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Travis sues to block DWI patrol car video release

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:17am

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Country music star Randy Travis has filed a lawsuit to prevent the release of patrol car video of his 2012 drunken-driving arrest in North Texas.


Former OJ lawyer denies OK'ing hotel room plan

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:05am

LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson's former lawyer said Friday he was surprised when the former football hero told him over dinner at a Las Vegas hotel that he and several other men were planning a "sting" to take back items he believed had been stolen from him in Los Angeles.


Bloomberg appoints ex-IBM CEO as privacy advisor

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:05am
NEW YORK (AP) — Bloomberg LP, the financial news and information service, says it's appointing Samuel Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM, as an independent advisor on its privacy and data standards.

Bombs at mosques in northwest Pakistan kill 15

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:04am

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Bombs that exploded outside two mosques in a village in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 15 people Friday, underlining the challenge of militant violence facing a new government set to take power under the leadership of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.


$1 million in jewelry stolen near Cannes film fest

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:02am

PARIS (AP) — Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewelry, in a brazen late-night burglary just hours after the screening of a film about break-ins at the homes of Hollywood celebrities, French officials said Friday.


Zimbabwe PM confident he'll oust Mugabe in vote

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:02am
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday he is poised to sweep to victory in upcoming presidential elections and return the nation to the world community after years of isolation.

'The Audience' to be shown in NJ nursing home

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:01am

NEW YORK (AP) — A special audience will get to see Helen Mirren onstage in London next month in the play "The Audience" — some retired show business veterans in a New Jersey nursing home.


Funeral home has bicycle hearse for 1 last ride

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:00am
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon funeral home in Eugene offers natural burials where the ride to the person's final resting place is on the back of a three-wheeled bicycle.

French gay marriage law ruled constitutional

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:58am
PARIS (AP) — France's constitutional council has rejected a challenge by conservative lawmakers to the country's new gay marriage law, saying the law was constitutional.

Rising consumer demands aids organic industry sway

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:53am

WASHINGTON (AP) — The organic food industry is gaining influence on Capitol Hill, prompted by its entry into traditional farm states and by increasing consumer demand.


May consumer sentiment highest in nearly six years

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:51am

By Leah Schnurr NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans felt better about their economic and financial prospects in early May as consumer sentiment rose to the highest level in nearly six years, an encouraging sign after other recent data had suggested broader U.S. growth is cooling. A gauge of future economic activity released on Friday also suggested the expected slowdown will be temporary, with the index rising in April to a near five-year high. Economists expect growth will likely slow in the second quarter from the 2. ...


Former Argentine dictator Videla dies in prison at age 87

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:49am

By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Jorge Rafael Videla, an austere former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a "dirty war" dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday at age 87. Videla was the first president to head the military junta that "disappeared" thousands of suspected leftists from 1976 to 1983, and he spent his final years behind bars for human rights crimes including the systematic theft of babies born to political prisoners in secret torture centers. ...


Mosque, funeral bombings kill 47 in Iraq

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:48am

BAGHDAD (AP) — Twin explosions ripped through a crowd of Sunni worshippers outside Baghdad on Friday, an attack which, combined with a second deadly bombing at a Sunni funeral to the south of the capital, deepened fears Iraq may be headed toward a new round of sectarian conflict.


23 dead in initiation rites in South Africa

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:48am

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Twenty-three youths have died in the past nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests, South African police said Friday.


A look at 'enforced disappearances' worldwide

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:45am
The U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is pressing governments to provide information about open cases. Over the past two decades, it received nearly 54,000 cases, of which nearly 43,000 in 84 states remain unsolved. The number of cases is believed to be only a fraction of those who disappeared after being taken by security forces.

Official: 10 killed in explosion in Turkey

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:44am
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Officials say a container of fuel being smuggled into Turkey from Syria has exploded, killing 10 people.

Rights groups: Syria holds thousands incommunicado

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:44am

BEIRUT (AP) — About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital of Damascus. They grabbed a 24-year-old university student and drove off.


Gauge of US economy's future health up in April

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:39am

WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of the U.S. economy's future health rose solidly in April, buoyed by a sharp rise in applications to build homes and a better job market.


Tim McGraw recasts ACM's TV special, airing Sunday

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:33am

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — When the producers of the Academy of Country Music's annual television special approached Tim McGraw about the 2013 edition, the country music star immediately flashed on the program's format.


Zimbabwe PM: We are 'new broom' set to win polls

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:09am
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's prime minister says he is poised to win the presidency in upcoming elections and return the nation to the world community after years of isolation.