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NM stabbing suspect thought choir leader was Mason

NM stabbing suspect thought choir leader was Mason

NM stabbing suspect thought choir leader was Mason

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 01:05 PM PDT

A sign and flowers are left by a parishioner at the St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church in Albuquerque Monday, April 29, 2013, a day after a man stabbed several churchgoers Sunday as Mass was ending. Police say four parishioners were injured, including church choir director Adam Alvarez, but none have life-threatening injuries. Lawrence Capener, 24, is charged with three counts with aggravated battery and is being held on $75,000 bail. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Albuquerque man accused of stabbing four churchgoers during Sunday Mass told police he was after the choir leader because he thought the man was a Mason.

Obama meets Neb boy who won hearts in spring game

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 01:05 PM PDT

This photo provided by Andy Hoffman shows his son Jack with former Nebraska football player Rex Burkhead after meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington, Monday, April 29, 2013. The 7-year-old, who is fighting brain cancer, attracted millions of fans after his 69-yard touchdown run during Nebraska's spring football game. (AP Photo/Courtesy Jack Hoffman)The 7-year-old cancer patient who became an Internet sensation for his touchdown run in Nebraska's spring football game has yet another fan — President Barack Obama.

Man wounded after pulling gun in Utah police lobby

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 01:05 PM PDT

Members of the West Valley City Police Forensics Unit examine bullets holes in a window at the West Valley City Police Department Monday, April 29, 2013, in West Valley City, Utah. Authorities in a Salt Lake City suburb say a man shot after pulling a gun in a police lobby told officers months ago that he wanted to be shot by police. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — A man who told authorities months ago that he wanted to be killed by police entered a suburban Salt Lake City police station Monday and pointed a gun at an officer and a records clerk, prompting a shootout that left the man wounded.

Grammy-winning cellist Janos Starker dead at 88

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 01:04 PM PDT

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Grammy Award-winning cellist Janos Starker has died after months of declining health. He was 88.

Mexican official's daughter gets restaurant closed

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 01:02 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican official's daughter has caused a scandal by sending inspectors to shut down a restaurant that didn't give her the table she wanted.

Italy's new government wins 1st confidence vote

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:59 PM PDT

Italian Premier Enrico Letta, is flanked by Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge, left, and Agriculture Minister Nunzia De Girolamo, during the swearing in ceremony of the new government at the Quirinale Presidential Palace, in Rome, Sunday, April 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)ROME (AP) — Italy's new government has easily won a confidence vote of confirmation in the lower house of Parliament.

Monster hurricane watch at Saturn's North Pole

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:59 PM PDT

In an undated in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and provided by NASA/JPL shows stunning views of a monster hurricane at Saturn's North Pole. The eye of the cyclone is an enormous 1,250 miles across. That's 20 times larger than the typical eye of a hurricane here on Earth. The hurricane is believed to have been there for years.This image is among the first sunlit views of Saturn's north pole captured by Cassini's imaging cameras. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured stunning views of a monster hurricane at Saturn's North Pole.

Budget cuts nix $51m in federal work study

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:58 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Schools in military communities and near tribal lands will receive $60 million less than expected this year. College students will earn $51 million less in federal work study programs.

Debris believed to be from 9/11 plane is from wing

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:57 PM PDT

New York City Police and members of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner enter a building in Lower Manhattan Monday, April 29, 2013, near the place where a rusted metal part from the wing of a Boeing 767 was found wedged between a mosque and an apartment building on Friday, April 26. Investigators initially thought it was part of the landing gear, because both pieces have similar hydraulics. Authorities believe the aircraft part is from one of the two hijacked planes used in the Sept. 11 attacks on the nearby World Trade Center. The medical examiner's office said Monday it is preparing the site and plans to begin sifting for human remains in the area on Tuesday, April 30. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK (AP) — The rusted metal aircraft part believed to be from one of the hijacked jetliners that slammed into the World Trade Center in the Sept. 11 attacks came from a wing, not landing gear, police said Monday.

Euro mayors try to keep youths from going to Syria

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:55 PM PDT

In this photo taken Tuesday, April 16, 2013, mayor of Mechelen Bart Somers speaks to The Associated Press at the city hall of Mechelen, Belgium. Through much of western Europe, scores of Islamic youths have heeded the call to take up arms for a cause that is only a few hours away by plane. The phenomenon has alarmed authorities amid signs that the insurgency is becoming increasingly radicalized, with strong infiltration by al-Qaida. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)MECHELEN, Belgium (AP) — From his city hall under Belgium's most imposing cathedral, Mayor Bart Somers is wracking his brains trying to figure out how to keep young Muslims from going to fight "holy war" in Syria against the Assad regime.

