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Bombing connected to election kill 18 in Pakistan

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 11:14pm

PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) — Three bombings in northwest Pakistan targeting individuals involved in this week's national elections killed 18 people, police said, pushing the death toll from attacks on candidates and party workers to over 100 since the beginning of April.


22 dead in gas tanker explosion near Mexico City

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 11:00pm

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A natural gas tanker truck lost control, hit a center divider and exploded on a highway lined by homes in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec early Tuesday, killing at least 22 people and injuring nearly three dozen, authorities said.


Disgraced South Carolina ex-governor Sanford wins House seat

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 10:52pm

By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Former Republican Governor Mark Sanford made a stunning political comeback on Tuesday, rebounding from a sex scandal to beat Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a personality-driven election for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives that put a national spotlight on South Carolina. Sanford regained the First Congressional District seat he held from 1995 to 2001 before serving two terms as governor, the second of which was marred when he tried to hide an affair by falsely saying that he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. ...


Police facing questions in 3 women's Ohio rescue

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 10:50pm

CLEVELAND (AP) — One neighbor says a naked woman was seen crawling on her hands and knees in the backyard of the house a few years ago. Another heard pounding on the home's doors and noticed plastic bags over the windows.


Assad's forces capture strategic town in southern Syria

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 10:46pm

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - The Syrian army captured a strategic southern town from rebel fighters on Wednesday after a ferocious two-month bombardment, in an advance likely to result in President Bashar al-Assad's forces regaining control of an international transit route, opposition sources said. The fall of Khirbet Ghazaleh, situated in the Hauran Plain on the highway to Jordan, came after a Jordanian-backed Syrian opposition military council failed to supply weapons to the town's defenders. ...


Streit's 2 goals lift Isles into 2-2 series tie

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 10:39pm

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Leads aren't safe in the wild first-round playoff matchup between the New York Islanders and Pittsburgh. Suddenly, neither are the top-seeded Penguins.


Factbox: Cleveland captive Amanda Berry's 911 call

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 10:38pm
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Three women were rescued from a Cleveland home after roughly a decade of captivity. One of them was able to call police after a neighbor heard her cries for help and broke through a door. Here is a transcript of her 911 call: Amanda Berry: Hello, police, help me! I'm Amanda Berry. 911: You need police, fire, ambulance? Berry: I need police. 911: Okay, and what's going on there? Berry: I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for ten years, and I, I'm here, I'm free now. 911: Okay, and what's your address? Berry: 2207 Seymour Avenue. ...

Freed Ohio women will need privacy after ordeal, survivors say

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 10:38pm
By Sharon Bernstein and James Nelson (Reuters) - The three young women imprisoned for around a decade at house in Ohio are going to need support and, most of all, privacy as they re-integrate into society, survivors of other long-term kidnapping ordeals said on Tuesday. Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, who disappeared in separate incidents between 2002 and 2004, were found alive on Monday at a two-storey home in the same blue-collar Cleveland neighborhood where they had gone missing. Three brothers have been arrested as suspects. ...

Gas tanker truck explodes outside Mexico City, kills 22

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 10:38pm

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A gas tanker truck exploded on a highway north of Mexico City on Tuesday, killing at least 22 people and injuring more than 30 as a fireball tore through cars and homes. Pablo Bedolla, mayor of the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec, said 22 people died in the blast that engulfed early morning traffic. Television footage showed burned-out vehicles and debris strewn all over the highway on the edge of the capital. Local media reported that at least 10 of those killed were children. ...


2 of 3 Rodin sculptures fetch $16M in NYC auction

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 10:18pm

NEW YORK (AP) — Two early casts from Auguste Rodin's masterpiece "The Gates of Hell" have sold for a total of more than $16 million at a New York City auction.


Despite scandal, Ex-SC Gov. Sanford back in office

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 9:46pm

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Four years after scandal derailed his political career, ex-Republican Gov. Mark Sanford once again holds a South Carolina political office, winning back his old congressional seat Tuesday after a race in which he battled his past and an opponent who outdid him in fundraising.


Jays' Happ hit in head by line drive, carted off

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 9:45pm

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Blue Jays pitcher J.A. Happ was hit in the head by a line drive and taken off the field on a stretcher during Toronto's game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night.


Jury concludes Jodi Arias deliberations for day

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 9:42pm

PHOENIX (AP) — The jury in Jodi Arias' murder trial concluded its second full day of deliberations on Tuesday without reaching a verdict.


20 dead in gas tanker explosion near Mexico City

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 9:21pm
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A natural gas tanker truck lost control, hit a center divider and exploded on a highway lined by homes in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec early Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and injuring nearly three dozen, authorities said.