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Oklahoma prepares for rare double execution

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 02:30 PM PDT

Execution Drug Oklahoma LawsuitPair that challenged secrecy surrounding drugs to receive new lethal injection formula.


Colorado Symphony to play 'cannabis-friendly' concerts

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 03:55 PM PDT

With the Colorado state capitol building visible in the background, partygoers dance and smoke pot on the first of two days at the annual 4/20 marijuana festival in Denver, Saturday April 19, 2014. The annual event is the first 420 marijuana celebration since retail marijuana stores began selling in January 2014. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Symphony Orchestra said Tuesday it will play a series of "cannabis-friendly" fundraising concerts sponsored by the state's burgeoning pot industry.


More than 100 attendees get sick at Baltimore food safety summit

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 02:09 PM PDT

food poisoning medical check list(Reuters) - A U.S. food safety summit in Maryland earlier this month has become a cautionary tale after more than 100 attendees came down with suspected food poisoning. Most of those affected complained of diarrhea, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said in a statement. The April 8-10 meeting at the Baltimore Convention Center included representatives from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and food companies such as McDonald's Corp, Tyson Foods Inc and ConAgra Foods Inc. "We are working on evaluating possible exposures and doing testing at the Maryland state public health laboratory to attempt to identify an agent," the health department said in the statement. The convention center and its food service provider, Centerplate, were inspected by city health officials.


Iran's president talks back to internal critics

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 01:51 PM PDT

A handout picture released by the Iranian Presidency shows the Islamic Republic's President Hassan Rouhani on March 20, 2014, shows him addressing the nation on the occasion of Noruz, the Iranian New Year, in TehranRouhani defends nuclear talks with West, says sanctions must end to fix buckling economy.


NBA bans Clippers owner for life

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Basketball commissioner issues ban, $2.5 million fine in wake of racist comments.


Pounded by tornado, Alabama church shows its resilience

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 10:53 AM PDT

Storm Damage in Central AlabamaA church in Kimberly, Ala., took a direct hit from a tornado Monday, and more storms are predicted Tuesday.


White supremacist gets probation for terrorizing N.D. town

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 01:02 PM PDT

Craig Cobb listens during court proceedings in district court Tuesday, April 29, 2014, in Bismarck, N.D., where he was sentenced to four years probation but no additional jail time for terrorizing residents of the small community of Leith, where he tried unsuccessfully to establish an all-white enclave and has left behind a legacy of fear. Cobb, 62, has been jailed since mid-November when he was arrested on seven felony terrorizing counts for scaring residents while patrolling Leith with a gun. He was due to be a free man later Tuesday after going through the jail release process _ a reality that scares officials in Leith. (AP Photo/The Bismarck Tribune, Tom Stromme)BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge sentenced a white supremacist Tuesday to four years of probation but no additional jail time for terrorizing residents of the small community of Leith, where he tried unsuccessfully to establish an all-white enclave and has left behind a legacy of fear.


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Doctor: 3 victims critical in FedEx shootings

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 09:08 AM PDT

Photos of the day - April 29, 2014An armed package handler opened fire Tuesday at a Ga. FedEx hub, injuring 6, police said.


Storms tear through South, killing dozens

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 09:18 AM PDT

Deadly tornadoes strike central, southern U.S.A chain of deadly tornadoes stretching from Okla. to Ala. leaves a trail of destruction.


Protesters seize new building in eastern Ukraine

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 02:21 PM PDT

Pro-Russian activists storm an administration building in the center of Luhansk, Ukraine, one of the largest cities in Ukraine's troubled east, Tuesday, April 29, 2014, as demonstrators demand greater autonomy for Ukraine's regions. The action on Tuesday further raises tensions in the east, where insurgents have seized control of police stations and other government buildings in at least 10 cities and towns.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)Protesters demanding more power for Ukraine's regions stormed the government building in Luhansk with baseball bats Tuesday, seizing control of a key site in one of the largest cities in Ukraine's troubled east.