Support for Collins pours in from sporting world

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:54 PM PDT

(Reuters) - Jason Collins received an outpouring of support from the sporting world on Monday after announcing he was gay. The decision to reveal his homosexuality in an interview with Sports Illustrated made the 12-year National Basketball Association veteran the first active player in a major men's North American team sport to announce he was gay. The news sparked a near-instant outpouring of support from a wide range of public figures including politicians, musicians, actors and, perhaps most notably, his peers in the sports world. "Proud of @jasoncollins34. ...

New Italy PM Letta wins lower house confidence vote, as expected

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:53 PM PDT

Enrico Giovannini sits next to Maria Chiara Carrozza at the Lower house of the parliament in RomeROME (Reuters) - New Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta won his first confidence vote in parliament on Monday after promising to press for a change to the European Union's focus on austerity and pursue economic growth and jobs. The lower house confidence motion in his right-left coalition government passed easily as expected, with 453 votes votes in favor and 153 against. Letta was backed by his own center-left Democratic Party (PD), Silvio Berlusconi's center-right People of Freedom (PDL), as well as the centrist Civic Choice led by former prime minister Mario Monti. ...

Oil above $94 on US data, hope of EU rate cut

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:53 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The price of oil rose above $94 per barrel Monday as positive U.S. economic data added to optimism for a rate cut in Europe.

Beastie Boys memoir scheduled for 2015

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:52 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The Beastie Boys want it all on the record.

James Bond studio to open 1st US facility in Ga.

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:51 PM PDT

In this image provided by Pinewood Shepperton PLC, an artist's rendering of Pinewood Atlanta is shown. Pinewood Shepperton PLC and River's Rock LLC together announced a joint venture to be named Pinewood Atlanta, a full service film and entertainment studio complex comprised of five sound stages on 288 acres in Fayetteville, Ga., south of Atlanta. (AP Photo/Pinewood Shepperton PLC)ATLANTA (AP) — The British film studio that's home to the James Bond movie franchise announced plans Monday for its first U.S. film production facility, at a site near Atlanta.

Holocaust survivors, veterans gather at DC museum

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:50 PM PDT

Former President Bill Clinton, right, and poet Rebecca Dupas, left, present Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, second from left, and World War II Army veteran Scottie Ooton, a member of the 84th Infantry Division which liberated Hannover-Ahlem concentration camp, second from right, with pins marking the 20th anniversary of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Monday, April 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — Elderly Holocaust survivors and the veterans who helped liberate them gathered for what could be their last big reunion Monday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Florida legislators approve measure to speed up executions

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:46 PM PDT

Florida Governor Rick Scott holds a news conference at the State Emergency Operations CenterBy Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - The Florida Senate sent Governor Rick Scott a package of capital-punishment reforms on Monday designed to prevent condemned killers from spending decades on Death Row, despite warnings that speeding up the legal appeals process could lead to innocent prisoners being executed. The "Timely Justice Act" sets deadlines for condemned killers to file appeals, and for the state to proceed with issuing warrants after the Florida Supreme Court upholds death sentences. It also sets competency standards for lawyers handling cases. ...

Authorities: Student shoots self in Ohio classroom

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:44 PM PDT

Police and firefighters gather outside LaSalle High School, Monday, April 29, 2013, in Cincinnati, after a high school student pulled out a gun and shot himself in a classroom. The Hamilton County sheriff's office says the youth was taken to a hospital with a self-inflicted wound. They say there apparently was no threat to other students at the private school. (AP Photo/Cincinnati Enquirer, Glenn Hartong)CINCINNATI (AP) — An honors student at an all-male Catholic high school tried to commit suicide in his first-period classroom Monday, police said, critically wounding himself with a gunshot and sending other students scrambling for cover.

Bob Hope items to be auctioned for Calif. charity

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:44 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hundreds of personal items, including antiques, artwork and furniture once owned by Bob Hope and his wife, Dolores, will be auctioned to benefit a Southern California charity.

Surviving hell in a Bangladesh factory collapse

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:43 PM PDT

Merina, a survivor of the garment factory building collapse, is comforted by family members in hospital on Saturday April 27, 2013 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Merina was trapped under rubble for three days, surviving with nothing to eat and only a few sips of water. The building collapse was the worst disaster to hit Bangladesh's $20 billion a year garment industry.(AP Photo/Gillian Wong)SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Merina was so tired. It had been three days since the garment factory where she worked had collapsed around her, three days since she'd moved more than a few inches. In that time she'd had nothing to eat and just a few sips of water. The cries for help had long since subsided. The moans of the injured had gone silent.

