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| Malaysian leader: plane's disappearance deliberate Saturday, Mar 15, 2014 01:03 AM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian passenger jet missing for more than a week had its communications deliberately disabled and its last signal came about seven and a half hours after takeoff, meaning it could have ended up as far as Kazakhstan or deep in the southern Indian Ocean, Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday Full Story | Top |
| Sam Adams beer manufacturer pulls out of South Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade Saturday, Mar 15, 2014 05:33 AM PDT The company behind America's largest brewery said it was pulling out in protest over the parade organizer's refusal to allow a LGBT group to march in the parade. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysia plane pilots, passengers back under scrutiny Saturday, Mar 15, 2014 08:48 AM PDT  Confirmation that a missing Malaysian airliner was deliberately diverted suggests several scenarios that have sharpened scrutiny of the passengers and cockpit crew, with police reportedly searching the pilot's home. Prime Minister Najib Razak announced Saturday that satellite and radar data clearly indicated the plane's automated communications had been disabled and the plane then turned away from its intended path and flown on for hours. "These movements are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane," he said, adding that investigators had consequently "refocused their investigation into crew and passengers on board." Flight MH370 was under the command of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, and his First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine says Russian forces move outside Crimea Saturday, Mar 15, 2014 08:20 PM PDT  SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces backed by helicopter gunships and armored vehicles Saturday took control of a village near the border with Crimea on the eve of a referendum on whether the region should seek annexation by Moscow, Ukrainian officials said. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysian official says missing plane hijacked Friday, Mar 14, 2014 10:16 PM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian investigation into the missing flight 370 has concluded that one or more people with flying experience switched off communications devices and deliberately steered the airliner off-course, a Malaysian government official involved in the investigation said Saturday. Full Story | Top |
| Thousands march in Moscow to protest Crimea vote Saturday, Mar 15, 2014 11:42 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters marched in central Moscow Saturday against a Kremlin-backed referendum in Crimea on whether to break away from Ukraine and join Russia. Full Story | Top |
| Karzai says Afghanistan doesn't need US troops Saturday, Mar 15, 2014 05:28 AM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In his final address to Afghanistan's parliament Saturday, President Hamid Karzai told the United States its soldiers can leave at the end of the year because his military, which already protects 93 percent of the country, was ready to take over entirely. Full Story | Top |
| Obama touts overhaul of rules on who gets overtime Saturday, Mar 15, 2014 03:02 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says it's not right that businesses that treat their employers fairly can be undercut by competitors who don't. Full Story | Top |
| Judge calls Tenn. gay marriage ban historical 'footnote': Do Southerners now agree? Saturday, Mar 15, 2014 10:16 AM PDT In ordering an injunction against Tennessee's ban on gay marriage, a federal judge on Friday called laws against recognizing same sex couples mere "footnotes" in history. As the legal battle over gay rights shifts to the South, the big question now is whether Southerners have tacitly begun to agree with that notion. The injunction ruling by Judge Aleta Trauger covers three couples who filed a lawsuit last year against the 2006 state constitutional amendment that both bans gay marriage in the state and orders officials not to recognize marriage certificates from other states. "At this point, all signs indicate that, in the eyes of the United States Constitution, the plaintiffs' marriages will be placed on an equal footing with those of heterosexual couples and that proscriptions against same-sex marriage will soon become a footnote in the annals of American history," Judge Trauger wrote in the order. Full Story | Top |
| Indian search finds no trace of Malaysian plane Saturday, Mar 15, 2014 06:02 AM PDT NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian navy ships supported by long-range surveillance planes and helicopters scoured Andaman Sea islands for a third day on Saturday without any success in finding evidence of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, officials said. Full Story | Top |
| Russian propaganda war in full swing over Ukraine Saturday, Mar 15, 2014 08:05 AM PDT MOSCOW (AP) — This is Ukraine today, at least as seen by most Russian news media: the government is run by anti-Semitic fascists, people killed in protests were shot by opposition snipers and the West is behind it all. Full Story | Top |
| UN resolution on Crimea: Russia vetoes, China abstains Saturday, Mar 15, 2014 09:16 AM PDT  United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Russia vetoed a Western-backed resolution condemning the Crimea referendum at a UN Security Council emergency vote Saturday but China abstained, isolating Moscow further on the Ukraine crisis. The draft resolution, which says Sunday's referendum would have no validity, got 13 votes in the 15-member council. But it was rejected when permanent member Russia exercised its veto. "Russia isolated, alone and wrong blocked the resolution's passage," US ambassador Samantha Power told the council at its seventh emergency session on Ukraine since the crisis began. Full Story | Top |
| Missing plane throws spotlight on passport theft Saturday, Mar 15, 2014 12:11 AM PDT  PHUKET, Thailand (AP) — When a German tourist refused to surrender his passport as collateral at a car rental stand along a popular beach in the Thai resort city of Phuket, the woman behind the counter pulled out a bag full of passport books to prove he could trust her. Full Story | Top |
| Mexico to draw line on vigilantes Saturday, Mar 15, 2014 01:57 AM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have finally served notice to vigilantes fighting a drug cartel in western Michoacan state that their illegal tactics will no longer be tolerated, starting with a string of arrests this week. Full Story | Top |
| Gaza's only power plant 'shuts down for lack of fuel' Saturday, Mar 15, 2014 06:52 AM PDT  Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - The Gaza Strip's only power plant shut down Saturday due to a lack of fuel from Israel, which closed a goods crossing after militant rocket attacks, a Palestinian official said. An Israeli official denied the claim, however, saying the lack of fuel was due to infighting between the Islamist Hamas movement ruling Gaza and the Western-backed Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Full Story | Top |
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