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| Mexico's Sinaloa drug chief arrested Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 02:03 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A massive operation that mushroomed through the western Mexican state of Sinaloa last week netted the world's top drug lord, who was captured early Saturday by U.S. and Mexican authorities at a condominium in Mazatlan, officials from both countries said. Full Story | Top |
| Sierra Leone unearths $6-million diamond Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 10:39 AM PST  The stone, dug up last week in the eastern district of Kono, was measured at 153 carats, making it significantly bigger than the largest find of 2013, a 125-carat diamond unearthed in the same area, the state-run National Minerals Agency said. It was graded as D+ on the D-to-Z diamond colour scale, meaning that it has almost no yellow tint caused by nitrogen impurities, and the agency said it "could only be matched or surpassed by fancy diamonds such as blue or pink in terms of price". Sierra Leone remains one of the world's poorest countries after a brutal 11-year civil war which ended in 2002 -- a conflict that left the world with images of feared rebel leaders armed from the sale of "blood diamonds" recruiting drugged-up child soldiers and hacking the limbs off thousands of civilians. Full Story | Top |
| Early House race tests Obamacare as election issue Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 07:16 AM PST  CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — The candidates are Alex Sink, Democrat, and David Jolly, Republican, but Obamacare is on the ballot in a big way in a competitive House race in Florida that offers a preview of the nationwide campaign for Congress this fall. Full Story | Top |
| Venezuelans protest en masse in rival rallies Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 06:02 PM PST Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas in marches for and against President Nicolas Maduro's government Saturday, as the nation's massive divide became ever more visible. The protests -- which began on February 4 -- are seen as the biggest test yet to socialist leader Maduro since he succeeded late leftist icon Hugo Chavez last year, with the country's economic problems at the heart of often bloody scenes that have left 10 people dead and scores injured. Just 24 hours after Maduro made a rare offer to US President Barack Obama of talks to end more than a decade of enmity, there appeared no prospect of rapprochement after Secretary of State John Kerry hit out at the Venezuelan government's handling of the protests. Heeding the call of opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who narrowly lost to Maduro in the election to succeed Chavez last year, at least 50,000 anti-government protesters streamed into several avenues in the Caracas neighborhood of Sucre. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine protesters take Kiev; president says coup Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 09:35 AM PST KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Protesters took control of Ukraine's capital Saturday, seizing the president's office as parliament voted to remove him and hold new elections. President Viktor Yanukovych described the events as a coup and insisted he would not step down. Full Story | Top |
| Maria von Trapp, 99, dies in Vermont Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 07:03 PM PST  STOWE, Vermont (AP) — Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member and second-eldest daughter of the musical family whose escape from Nazi-occupied Austria was the basis for "The Sound of Music," has died. She was 99. Full Story | Top |
| NYC mayor in hot water on dangerous driving Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 03:33 AM PST  New York's mayor fanned accusations of hypocrisy on Friday after refusing to answer questions about his SUV violating traffic rules two days after he ordered a crackdown on dangerous driving. Bill de Blasio, who has promised to curb massive inequality, infuriated journalists when he blocked any questions about the incident at a considerably delayed news conference. Just two days earlier the Democrat had ordered a crackdown on dangerous driving designed to slash traffic deaths. "De Blasio refusing to take questions on a fairly mid-level scandal does not portend well for his administration," wrote political journalist Andrew Hawkins. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine's Tymoshenko rallies protesters in Kiev Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 03:23 PM PST KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — In a stunning reversal of fortune, Ukrainian opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko left imprisonment Saturday and spoke to a massive, adoring crowd, while her arch-foe President Viktor Yanukovych decamped to eastern Ukraine and vowed he would remain in power. Full Story | Top |
| Teen Is Reluctant To Share Summer Camp With Friends Friday, Feb 21, 2014 09:00 PM PST DEAR ABBY: I'm 14. Last summer I went to camp in a different state with my cousin "Mary." I told my friends at school about our adventures, and a couple of them said they want to go there with me next summer. Mary and I don't get a lot of time together, and camp is one of the only times when I can see her. I don't want my friends to come. How can I tell them that without hurting their feelings? -- TORN IN TEXAS DEAR TORN: Out-of-state summer camps can be expensive, and although your friends might want to come to yours, it remains to be seen if their families can afford to send them. ... Full Story | Top |
| Benedict joins Francis in historic 1st ceremony Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 04:14 AM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) — Retired Pope Benedict XVI joined Pope Francis at a ceremony Saturday creating the cardinals who will elect their successor in an unprecedented blending of papacies past, present and future. Full Story | Top |
| Obama: Americans deserve a vote on minimum wage Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 03:04 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says hardworking Americans deserve a vote in Congress on a minimum raise hike. Full Story | Top |
| Florida man shocked to learn of Medal of Honor Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 09:47 AM PST  MIAMI (AP) — Melvin Morris was commanding a strike force on a mission near Chi Lang, South Vietnam, when his special forces group came under attack and a fellow commander was killed near an enemy bunker. Full Story | Top |
| Pentagon moving ahead with new vertical lift aircraft Friday, Feb 21, 2014 08:47 PM PST  By Andrea Shalal HUNTSVILLE, Alabama (Reuters) - The Pentagon is committed to early design work on a new aircraft that will replace thousands of helicopters now used by the U.S. military, its first "clean sheet design" program in years, the Army official heading the effort said on Friday. Dan Bailey, a former Apache helicopter pilot who heads the "future vertical lift" program and the research effort under way to explore possible approaches, said there was no push to reduce funding for the program, despite pressure on nearly every other arms program in the Pentagon's portfolio. "The science and technology effort is supported 100 percent," Bailey told reporters at a conference hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army, an Army booster group. Army acquisition chief Heidi Shyu and General Dennis Via, who heads Army Materiel Command, both underscored their support for the program in speeches at the conference. Full Story | Top |
| You won’t believe the lenient punishment for this kindergartener-dragging principal [VIDEO] Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 08:04 AM PST NBC Connecticut has obtained damning school surveillance video appearing to show an elementary school principal dragging kindergarteners down school hallways on two separate occasions. The principal is Carmen Perez Dickson. At the time, she was the chief administrator at Tisdale School in Bridgeport, Conn. So, America, guess what happened to Dickson. Full Story | Top |
| NJ's Christie keeps low profile as Dems attack Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 01:31 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving cautiously to repair his image, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is maintaining a low profile this weekend as the nation's governors gather in Washington. Full Story | Top |
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