Review chairman: Clinton didn't make Benghazi call
Written by PHILIP ELLIOTT,Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The seasoned diplomat who penned a highly critical report on security at a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, defended his scathing assessment but absolved then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. "We knew where the responsibility rested," Thomas Pickering said Sunday.
Bold turkey: woman hits cop to kick smoking habit
Written by AP
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Think you've heard of every way possible to quit smoking? Etta Mae Lopez came up with a new one: slap a cop and go to jail, where smoking isn't allowed.
Future heads of family farms dig into financials
Written by ALAN SCHER ZAGIER,Associated Press
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Jake Anderson didn't have to delve too deep into the University of Missouri's agricultural economics program before realizing he was destined to return to the 1,500-acre family farm. After all, that's been the Anderson family trade since 1891, when his great-great grandfather came to Callaway County from Sweden.
IRS apologizes for targeting tea party groups
Written by STEPHEN OHLEMACHER,Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for what it acknowledges was "inappropriate" targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.
Texas launches criminal probe into plant explosion
Written by ANGELA K. BROWN,Associated Press RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI,Associated Press
WACO, Texas (AP) — Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident.
Ex-dictator convicted of genocide in Guatemala
Written by SONIA PEREZ DIAZ,Associated Press
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's conviction of genocide is a historic moment in a country still healing from a brutal, three-decade civil war and his trial offered Guatemala's oppressed indigenous communities their first chance to be heard, human rights activists said.
Newtown panel: Tear down Sandy Hook, rebuild
Written by DAVE COLLINS,Associated Press
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Newtown parents Steven Uhde and Peter Barresi didn't want the town to abandon the elementary school property where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in December and build a new school elsewhere, saying that would be like letting the gunman win.
Bangladesh workers find survivor in factory rubble
Written by JULHAS ALAM,Associated Press
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Rescue workers in Bangladesh freed a woman buried for 17 days inside the wreckage of a garment factory building that collapsed, killing more than 1,000 people.
The rescuers discovered the woman Friday afternoon and ordered the cranes and bulldozers to immediately stop work. They used handsaws to cut her out of the rubble, and the crowd gathered at the scene erupted in cheers when she was freed. She was rushed to a military hospital in an ambulance.
Soldiers at the site said her name was Reshma and described her as being in remarkably good shape despite her ordeal.
Abdur Razzak, a warrant officer with the military's engineering department who spotted her in the wreckage, said she was OK and could even walk.
Workers at the site began tearing through the nearby wreckage looking for other survivors.
Last Updated on Friday, 10 May 2013
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