Mandela appears an ailing man in video

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:43 PM PDT

In this image taken from video, the ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Madela is filmed Monday April 29, 2013, more than three weeks after being released from hospital. Mandela was treated in hospital for a recurring lung infection. South African President Jacob Zuma visited the former leader on Monday, but Mandela does not appear to speak during the televised portion of the visit, as he sits in an armchair, his head propped up by a pillow with his cheeks showing what appear to be marks from a recently removed oxygen mask, although Zuma said he found Nelson Mandela JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Jacob Zuma said he found Nelson Mandela "in good shape and in good spirits" Monday, but a video of his encounter with the ailing anti-apartheid icon belies those cheery words, showing him with a vacant look on his face.

Netherlands' Queen Beatrix gives farewell speech

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:40 PM PDT

Dutch Queen Beatrix and her son Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander pose for photographers as they arrive for a banquet hosted by the Dutch Royal family at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Monday, April 29, 2013. Queen Beatrix has announced she will relinquish the crown on April 30, 2013, after 33 years of reign, leaving the monarchy to her son Crown Prince Willem-Alexander. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Netherlands' Queen Beatrix thanked her people Monday and urged them to support her son, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, in a final address before she abdicates and he takes over as king.

Opening statements begin in Jackson death trial

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 27, 2011 file photo, Katherine Jackson poses for a portrait in Calabasas, Calif. Opening statements are scheduled to begin Monday April 29, 2013, in Jackson's lawsuit against concert giant AEG Live over her son Michael's 2009 death. Katherine Jackson claims the company failed to properly investigate the doctor who was convicted in 2011 of involuntary manslaughter for the singer's death, but the company denies all wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Concert giant AEG Live failed in its duty to properly investigate the doctor who treated Michael Jackson because it was concerned about its own fortunes, an attorney for the singer's mother told a jury Monday morning.

Obama and Putin discuss security in phone call

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:35 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin (POO'-tihn) have been discussing terrorism coordination in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Drama Desk Award nominations are unveiled

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:34 PM PDT

FILE - This file theater image released by The Hartman Group shows the cast during a performance of "Hands on a Hard Body," at the Brooks Atkinson Theater in New York and featuring songs co-written by Phish frontman Trey Anastasio. (AP Photo/The Hartman Group, Chad Batka, File)NEW YORK (AP) — The off-Broadway show "Giant" and the quickly shuttered Broadway musical "Hands on a Hardbody" lead the Drama Desk nomination race this season, with the British import "Matilda," the audience-friendly "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" and a revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Passion" close behind.

Colorado music promoter Barry Fey dies at 73

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:32 PM PDT

DENVER (AP) — Music promoter Barry Fey, who brought some of the biggest names in the business to Colorado, including the Doors, the Rolling Stones and U2, has died. He was 73.

Syrian prime minister survives Damascus bombing, six die

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:27 PM PDT

Firefighters work at the site of an explosion at al-Mezze neighbourhood in DamascusBy Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's prime minister survived a bomb attack on his convoy in Damascus on Monday, as rebels struck in the heart of President Bashar al-Assad's capital. Six people were killed in the blast, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Previous rebel attacks on government targets included a December bombing which wounded Assad's interior minister. ...

Lawyers, public chant "hang him" as Bangladesh building owner led to court

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:27 PM PDT

Garment workers try to break gate of factory during protest to demand capital punishment for those responsible for collapse of Rana Plaza building in SavarBy Ruma Paul and Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladeshi lawyers and protesters chanted "hang him, hang him" on Monday as the owner of a factory building that collapsed last week killing nearly 400 people was led into court dressed in a helmet and bullet-proof jacket, witnesses said. The drama came as rescue officials said they were unlikely to find more survivors in the rubble of the building that collapsed on Wednesday, burying hundreds of garment workers in the country's worst industrial accident. ...

Kosovo: 3 get jail time in organ trafficking case

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:27 PM PDT

Kosovo Albanian doctor Lutfi Dervishi, center, flanked by defense councils, sits in a court room, in Pristina, Kosovo, Monday, April 29, 2013. A Kosovo court has found two ethnic Albanians guilty of human trafficking and organized crime in a highly publicized trial against seven people suspected of running an international organ trafficking ring. A panel of two European Union and one Kosovo judges sentenced Lutfi Dervishi to eight years in prison and his son Arban Dervishi to seven years and three months in prison on Monday for extracting kidneys from poor donors who were lured by financial promises. ( AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A court in Kosovo found two citizens guilty of human trafficking and organized crime Monday in a major trial against seven people suspected of running an international organ trafficking ring that took kidneys from poor donors lured by financial promises.

