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13 dead in Mexico fireworks explosion

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 03:58 PM PDT

Hats belonging to victims sit on the hood of a damaged car as emergency workers gather a the scene where a truck loaded with fireworks exploded during a religious procession in the town of Nativitas, Mexico, Friday March 15, 2013. A truck loaded with fireworks exploded during a religious procession in this rural village in central Mexico, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens more, authorities said. (AP Photo/J. Guadalupe Perez)A truck explodes during a religious procession in a village.

Lacrosse team bus crashes; pregnant coach dies

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 03:12 PM PDT

Emergency and rescue crews respond to the scene of a tour bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013 near Carlisle, Pa. Authorities say the tour bus crashed on the freeway at mile marker 227 in central Pennsylvania, and serious injuries have been reported. Lacrosse players from Seton Hill University and three coaches were among the 23 people aboard when the bus crashed at about 9 a.m., turnpike spokeswoman Renee Colborn said. It's not clear what caused the crash, but state police were investigating, said Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department. (AP Photo/The Sentinel, Jason Malmont ) MANDATORYA road trip by a college women's lacrosse team came to a horrifying end Saturday when the team bus veered off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and crashed into a tree, killing a pregnant coach, her unborn child, and the driver, and injuring numerous others, authorities said.

Crews recover man's body from icy S. Dakota river

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 03:16 PM PDT

The family of Lyle Eagletail grieves after his body was recovered from the Big Sioux River below the falls at Falls Park in Sioux Falls, S.D. Saturday, March 16, 2013. Eagletail and 16-year-old Madison Wallace dove into the water on Thursday to rescue 6-year-old Garrett Wallace who did survive. Madison's body was recovered on Friday afternoon. (AP Photo/Argus Leader, Elisha Page)Crews recovered the body of a second person who drowned while trying to save a 6-year-old boy, authorities said.

Hundreds checked for rabies after transplant death

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 03:08 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2007, file photo, the emergency entrance at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago is seen. A Maryland man died from a transplanted, rabies-infected kidney from a donor who wasn't known to have the disease. Federal officials said Friday, March 15, 2013, the rare death prompted treatment of three others who got organs from the same donor, one in a transplant operation at Northwestern. The Chicago hospital confirmed the Illinois transplant was performed there and that its doctors are administering the rabies treatment to that recipient. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)Public health agencies in five states are assessing the rabies risk for hundreds of people who may have had close contact with an infected organ donor and four transplant recipients, one of whom died, officials said Saturday.

Palin calls Obama a liar in speech to conservative activists

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 03:08 PM PDT

Palin addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, MarylandSarah Palin urged her party to stand by conservative values, rousing the crowd at a conservative conference on Saturday.

Former Wash. Gov. Booth Gardner dies

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 04:52 PM PDT

FILE - This March 7, 2010 file photo shows Wash. Gov. Booth Gardner arriving at the 82nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Gardner died Friday, March 15, 2013, after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 76. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)Booth Gardner, a two-term Democratic governor who later in life spearheaded a campaign that made Washington the second state in the country to legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill, has died after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 76.

In Twitter era, new pope not a social media maven

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 03:04 PM PDT

Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with the media at the Pope VI hall, at the Vatican, Saturday, March 16, 2013. Pope Francis offered intimate insights Saturday into the moments after his papal election, telling an audience with the press that he was immediately inspired to take the name of St. Francis of Assisi because of his work for peace and the poor, and was embraced by another cardinal amid applause inside the conclave. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)Pope Francis has 1.2 billion followers in the Roman Catholic Church, but he's not following a single one of them on Facebook or Twitter.

Swiss tourist gang-raped in central India

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 02:16 PM PDT

A Swiss woman, center, who, according to police, was gang-raped by a group of eight men while touring by bicycle with her husband, is escorted by policewomen for a medical examination at a hospital in Gwalior, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Saturday, March 16, 2013. Thirteen men were detained and questioned in connection with the attack, which occurred Friday night as the couple camped out in a forest after bicycling from the temple town of Orchha, local police officer R.K. Gurjar said. The men beat the couple and gang-raped the woman, he said. They also stole the couple's mobile phone, a laptop computer and 10,000 rupees ($185), Gurjar said. (AP Photo)A woman on a cycling trip in central India with her husband has been attacked by eight men, police said Saturday, three months after the fatal gang-rape of a woman aboard a bus outraged Indians.

High-ranking Syrian general defects from army

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 01:14 PM PDT

A Syrian boy waves the Syrian revolutionary flag during a celebration to commemorate the second anniversary of the Syrian revolution, in Amman, Jordan, Friday, March, 15, 2013. Around a thousand Syrians gathered in front of the Syrian embassy, and chanted slogans against Assad, and the Baath regime that has ruled Syria for the last 40 years. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)The general defected on Saturday with the help of rebels and said morale is low among those still fighting for President Bashar Assad as the civil war enters its third year.