Watch live: Clippers owner suspended from league for life

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Attacks hit 2 major Syrian cities, kill 54 people

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 09:19 AM PDT

In this photo which AP obtained from the Syrian official news agency SANA, and has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, damages are seen after a series of mortar shells hit Damascus, killing more than a dozen people and wounding scores in Syria, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. The attacks in the Syrian capital came a day after President Bashar Assad announced his candidacy for the June 3 presidential election. (AP Photo/SANA)Two car bombs exploded in a pro-government neighborhood in the central Syrian city of Homs Tuesday, killing at least 40 people just hours after one of the deadliest mortar strikes in the heart of the capital, Damascus, killed 14, officials and state media said.


NBA bans Clippers owner for life

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 04:11 PM PDT

Los Angeles Clippers NBA basketball team owner Donald Sterling attends the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly HillsBasketball commissioner issues ban, $2.5 million fine in wake of racist comments.


Tornado Aftermath: Survivors tell their stories

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 03:16 PM PDT

Tanisha Lockett searches through the remains of her aunt's child care business in Louisville, Miss., Tuesday, April 29, 2014. The seven-year-old business was leveled among with a auto repair business next door and a private residence. Numerous businesses, residences and the community hospital were destroyed or heavily damaged after a tornado hit the east Mississippi community Monday. Louisville is the county seat and home to about 6,600 people. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)A powerful storm system was menacing a large swath of the South early Tuesday, killing more than two dozen people from Arkansas to Alabama over more than two days of destruction. Here are the some stories from people in Mississippi and Alabama that made it through the frightening chaos.


Italy court reveals new details in Amanda Knox case

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 07:36 AM PDT

Knox reacts while being interviewed on the set of ABC's "Good Morning America" in New YorkAn Italian court that convicted Amanda Knox in her roommate's 2007 murder says the wounds indicate multiple aggressors, and that the two exchange students fought over money the night of the murder.


Kerry: U.S. taped Moscow plotting Ukraine chaos

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 02:45 AM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry waves as he boards a plane from Paris on March 31, 2014 for a trip to the Middle East to work on talks about the Middle East peace processThe secretary of state claimed in a private meeting that the U.S. intelligence community has recordings of pro-Russian forces being managed by government handlers in Moscow.


Death toll increases as tornado cleanup begins in the South

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 08:39 AM PDT

Wade Mills searches through the remains of his automotive repair business in Louisville, Miss., Tuesday, April 29, 2014. The six-year-old business was leveled among with a daycare center next door. Numerous businesses, residences and the community hospital were destroyed or heavily damaged after a tornado hit the east Mississippi community Monday. Louisville is the county seat and home to about 6,600 people. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)More bad weather is expected today, the third day harsh spring weather.


NAACP wants to meet with NBA boss over Sterling flap

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 07:04 AM PDT

NBA Commissioner Adam SilverWASHINGTON (AP) — The NAACP wants a meeting with NBA commissioner Adam Silver to discuss Clippers owner Donald Sterling and the racist comments he allegedly made in a recorded conversation.


Attacks hit Syria's 2 major cities, kill 50 people

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 06:50 AM PDT

FILE - This Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 file photo shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, seen, during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unseen, at the presidency in Tehran, Iran. Syrian parliament speaker says Assad has declared his candidacy for the June 3 presidential elections. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)A car bomb went off in the central Syrian city of Homs on Tuesday, killing 36 people just hours after a mortar attack on the capital, Damascus, killed 14, government officials and state media said.


Crews rescue father, 2 kids in S.C. national park

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 02:52 PM PDT

Search for a father and his two children lost in Congaree National ParkSearch crews have located a father and his two children who had been missing for more than two days in the vast woods and swamps of the Congaree National Park southeast of Columbia, officials said Tuesday.


Six wounded in attack at Ga. FedEx facility

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 04:42 PM PDT

FedEx Workplace Shooting Results in Multiple InjuriesPolice storm the center and find the suspected gunman dead.


Father and son tell of a 'very different' twister

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 07:30 PM PDT

How one Arkansas family survived deadly tornadoes, but lost everythingHow one Arkansas family survived deadly tornadoes, but lost everything.


