| Firemen cut power to runaway train's brakes Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:57 PM PDT  Two people died and 40 others are missing and feared dead after the Quebec accident.
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| Judge allows pot evidence in Zimmerman trial Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:21 PM PDT  A Florida judge ruled that defense lawyers can introduce evidence in the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman that Trayvon Martin had the active ingredient of marijuana in his system when he was shot dead.
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| Asiana passenger describes crash, calm amidst chaos Posted: 08 Jul 2013 12:41 PM PDT  Wendell Hom trained at a Yongmudo martial art camp in Seoul, went diving and surfing in Bali and took muay thai boxing classes in Bangkok. "It's been a month," he posted from Thailand on his Facebook account. "The adventure ends and it's time to go home." Not quite. Hom, a senior software engineer at a [...]
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| Clashes by Egypt army, protesters kill at least 54 Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:19 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egypt was rocked Monday by the deadliest day since its Islamist president was toppled by the military, with more than 50 of his supporters killed by security forces as the country's top Muslim cleric raised the specter of civil war. |
| Crash investigators turn to cockpit decisions Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:56 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Investigators trying to understand why Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash-landed focused Monday on the actions of an experienced pilot learning his way around a new aircraft, fellow pilots who were supposed to be monitoring him and why no one noticed that the plane was coming in too slow.
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| Perry reshaped Texas, but foundered nationally Posted: 08 Jul 2013 01:35 PM PDT  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Gov. Rick Perry was a champion of fiercely conservative social activism long before the tea party was born. He oversaw the "Texas Miracle" job-creation boom and became the state's most powerful governor since Reconstruction.
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| Dad says he didn't deny it was Trayvon's voice Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:02 PM PDT  SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Trayvon Martin's father testified Monday that he never denied it was his son's voice screaming for help on a 911 call, contradicting police officers' earlier testimony at George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial.
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| Canada train derailment death toll rises to 13 Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:23 PM PDT  LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) — Traumatized survivors of an oil train derailment that wiped out the heart of a small town braced for more bad news as inspectors were finally cleared to enter the charred site and look for remains late Monday, more than two days after the disaster that killed at least 13 people. A total of 50 were missing and the death toll was sure to rise.
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| Report assails Pakistani officials over bin Laden Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:06 PM PDT  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden was able to live in Pakistan undetected for nine years because of a breathtaking scale of negligence and incompetence at practically all levels of the Pakistani government, according to an official government report published by a TV channel on Monday.
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| Girl who got new lungs in Pa. has pneumonia Posted: 08 Jul 2013 01:41 PM PDT  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who had a pair of adult-lung transplants after her parents sued to change national rules regarding organ donations has developed pneumonia in her right lung, which her mother described on Monday as "a large setback."
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| Study: Air pollution cut northern China lifespans Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:12 PM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — A new study links heavy air pollution from coal burning to shorter lives in northern China. Researchers estimate that the half-billion people alive there in the 1990s will live an average of 5½ years less than their southern counterparts because they breathed dirtier air.
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| Randy Travis in critical in Texas hospital Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:37 PM PDT  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music star Randy Travis was in critical condition Monday in a Texas hospital, a day after he was hospitalized with viral cardiomyopathy.
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| Spitzer, Weiner make NYC political comeback city Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:45 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — First, Anthony Weiner vaulted back from an embarrassing sexting scandal to become a top mayoral contender. Now, Eliot Spitzer has sprinted onto the comeback campaign trail in New York City, where this fall's races are turning into a mini-Olympics of political redemption.
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| NTSB: Plane parts found in San Francisco Bay Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:30 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Asiana jet that crashed at San Francisco International Airport left lower sections of its tail on a rocky seawall and in the bay, then scattered debris several hundred feet down the runway, the NTSB reported Monday in describing the plane's deadly path. |
| Pa. father, son get prison in NY prostitution case Posted: 08 Jul 2013 12:10 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A case that became a tabloid spectacle when high-priced prostitutes testified in support of father-and-son pimps from Pennsylvania ended Monday with the pair being sentenced to three to nine years in prison.
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| Judge: Martin's use of pot may be presented Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:18 PM PDT SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge has ruled that jurors at George Zimmerman's trial may be told that Trayvon Martin had small amounts of marijuana in his body when he died. |
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