Antarctica concerns grow as tourism numbers rise

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 02:18 PM PDT

In this Dec. 1, 2009 photo provided by Aurora Expeditions, an inflatable boat carries tourists past an iceberg along the Antarctic Peninsula. In a remote, frozen, almost pristine land where the only human residents are involved in research, tourism comes with risks, for both the continent and the tourists. (AP Photo/Aurora Expeditions, Andrew Halsall) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAcross most of Earth, a tourist attraction that sees 35,000 visitors a year can safely be labeled sleepy. But when it's Antarctica, every footstep matters.

Revelers worldwide start to mark St. Patrick's Day

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 01:28 PM PDT

John Shepard and Gena Damento of Rochester Minn., take a photo of themselves kissing after the Chicago River was dyed green ahead of the St. Patrick's Day parade in Chicago, Saturday, March, 16, 2013. With the holiday itself falling on a Sunday, many celebrations were scheduled instead for Saturday because of religious observances. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)Crowds cheered and bagpipes bellowed as New York City's annual St. Patrick's Day parade kicked off Saturday, and people with a fondness for anything Irish began a weekend of festivities from the Louisiana bayou to Dublin.

Airline bomber set to be released from prison

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 11:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this December 12, 1991, file photo Mohammed Rashed, center, convicted of the 1982 PanAm jetliner bombing, listens to his unidentified PLO interpreter, left, during his appeals court hearing in Athens, Greece. Rashed tucked a bomb beneath his jetliner seat cushion, set the timer and disembarked with his wife and child when the flight touched down in Tokyo. The device exploded as the jet continued on to Honolulu, killing a Japanese teenager in an attack that investigators linked to a terrorist organization known for making sophisticated bombs. It would be 20 years before Rashed, one-time apprentice to Abu Ibrahim, currently featured on the FBI list of most wanted terrorists, would admit guilt in an American courtroom. Now, credited for his cooperation against associates, Rashed is about to be freed from federal prison after more than two decades behind bars in Greece and the United States. (AP Photo/Aris Saris, File)Mohammed Rashed slipped a bomb beneath the seat cushion, set the timer and disembarked with his wife and child when the plane landed in Tokyo. The device exploded as Pan Am Flight 830 continued on to Honolulu.

Vet who saved many in Iraq couldn't escape own demons

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 12:01 PM PDT

In this Autumn 2006 photo provided by Brock McNabb, McNabb places a "combat patch" on Pete Linnerooth's uniform at their office in Baghdad, denoting that he had been in-country long enough to earn the badge of honor and is officially a combat veteran. Capt. Linnerooth was an Army psychologist who counseled soldiers during some of the fiercest fighting in Iraq. Hundreds upon hundreds sought his help. For nightmares and insomnia. For shock and grief. And for reaching that point where they just wanted to end it all. Linnerooth did such a good job his Army comrades dubbed him The Wizard. His "magic" was deceptively simple: an instant rapport with soldiers, an empathetic manner, a big heart. (AP Photo/Brock McNabb)He had a knack for soothing soldiers who'd just seen their buddies killed by bombs. He knew how to comfort medics sickened by the smell of blood and troops haunted by the screams of horribly burned Iraqi children.

Colleges say federal cuts could cause brain drain

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 11:19 AM PDT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering Nikolai Begg poses in an MIT workshop in Cambridge, Mass., Friday, March 15, 2013. Begg is concerned about whether government funding losses could force undergraduates who are contemplating higher degrees to enter the workforce for financial reasons, meaning a loss of American ingenuity in the end. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, faculty fret about the future of the school's Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

Obama heads to Middle East

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 08:19 AM PDT

FILE -- In this Monday, May 18, 2009 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, looks towards President Barack Obama as he speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama's vow to take his message straight to the public during his first presidential visit to Israel next week will be a tough sell with many Israelis who consider him naive, too soft on the nation's enemies and even hostile to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)His first priority will be resetting his oft-troubled relationship with now-weakened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Francis turns on charm in first meeting with press

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 06:31 AM PDT

Pope Francis gestures during a meeting with the media at the Pope VI hall, at the Vatican, Saturday, March 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)Pope Francis offered intimate insights into the moments after his election, and that he would like to see "a poor church and a church for the poor."

Portman fallout: How far is GOP from embracing gay rights?

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 05:30 AM PDT

GOP Sen. Portman Changes Stand on Gay MarriageAs the Republican Party looks in the mirror in the wake of losing the presidential election last year, its assessment includes what to do about gay marriage, an issue the party has traditionally been against.

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