As fallout mounts, NBA to discuss Sterling probe

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 12:43 AM PDT

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and V. StivianoFrom Michael Jordan to LeBron James, from Magic Johnson to Kobe Bryant, from President Obama to prominent corporate partners of the NBA, the condemnation of racist comments purportedly made by Donald Sterling has come from all circles and has shown that the issue extends far beyond the Los Angeles Clippers.


Obama headed home after 4-country Asia tour

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 04:57 AM PDT

President Barack Obama ended a four-country swing through Asia and headed for home Tuesday, still confronting the challenge of how to deal with Russia's threatening moves toward Ukraine. The issue overshadowed an Obama tour that was meant to reassure anxious allies in the orbit of a rising China that the U.S. will always be there to defend them.

Sterling banned for life by the NBA

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 04:57 PM PDT

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver addresses the media during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Silver announced that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned for life by the league in response to racist comments the league says he made in a recorded conversation. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)NEW YORK (AP) — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver delivered the swiftest, strongest penalty he could, then called on NBA owners to force Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to sell the team for making racist comments that hurt the league.


At least 35 dead as South braces for more twisters

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 03:21 PM PDT

Destroyed automobiles and remnants of homes cover the ground in a south Louisville, Miss., neighborhood, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. A dangerous storm system that spawned a chain of deadly tornadoes over two days flattened homes and businesses, and killed dozens from the Midwest to the Deep South. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)LOUISVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Ruth Bennett died clutching the last child left at her day care center as a tornado wiped the building off its foundation. A firefighter who came upon the body gently pulled the toddler from her arms.


AP PHOTOS: Tornadoes rip across Midwest, South

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 03:26 PM PDT

Charles Milam takes a break while searching his destroyed home on Clayton Avenue in Tupelo, Miss., Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Milam, his wife and his granddaughter were at home at the time of the tornado, and all survived. A dangerous storm system that spawned a chain of deadly tornadoes over three days flattened homes and businesses, forced frightened residents in more than half a dozen states to take cover and left tens of thousands in the dark Tuesday morning.(AP Photo/Thomas Graning)As crews in Mississippi and Alabama turned from search-and-rescue efforts to cleanup, the South braced for another round of potentially deadly weather on Tuesday night. The overall death toll from the storms that began Sunday in the Midwest has reached 35.


Shadowy commander is face of insurgency in Ukraine

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 11:48 AM PDT

This image taken from Associated Press video shows Igor Strelkov, military commander of pro-Russian militias in Slovyansk talking to journalists in Slovyansk, Ukraine, Sunday, April 27, 2014. Strelkov has been identified as a Russian security services operative by Ukraine's government. In what appeared to be a closely vetted interview to Russian media, Strelkov did not directly deny the accusation, saying the uprising in Ukraine was being carried out by opponents of the "Kiev junta" — language similar in tone to that adopted by the Kremlin leadership. (AP Photo/Associated Press Video)SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — When shadowy commander Igor Strelkov appeared before the cameras recently in green combat fatigues and a clipped mustache, he did more than reveal the face of the insurgency rocking eastern Ukraine. He strengthened the case that Russia is behind the turmoil.


Employee opens fire at FedEx sorting center

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 03:53 PM PDT

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — A FedEx employee wearing ammunition draped across his chest "like Rambo" opened fire Tuesday at a package-sorting center outside Atlanta, wounding six people before committing suicide, police and witnesses said.

Justices wary of unlimited cellphone searches

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 12:50 PM PDT

A Supreme Court visitor takes pictures with her cell phone outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, April 29, 2014, during a hearing. The Supreme Court is considering whether police may search cellphones found on people they arrest without first getting a warrant. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed wary Tuesday of allowing police unbridled freedom to search through cellphones of people they arrest, taking on a new issue of privacy in the face of rapidly changing technology.


