police on Saturday released the name of a man suspected in the abduction of a 10-year-old girl who was snatched from her San Fernando Valley home before dawn last week and abandoned hours later in front of a hospital.

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.

Egypt issues arrest warrant for TV satirist

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 02:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday Dec. 8, 2012 file photo, Egyptian TV host Bassem Youssef addresses attendants at a gala dinner party in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's state news agency said Saturday, March 30, 2013 that the public prosecution office has issued an arrest warrant against a popular TV satirist for allegedly insulting Islam and the country's president. The warrant issued Saturday is the latest in a series of legal action against Youssef, known as Egypt's Jon Stewart. The warrant comes amid a widening crackdown against opposition figures, driving fears over freedoms of expression and assembly. (AP Photo/Ahmed Omar, File)Egypt's state prosecutors ordered the arrest Saturday of a popular television satirist for allegedly insulting Islam and the country's leader, in a move that government opponents say is aimed at silencing critics of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Body of pilot who fell 2,500 feet from plane found in Tennessee

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 12:54 PM PDT

Search crews in rural Tennessee have found the body of a man who fell an estimated 2,500 feet to his death after the cockpit canopy of his airplane opened, officials said on Saturday.

Man held in Paris over sawed off elephant tusk

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 01:18 PM PDT

Authorities say a man has been arrested overnight for allegedly breaking into Paris' Museum of Natural History and cutting off a tusk from a centuries-old elephant skeleton with a chainsaw.

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.

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 ...

Giant panda artificially inseminated at U.S. National Zoo

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 10:34 AM PDT

File photo of Giant Panda Mei Xiang enjoying her afternoon nap at the National Zoo in WashingtonVeterinarians 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.

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