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Bus passenger describes terror before Calif crash

Bus passenger describes terror before Calif crash

Bus passenger describes terror before Calif crash

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:52 PM PST

Investigators examine the scene of a tour bus accident Monday Feb. 4, 2013 in the mountains of Southern California near San Bernardino. The accident killed at least 8 people. ( AP Photo/Nick Ut)YUCAIPA, Calif. (AP) — A runaway bus careened down a mountain road without brakes and the driver called out to passengers to phone 911 before a violent crash with two other vehicles that killed eight people and injured dozens of others, a surviving passenger said Monday.

Police: Announcement coming on Ala. hostage

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:51 PM PST

Members of the community gather to pray for a 5-year-old taken hostage, in Midland City, Ala., Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. Authorities say Jim Lee Dykes, 65 — a decorated Vietnam-era veteran known as Jimmy to neighbors — gunned down a school bus driver and then abducted a 5-year-old boy from the bus, taking him to an underground bunker on his rural property. The driver, 66-year-old Charles Albert Poland Jr., who was shot trying to protect children on his bus, was buried Sunday. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say they will be making a major announcement in the case of a 5-year-old who is being held hostage in an underground bunker in Alabama.

Monkey business? US unsure of Iran's space claims

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:49 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States expressed doubt on Monday about Iran's claim that it safely returned a monkey from space, saying it is questionable that the monkey survived — or if the flight happened at all.

French tanker hijacked off Ivory Coast; 17 held

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:46 PM PST

This undated photo provided Monday, Jan. 4, 2013 by Sea Tanker Shipping shows the French-owned oil tanker Gascogne. The tanker, missing off Ivory Coast with 17 sailors on board, likely has been hijacked, an official with an international piracy watchdog said Monday Feb 4 2013, in what may be the latest attack by criminal gangs targeting the ships to steal their valuable cargo. Details remained scarce about the fate of the ship, flagged in Luxembourg. (AP Photo/Sea Tanker Shipping)ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Pirates hijacked a French-owned fuel tanker off Ivory Coast, abducting 17 sailors in the latest attack by criminal gangs targeting the ships to steal their valuable cargo, officials said Monday. Meanwhile, a sailor died in a similar attack Monday near Nigeria's largest city.

US stocks close down after Dow's rally to 14,000

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:45 PM PST

Stock traders work at the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)Stocks hit a big milestone, then promptly spun off the road.

Postal Service honors Rosa Parks with new stamp

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:45 PM PST

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Hundreds of people, including some of Michigan's political elite, gathered Monday to celebrate the late Rosa Parks on what would have been her 100th birthday by unveiling a postage stamp in her honor steps from the Alabama bus on which she stared down segregation nearly 60 years ago.

Investigators expose global soccer fixing scam

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:43 PM PST

The trophy for the UEFA Champions League is seen on the pitch prior to the Champions League soccer match between Bayern Munich and Olympique Marseille in MunichTHE HAGUE (Reuters) - Hundreds of soccer matches have been fixed in a global betting scam run from Singapore, police said on Monday, in a blow to the image of the world's most popular sport and a multi-billion dollar industry. About 680 suspicious matches including qualifying games for the World Cup and European Championships, and the Champions League for top European club sides, have been identified in an inquiry by European police forces, the European anti-crime agency Europol, and national prosecutors. "This is a sad day for European football," said Rob Wainwright, director of Europol. ...

Obama, aides seek momentum on immigration reform this week

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:43 PM PST

Obama waves to reporters as he walks across the South Lawn to board the Marine One helicopter for departure from the White House in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and his aides will seek to build momentum for U.S. immigration reform this week, laying down markers ahead of his State of the Union address amid an increasingly contentious debate in Washington over proposals for overhauling immigration laws. Obama plans to hold a series of White House meetings with corporate chief executives, labor leaders and progressives on Tuesday to lobby for their support, and has dispatched Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to the Southwest to tout the administration's border security efforts. ...