More Osprey aircraft heading to Japan

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:24 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will deploy a second squadron of the MV-22 Osprey to Okinawa despite controversy over the aircraft, officials said Monday.

NBA veteran center Jason Collins comes out as gay

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:24 PM PDT

FILE - In a Wednesday, April 17, 2013 file photo, Washington Wizards center Jason Collins, right, battles for a rebound against Chicago Bulls guard Kirk Hinrich during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Chicago. NBA veteran center Collins has become the first male professional athlete in the major four American sports leagues to come out as gay. Collins wrote a first-person account posted Monday, April 29, 2013 on Sports Illustrated's website. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — With the simplest of sentences, NBA veteran Jason Collins set aside years of worry and silence to become the first active player in one of four major U.S. professional sports leagues to come out as gay.

Obama taps Foxx - NC mayor - to run Transportation

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:22 PM PDT

President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx as his new Transportation Secretary, a White House official says. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday tapped rising Democratic politician Anthony Foxx to lead the Department of Transportation, an agency at the center of Washington's fiscal fights.

Aircraft crash in Afghanistan kills 7

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:21 PM PDT

Afghan boys play on a road on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A civilian cargo aircraft crashed at Bagram Air Field, north of the Afghan capital, soon after takeoff on Monday, killing all seven people aboard, the U.S.-led military coalition said.

Karzai: US gives funds to national security team

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:17 PM PDT

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, right, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai shake hands in Helsinki, Finland Monday, April 29, 2013. Afghan President Karzai arrived to Finland for a working visit Monday. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva, Heikki Saukkomaa) FINLAND OUT, NO THIRD PARTY SALESKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that his national security team has been receiving payments from the U.S. government for the past 10 years.

Utah police: Man shot talked of suicide before

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:11 PM PDT

Members of the West Valley City Police Forensics Unit examine bullets holes in a window at the West Valley City Police Department Monday, April 29, 2013, in West Valley City, Utah. Authorities in a Salt Lake City suburb say a man shot after pulling a gun in a police lobby told officers months ago that he wanted to be shot by police. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — A man shot and wounded Monday morning after pulling a gun in a police station lobby in suburban Salt Lake City told officers months ago that he wanted to be killed by police because he was a registered sex offender and his wife was taking his kids, authorities said.

Ex-Mich. congresswoman presides over ET hearings

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:11 PM PDT

FILE - Then-U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick is seen at the Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit on May 21, 2010 in Detroit. Kilpatrick and six other former members of Congress are chairing a hearing on whether there is life beyond Earth. It began Monday, April 29, 2013, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.., and runs through May 3. A private group sponsoring the hearing says it hopes to prove that aliens contact Earth, and that the government is trying to keep it secret. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)DETROIT (AP) — Ex-U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick of Detroit and six other former Congress members are presiding over hearings on the existence of extraterrestrials.

Italy's new leader promises to ease taxes

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:10 PM PDT

Italian Premier Enrico Letta, is flanked by Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge, left, and Agriculture Minister Nunzia De Girolamo, during the swearing in ceremony of the new government at the Quirinale Presidential Palace, in Rome, Sunday, April 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)ROME (AP) — Italy's new premier on Monday made immediate concessions to his uneasy coalition allies, promising to ease part of a slate of austerity measures that have weighed on Italians impatient at the slow pace of economic recovery.

Sarah Jessica Parker aboard Amanda Peet's play

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:08 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Amanda Peet has managed to lure Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker to share a stage again with her first play.

Bowing in 'pigeon' fight, France slashes taxes

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:03 PM PDT

France's President Francois Hollande arrives to deliver a speech to ministers and members of the White Book of Defense and National Security committee at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, Monday April 29, 2013. France said Monday it will cut another 24,000 military jobs by 2019 as it attempts to maintain a force ready to deal with global threats at the time when the bill for France's decades of deficit spending is due. (AP Photo/Bertrand Langlois, Pool)PARIS (AP) — President Francois Hollande announced on Monday a series of measures to encourage the French entrepreneurial spirit, including drastic cuts in capital gains taxes — up to 65 percent — for the sale of small companies and a plan to make France start-up friendly.

Lawyer: Pa. abortion clinic no 'house of horrors'

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:02 PM PDT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A defense lawyer asked a jury Monday to transcend both the politics and unpleasant reality of abortion when it weighs murder charges against a doctor charged with killing a patient and four babies.
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