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Snowstorm takes aim at Plains, Midwest

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 04:35 PM PDT

JC Hobbs directs his wife Sarah as they help to pull a van and U-Haul up a hill outside Calhan, Colo. as a storm continued to bring bad weather to the Colorado Springs area Saturday, March 23, 2013. Transportation officials said Interstate 70 was closed from Denver to Colby, Kan., on Saturday. The National Weather Service said the Denver area could see up to 7 inches of snow Saturday. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Michael Ciaglo) MAGS OUTAn early spring snowstorm forced the cancellation of more than 100 flights at Denver International Airport and closed several roads Saturday as it moved eastward, dumping more than a foot of snow in some places.


Wash. weighs abortion insurance mandate

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 03:59 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2013 file photo, Sen. Tim Sheldon, D-Potlatch, sits at his desk on the Senate floor at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Sheldon and fellow Democrat Rodney Tom currently side with Republicans in the Senate leading to questions as to whether the Reproductive Parity Act, as it is known to supporters, has enough votes to pass. The measure would require most insurers in Washington state to cover abortions. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)The legislation would mandate insurance companies to cover the procedure.


Slain ex-con is named a suspect in Colo. death

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 05:06 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo released by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows paroled inmate Evan Spencer Ebel. Ebel, 28, the former Colorado inmate and white supremacist at the center of a two-state mystery is dead after a high-speed chase and shootout with Texas deputies March 21, 2013. Now investigators are trying to piece together whether he killed the chief of Colorado prisons and a pizza delivery man. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Corrections, File)Investigators said for the first time that Evan Spencer Ebel is a suspect in the death of a prisons chief.


Kerry meets Palestinian, Israeli leaders after Obama

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 03:55 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Kerry talks with Jordan's King Abdullah at the airport in AmmanU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Saturday after earlier talking to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan in a bid to revive stalled peace talks. Kerry's back-to-back meetings followed up on U.S. President Barack Obama's visits to Israel and the Palestinian Territories this week in which he called for fresh diplomatic efforts but offered no new peace proposals of his own. ...


Putin foe dies under 'unexplained' circumstances

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 03:49 PM PDT

File photo of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky arriving at a division of the High Court in central LondonBoris Berezovsky was a Russian oligarch who helped broker Vladimir Putin's rise, only to become his sworn enemy.


Miner killed in accident just missed death in 2007

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 04:10 PM PDT

Julie and Derk Jones talk about their son Elam Jones in Huntington, Utah, Saturday March 23, 2013. Elam Jones, 28, was killed Friday when a tunnel roof collapsed at the Rhino Mine about 10 miles west of his hometown of Huntington. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Chris Detrick) DESERET NEWS OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; MAGS OUTElam Jones came close to death in a central Utah mine accident once before.


Ga. woman says she's certain suspect shot her baby

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 03:01 PM PDT

This Friday, March 22, 2013 photo provided by the Glynn County Detention Center shows De'Marquise Elkins, 17, one of two teenagers arrested Friday and accused of fatally shooting a 13-month-old baby in the face and wounding his mother during their morning stroll in Brunswick, Ga. Elkins is charged as an adult with first-degree murder, along with a 14-year-old who was not identified because he is a juvenile, Police Chief Tobe Green said. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Glynn County Detention Center)But an aunt of the teen said he was eating breakfast with her when the slaying took place.


Joe Weider, fitness mentor to Schwarzenegger, dies

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 04:10 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 25, 2003 file photo shows then California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, raising the arm of Joe Weider, the creator of Mr. Olympia Bodybuilding competition, during the 39th annual Mr. Olympia event in Las Vegas. Weider, the legendary bodybuilding impresario Arnold Schwarzenegger has often cited as his key mentor, died Friday, March 22, 2013, at age 93.(AP Photo/Eric Jamison, File)Joe Weider, a legendary figure in bodybuilding, died Saturday at age 93.


NASA: Boulder-size asteroid caused East Coast meteor

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 12:49 PM PDT

Boulder-Size Asteroid Caused Friday's East Coast Meteor, NASA SaysThe dramatic fireball that lit up skies over the U.S. East Coast Friday evening (March 22) was caused by an asteroid just 3 feet (0.9 meters) or so wide, scientists say.