Ariz. woman charged in lover's slaying testifies

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:42 PM PST

Defendant Jodi Arias stands while the jury enters the courtroom in her murder trial in Judge Sherry Stephens' Superior Court, on Monday, Feb 4, 2013. Arias stands trial accused of murdering her lover, Travis Alexander, in his Mesa home in 2008. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Mark Henle)PHOENIX (AP) — The woman at the center of a sensational murder trial in Phoenix took the witness stand Monday, telling jurors how she endured an abusive childhood at the hands of her parents and contemplated suicide after the killing.

US businesses concerned over China market barriers

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:41 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. business group voiced concern Monday over market access barriers in China, which it said likely contributed to a drop in foreign investment there last year.

S&P expects US lawsuit over its mortgage ratings

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:39 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is expected to file civil charges against Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, alleging that it fraudulently gave high ratings to mortgage debt that later plunged in value and helped fuel the 2008 financial crisis.

Syrian opposition chief says offers Assad peaceful exit

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:38 PM PST

Sheikh Alkhatib and US Vice-President Biden meet at the 49th Conference on Security Policy in MunichBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian opposition leader Moaz Alkhatib urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government on Monday to start talks for its departure from power and save the country from greater ruin after almost two years of bloodshed. Seeking to step up pressure on Assad to respond to his offer of talks - which dismayed some in his own opposition coalition, Alkhatib said he would be ready to meet the president's deputy. ...

Super Bowl falls short of ratings record

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:37 PM PST

Baltimore Ravens defensive end Arthur Jones (97) kisses the Vince Lombardi Trophy after defeating the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 in the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)NEW YORK (AP) — With a partial power outage, an overly excited quarterback and a game that suddenly turned from snoozer to sizzler, CBS had its hands full at the Super Bowl. The game fell short of setting a viewership record, but it stands as the third most-watched program in U.S. television history.

Beating, torture fuel sense Egypt police unchanged

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:32 PM PST

Egyptian relatives of Mohammed el-Gindy, a 28-year-old activist, who died early Monday of wounds sustained during clashes last Friday near the presidential palace, display his picture as they shout anti-president Morsi slogans during his funeral procession in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. More than 60 people have died in recent protests across Egypt that began on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, the eve of the second anniversary of the start of the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Arabic reads "my name is Mohammed and I did not deserve to die this way." (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — The video outraged Egyptians, showing riot police strip and beat a middle-aged man and drag him across the pavement as they cracked down on protesters. The follow-up was even more startling: In his first comments afterward, the man insisted the police were just trying to help him.

Goodell: New Orleans 'terrific,' despite blackout

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:30 PM PST

Fans and members of the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers wait for power to return in the Superdome during an outage in the second half of the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The blackout at the Superdome will not stop the Super Bowl from returning to New Orleans.

Sites let you see Super Bowl ads you missed

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:29 PM PST

This undated screenshot provided by Tide shows the company's Super Bowl advertisement. (AP Photo/Tide)NEW YORK (AP) — If you missed any of the Super Bowl ads your friends and co-workers are talking about, Hulu, CBS and YouTube are among the websites that let you watch them.

APNewsBreak: Effort building to change US pot laws

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:28 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2012 file photo, Jake Dimmock, co-owner of the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary, works with flowering plants in a grow room in Seattle. Congressional lawmakers from both parties are working to change U.S. marijuana laws, including altering tax codes to let marijuana dispensaries deduct business expenses on federal taxes, and changing banking laws to make it easier for marijuana-related businesses to get bank accounts. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)SEATTLE (AP) — An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax.

FBI investigating NYC woman's death in Istanbul

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:22 PM PST

Betzaida Jimenez, mother of 33-year-old Sarai Sierra who was found dead on Saturday in Turkey, pauses before a news conference at a friend's home in Staten Island, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, in New York. Sierra went missing while vacationing alone in Istanbul on Jan. 21, the day she was due to board her flight back home. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI is playing a significant role in the investigation into the death of a New York City woman in Istanbul while on a solo vacation, a U.S. congressman said Monday.