Attacks in 2 Syrian cities kill at least 54

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 01:24 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian people gather at the site of one of two car bombs that exploded in the pro-government district of Zahra in the central Syrian city of Homs, Syria, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Dozens of people were killed and wounded in the attacks just hours after one of the deadliest mortar strikes in the heart of the capital, Damascus, killed 14, officials and state media said. (AP Photo/SANA)DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A massive double car bombing and a mortar strike targeted pro-government neighborhoods Tuesday in two of Syria's largest cities, killing at least 54 people a day after President Bashar Assad declared his candidacy for re-election.


Italy court: Knox struck mortal blow in killing

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 02:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 file photo, Amanda Knox talks to reporters, in Seattle. A court in Florence that convicted Amanda Knox in her British roommate's 2007 murder says the wounds indicate multiple aggressors, and that the two exchange students fought over money the night of the murder. The appellate court on Tuesday, April 29, 2014, issued a 337-page explanation for its January guilty verdicts against Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. Knox, 26, was sentenced to 28 ½ years while Sollecito, 30, received 25 years. Knox has been in the United States since 2011, when an earlier appellate trial that overturned her lower court conviction. Sollecito remains in Italy. The release of the court's reasoning opens the verdict to an appeal back to the supreme Court of Cassation. If the high court confirms the convictions, a long extradition fight for Knox is expected. Kercher, 21, was found dead in a pool of blood in the apartment she and Knox shared in the town of Perugia. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)MILAN (AP) — The Italian appeals court that reinstated the conviction against Amanda Knox in her British roommate's 2007 murder said in a lengthy reasoning made public Tuesday that Knox herself delivered the fatal blow out of a desire to "overpower and humiliate" the victim.


Chamber launches ads for GOP in 5 Senate races

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 12:41 PM PDT

In this April 23, 2014, photo, Republican senatorial candidate Thom Tillis responds during a televised debate at WRAL television studios in Raleigh, N.C. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is launching ads this week in North Carolina and Georgia in a crunch-time effort to help establishment-backed Republicans in crowded Senate primaries and pumping money into commercials praising GOP hopefuls in Michigan, Montana and Alaska. The North Carolina primary is May 6, Georgia two weeks later. The Chamber will begin airing ads Wednesday for Tillis and Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, Pool)WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is pumping money into ads for establishment Republican favorites in North Carolina, Georgia and Alaska, while pointedly calling them conservatives and highlighting their opposition to Washington bureaucrats.


SKorean president apologizes for ferry response

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 11:23 PM PDT

South Korean President Park Geun-hye pays tribute to the victims of the sunken ferry Sewol at a group memorial altar in Ansan, south of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Yonhap) KOREA OUTJINDO, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's president apologized Tuesday for the government's inept initial response to a deadly ferry sinking as divers fought strong currents in their search for nearly 100 passengers still missing nearly two weeks after the accident.


Kerry backs off Israel 'apartheid' comment

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 09:15 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday he had chosen the wrong word in describing Israel's potential future after coming under withering criticism for saying the Jewish state could become an "apartheid state" if it doesn't reach a peace deal with the Palestinians.

North Korea says it will conduct live-fire drills

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 09:04 PM PDT

A passenger gets a refund of his ticket for Yeonpyeong island in the western sea at Incheon port passenger terminal in Incheon, west of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. North Korea notified rival South Korea on Tuesday that it planned a live-fire drill near the countries' disputed western sea boundary, a possible indication of rising frustration in Pyongyang as it unsuccessfully pushes for outside aid. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Yun Tae-hyun) KOREA OUTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea notified rival South Korea on Tuesday that it planned a live-fire drill near the countries' disputed western sea boundary, a possible indication of rising frustration in Pyongyang as it unsuccessfully pushes for outside aid.


In your car when a tornado strikes? Here's what to do

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 09:02 AM PDT

Friends and family sift through debris at the home of Daniel Wassom after is was destroyed by a tornado, Monday, April 28, 2014, in Vilonia, Ark. Wassom died in the tornado trying to shield a family member. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Sunday's deadly tornadoes that struck throughout the central and southern United States left at least 16 dead and many more injured or dealing with devastating property damage.


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