Greece: 2 hurt, 11 escape in prison shooting

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 04:51 PM PDT

Kostas Tassios, a coffee shop owner, points at a bullet hole in the window his coffee shop near the city of Trikala, central Greece, on Saturday, March 23, 2013. At least 11 inmates escaped from a Greek prison after gunmen brazenly attacked the site with grenades and automatic weapons, kicking off a nightlong standoff between police and prisoners. Two guards were injured, one of them seriously. The attack was the latest dramatic incident at Greek prisons, which are suffering from serious overcrowding and staff shortages as the country struggles through financial crisis and a recession that started in late 2008.(AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)At least 11 inmates escaped from a Greek prison Friday night after gunmen brazenly attacked the site with grenades and automatic weapons, kicking off a nightlong standoff between police and prisoners. Two guards were injured, one of them seriously.


Rebels enter Central African Republic capital

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 04:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2013 file photo, government security forces in a pickup truck drive past a demonstration calling for peace as negotiators prepare for talks with rebels from the north, in downtown Bangui, Central African Republic Saturday. On Friday, March 22, rebels took the town of Damara, beginning a new march to take the capital, Bangui, said a rebel spokesman. Panic spread throughout the capital, with the neighborhoods closest to the northern gate of the city emptying out, as frightened residents locked up their shops, packed their bags and yanked their children out of school. Banks and government offices closed early.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)Witnesses say rebels have entered the northern side of the Central African Republic capital days after they threatened to again take up arms against the government.


Jailed 23 years, NY man is freed, has heart attack

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 10:53 AM PDT

David Ranta kisses a family member after Judge Miriam Cyrulnik freed him, in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, March 21, 2013. Ranta, 58, who spent more than two decades behind bars was freed by a New York City judge on Thursday after a reinvestigation of his case cast serious doubt on evidence used to convict him in the Feb. 8, 1990 shooting of Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Pool)A New York City man whose murder conviction was overturned after 23 years in prison has suffered a heart attack on his second day of freedom.


Senate Democratic budget extends standoff with GOP

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 11:11 AM PDT

The setting sun is reflected in the windows of the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill, Friday, March 22, 2013 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)An exhausted Senate gave pre-dawn approval Saturday to a Democratic $3.7 trillion budget for next year that embraces nearly $1 trillion in tax increases over the coming decade but shelters domestic programs targeted for cuts by House Republicans.


Slumbering sun should wake up this year

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 06:43 AM PDT

Slumbering Sun Should Wake Up This YearThe sun should roar back to life sometime in 2013, producing its second activity peak in the last two years, scientists say.


Pope Francis tells Benedict: 'We're brothers'

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 10:35 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis meets Pope emeritus Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo Saturday, March 23, 2013. Pope Francis has traveled to Castel Gandolfo to have lunch with his predecessor Benedict XVI in a historic and potentially problematic melding of the papacies that has never before confronted the Catholic Church. The Vatican said the two popes embraced on the helipad. In the chapel where they prayed together, Benedict offered Francis the traditional kneeler used by the pope. Francis refused to take it alone, saying "We're brothers," and the two prayed together on the same one. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, HO)Pope Francis traveled Saturday south of Rome to have lunch with his "brother" and predecessor Benedict XVI, a historic and potentially problematic melding of the papacies that has never before confronted the Catholic Church.


Indian actors face trial over killing of rare deer

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 03:24 AM PDT

FILE – In this July 17, 2007 file photo, Bollywood superstar Salman Khan poses during the soundtrack release of the film "Marigold" in Mumbai, India. An Indian court will try five Bollywood actors, including Khan, for allegedly killing two rare deer in a western India wildlife preserve 14 years ago. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh, File)An Indian court will try five Bollywood actors, including action hero Salman Khan, for allegedly killing two rare deer in a western India wildlife preserve 14 years ago.


What happens if Cyprus collapses?

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 01:34 AM PDT

Protesters hold an EU flag during a protest outside the Cypriot parliament, Friday, March 22, 2013. Cypriot authorities were putting the final touches Friday to a plan they hope will convince international lenders to provide the money the country urgently needs to avoid bankruptcy within days. The European Union, the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the country's leaders are trying to find a deal to secure a 10 billion euro ($13 billion) loan for Cyprus and stave off a failure of its banking system.


Syria rebels seize southern base, border area

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 11:41 AM PDT

Free Syrian Army fighters carry their weapons as they sit in attention during the declaration of the formation of Al-Liwaa brigade in BinnishRebels seized an air defense base near Syria's strategic southern international highway on Saturday, activists said, a gain that could bolster opposition fighters trying to secure supply routes to Damascus.


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