Records show runaway Calif bus had past violations

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:18 PM PST

This is a blank background for the AP mobile news app. Please position the vertical photo flush with the left side.YUCAIPA, Calif. (AP) — Government records show a runaway tour bus involved in a crash in Southern California that killed at least eight people recorded 22 safety violations in inspections over a year — including problems with brakes, the windshield and tires.

Saudi cleric: Even young girls should be covered

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:18 PM PST

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A Saudi cleric says even girls who have not yet reached puberty should be covered from head to toe, citing instances of child molestation in the ultraconservative kingdom and elsewhere.

Stock market has worst day this year; Dow off 129

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:17 PM PST

The stock market is closing out its worst day so far this year, bringing the Dow average back below 14,000.

GOP leader raises possibility of Hagel filibuster

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:15 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2013 file photo, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. speaks with reporters following a Republican strategy session, on Capitol Hill in Washington. McConnell leader is raising the possibility of a filibuster of President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is raising the possibility of a filibuster of President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary.

Argentina freezes prices to break inflation spiral

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:08 PM PST

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina announced a two-month price freeze on supermarket products Monday in an effort to stop spiraling inflation.

S&P expects gov't lawsuit over mortgage ratings

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:05 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Standard & Poor's says the government plans to file a civil lawsuit alleging wrongdoing by the agency when it gave high ratings to mortgage debt securities that later plunged in value and fueled the 2008 financial crisis.

Senate tries again to move anti-violence bill

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:03 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2012 file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate on Monday returned to the Violence Against Women Act, seeking to accomplish what Congress last year failed to do _ extend the federal government's chief means of protecting women from domestic abuse while broadening those protections to better include Native Americans, gays and lesbians. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats worked toward picking up Republican allies Monday as they launched a new attempt to broaden a law protecting women from domestic abuse by expanding its provisions to cover gays, lesbians and Native Americans.

Pakistan plans park where bin Laden was killed

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:02 PM PST

FILE - In this May 15, 2011 file photo, Ali Raza sits on the rooftop of his house as he views the city of Abbottabad, Pakistan. Pakistani officials say the government plans to build a recreation complex in the town. Syed Aqil Shah, sports and tourism minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said Monday, Feb. 4, 2013 that the project in Abbottabad will have a zoo, paragliding club and water sports facilities. It will also have cultural heritage park. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say the government plans to build a recreation complex in the town where al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. commandos in 2011.

Oscar producers aim to cut out the boring parts

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:01 PM PST

Jessica Chastain, nominated for best actress in a leading role for "Zero Dark Thirty," arrives at the 85th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The producers of the Academy Awards have good news for those watching at home: they're trying to cut out the boring parts.

Indiana moves back into No. 1 spot in AP poll

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:56 PM PST

Indiana's Victor Oladipo (4) drives toward the basket for a slam dunk during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, in Bloomington, Ind. Indiana defeated Michigan 81-73. (AP Photo/Doug McSchooler)Tom Crean's whirlwind week got even crazier Monday.

Dominican lawyer dismisses prostitution reports

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:53 PM PST

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A lawyer in the Dominican Republic is dismissing allegations that he and New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez attended parties with under-aged prostitutes.

Obama presses his gun proposals in Minnesota

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:47 PM PST

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks about his gun violence proposals, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at the Minneapolis Police Department's Special Operations Center in Minneapolis, where he outlined his plan before law enforcement personnel. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — With his gun proposals dividing Congress, President Barack Obama conceded Monday the challenges he faces in winning support for measures ranging from criminal checks on gun buyers to an assault weapons ban. But, he declared: "We don't have to agree on everything to agree it's time to do something."

In Israel raid, Syria options severely constrained

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:39 PM PST

Syrian man carries his sister who was wounded in a government airstrike hit the neighborhood of Ansari, in Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. The Britain-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which opposes the regime, said government troops bombarded a building in Aleppo's rebel-held neighborhood of Eastern Ansari that killed over 10 people, including at least five children. (AP Photo/Abdullah al-Yassin)BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's defense minister signaled Monday that his country won't hit back at Israel over an airstrike inside Syria, claiming the Israeli raid was actually in retaliation for his regime's offensive against rebels he called "tools" of the Jewish state.

Texan seeks accountability for wrongful conviction

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:37 PM PST

GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who was wrongfully imprisoned for nearly 25 years for his wife's murder told a judge Monday that neither he nor his legal team knew authorities were aware that his then 3-year-old son had witnessed the 1986 slaying and indicated it was a "monster" and not his father who committed the crime.

Israeli expert: Iran could have bomb in 4-6 months

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:34 PM PST

JERUSALEM (AP) — A former chief of Israeli military intelligence says Iran could develop a nuclear weapon within the next four to six months.

Greek court orders probe of alleged police beating

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:33 PM PST

This combo photo shows a handout by police, right, of 23-year-old robbery and terrorism suspect Andreas Dimitrios Bourzoukos in police custody that appears to have been digitally manipulated to remove signs of beating, and the same suspect with heavy bruising as he is being led to a prosecutor to be charged, both made on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013. An Athens prosecutor ordered an investigation Monday into whether police beat the four alleged bank robbers, three of whom are suspected of being members of the domestic militant anarchist group Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire. Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias said on private Mega television that he understood the photos had been altered because police wanted to issue pictures that might lead to further information from the public and they needed to be recognizable. (AP Photo/ Picture on the right, handout by Greek police, picture on the left, Eurokinissi)ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek prosecutor ordered an investigation Monday into allegations of police brutality in the arrest of four alleged bank robbers after authorities released digitally altered mug shots that covered up extensive bruising on three of the suspects.

Ireland: Testing shows 'beef' 75 percent horsemeat

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:31 PM PST

DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland's government says DNA testing has discovered that Polish meat offcuts imported into Ireland and labeled as beef actually contain up to 75 percent horsemeat.

Porn star Jeremy likely to be in hospital a while

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:29 PM PST

Adult film star Ron Jeremy attends a Cinema Society screening of "Ghost Town" at the IFC Center Monday, Sept. 15, 2008 in New York. Jeremy is recovering from surgery at a Los Angeles hospital after an aneurysm near his heart sent him to intensive care. Agent Mike Esterman says in an email to The Associated Press that he and others were waiting for Jeremy to awake Wednesday night Jan. 30, 2013 after a smooth procedure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Porn star Ron Jeremy's agent says the prolific actor will likely stay at a Los Angeles hospital a while to recover from an aneurysm near his heart.

Obama takes gun control campaign to Midwest

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:28 PM PST

A police officer's gun sits in its holster as Obama speaks about ways to reduce gun violence during a visit to the Minneapolis Police Department Special Operations Center in MinneapolisMINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday took his gun control campaign to Minneapolis, making a visible push for reform ahead of his State of the Union address in a state with an active hunting culture where efforts have helped curtail violence. Obama wants to move quickly to pass laws before memories fade of the December mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, that claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults. ...

NYC police defend undercover spying of Muslims

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:26 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2011 file photo, people walk below a New York Police Department security camera, upper left, which was placed next to a mosque on Fulton Street in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York. Civil rights lawyers are telling a judge that the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities violates federal guidelines established to stop the NYPD from conducting political surveillance. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The New York Police Department is defending its use of undercover officers to prevent terrorism attacks, saying it follows the Constitution regardless of what civil rights lawyers say about its surveillance of the Muslim community.

Egypt: Iran's Ahmadinejad to visit Cairo this week

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:25 PM PST

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's foreign minister says Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Cairo this week, marking the first visit to Egypt by an Iranian leader in decades.

Iraq War vet accused in shooting on suicide watch

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:23 PM PST

FILE - In this April 6, 2012 file photo, Chris Kyle, a former Navy SEAL and author of the book FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The Iraq War veteran charged with killing a former Navy SEAL sniper and his friend on a Texas shooting range had to be shocked with a stun gun and restrained in his jail cell overnight after becoming aggressive, a sheriff said Monday.
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