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| Malaysia Airlines hunts for missing flight Friday, Mar 07, 2014 08:19 PM PST  Boeing 777 carrying 239 people to Beijing went missing about 2 hours after takeoff. Full Story | Top |
| Mystery hangs over identity of deadly Kiev snipers Friday, Mar 07, 2014 02:52 PM PST  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — One of the biggest mysteries hanging over the protest mayhem that drove Ukraine's president from power: Who was behind the snipers who sowed death and terror in Kiev? Full Story | Top |
| Poll: Call them 'generation unaffiliated' Friday, Mar 07, 2014 02:56 PM PST  Today's 20-somethings found to be less into traditional institutions than ever before. Full Story | Top |
| 'Holy grail of guitars' is hitting the auction block Friday, Mar 07, 2014 11:31 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — The "holy grail of guitars" is among the hundreds of rare and vintage acoustic guitars going on the auction block in New York next month. Full Story | Top |
| Standoff reported at Ukrainian military base Friday, Mar 07, 2014 01:04 PM PST  Crimea's new leader says 11,000 Russian troops now control all access to strategic region. Full Story | Top |
| Who needs speeches? Scenes from CPAC Friday, Mar 07, 2014 12:10 PM PST  Get weird at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Full Story | Top |
| Is airplane turbulence becoming more dangerous? Friday, Mar 07, 2014 08:56 AM PST  Despite technological advances in detecting and avoiding turbulence, it remains a threat to anything that flies, including civil, military and commercial aircraft of any size, and some experts believe we'll be encountering more such episodes, thanks to the effects of climate change. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysia Airlines: Plane lost with 239 on board Friday, Mar 07, 2014 07:14 PM PST  Carrier says it lost contact with Boeing 777 on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysia Airlines: Plane lost with 239 on board Friday, Mar 07, 2014 05:34 PM PST Carrier says it lost contact with Boeing 777 on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Full Story | Top |
| Study ties trouble sleeping to reduced brain volume Friday, Mar 07, 2014 01:33 PM PST  By Ronnie Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have trouble sleeping tend to have less volume in certain regions of the brain than those without sleep problems, a new study of Persian Gulf War veterans suggests. "People discount the importance of sleep. "The study suggests we shouldn't discount sleep importance," she said. In their study, sleep was associated with the amount of gray matter in the brain's frontal lobe in particular. Full Story | Top |
| U.N. warns of 'lost generation' in Syria Friday, Mar 07, 2014 11:39 AM PST  Security Council revisits resolution on children in conflict first adopted 15 years ago. Full Story | Top |
| Mom who drove kids into ocean charged with attempted murder Friday, Mar 07, 2014 10:50 AM PST  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A pregnant South Carolina woman who drove a minivan carrying her three young children into the ocean surf off Florida was charged Friday with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse, though she has denied trying to harm anyone, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| Witnesses: Russians take Crimea military post Friday, Mar 07, 2014 12:15 PM PST  Ukrainian military official says missile defense was taken over with no shots fired. Full Story | Top |
| Russia rallies support for Crimea Friday, Mar 07, 2014 09:19 AM PST  Across Red Square, 65,000 people waved Russian flags, chanting "Crimea is Russia!" Full Story | Top |
| Criminal lawyer's ad is subversive, sarcastic and pretty awesome Friday, Mar 07, 2014 07:42 AM PST  Daniel Muessig is a criminal defense attorney not a judge. In an over-the-top online video that's making the rounds, Muessig says, "I'm the Pittsburgh criminal defense attorney Pittsburgh criminals hire when they commit crimes." Full Story | Top |
| Mass. governor signs law banning 'upskirt' photos Friday, Mar 07, 2014 10:29 AM PST  BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed a bill on Friday updating the state's voyeurism laws, just two days after the state's highest court ruled that a man who took cellphone photos up the skirts of female subway passengers in Boston wasn't violating the law as written. Full Story | Top |
| Army general coerced captain into affair, prosecutors say Friday, Mar 07, 2014 08:22 AM PST  FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — With the Pentagon under increased scrutiny over revelations of rampant rape and sexual misconduct within the ranks, opening statements began Friday in a rare court-martial of an Army general — believed to be the most senior member of the U.S. military to face trial on sex assault charges. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine Paralympic chief says will quit Games if Russia invades Friday, Mar 07, 2014 07:13 AM PST  By Alexei Anishchuk SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Ukraine's Paralympic chief, Valeriy Sushkevich, said on Friday his team would quit the Winter Paralympic Games if Russia invaded his home country, and that he hoped the competition would be able to spread peace instead. Russia is holding the Games in the Black Sea resort of Sochi at a time when it is being criticised for its actions in Ukraine's southern region of Crimea, where the West accuses Russia of seizing military and government institutions. While Putin says he has the right to send in troops to defend Russian compatriots there but that so far he sees no need to do so. "If there is an escalation of the conflict, intervention on the territory of our country, God forbid the worst, we would not be able to stay here, we would go," Sushkevich told a news conference. Full Story | Top |
| Fire destroys 'Party Animal' house in Detroit Friday, Mar 07, 2014 08:27 AM PST  DETROIT (AP) — A house covered in stuffed animals and dolls that was a key part of the Heidelberg Project in Detroit became the latest casualty Friday in a 10-month string of suspicious fires that has devastated much of the long-running interactive outdoor art installation. Full Story | Top |
| Not me: Calif. man denies he's bitcoin founder Friday, Mar 07, 2014 04:37 AM PST  The denial comes after a published report claims he's behind the virtual currency. Full Story | Top |
| Pro-Crimea rally attacts 65,000 to Kremlin Friday, Mar 07, 2014 06:35 AM PST  Over 65,000 people waving Russian flags and banners attended a rally in central Moscow on Friday, in a show of solidarity with pro-Russian authorities in the Ukrainian region of Crimea, police said. The rally, entitled "We are together", which began with Russian pop star Oleg Gazmanov singing patriotic songs, took place just outside the walls of the Kremlin. Crimean parliament speaker Vladimir Konstantinov, who earlier met top lawmakers in Moscow, offered greetings "from Crimea" as he took to the stage amid cheers. "Yesterday we took a historic decision," he said, referring to a request by the autonomous republic's parliament to join Russia, a move they want voters to ratify in a March 16 referendum. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. job growth offers upbeat sign for weather-beaten economy Friday, Mar 07, 2014 01:39 PM PST  By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth accelerated sharply in February despite the icy weather that gripped much of the nation, easing fears of an abrupt economic slowdown and keeping the Federal Reserve on track to continue reducing its monetary stimulus. Employers added 175,000 jobs to their payrolls last month after creating 129,000 new positions in January, the Labor Department said on Friday. The unemployment rate, however, rose to 6.7 percent from a five-year low of 6.6 percent as Americans flooded into the labor market to search for work. "It reinforces the case for the economy being stronger than it's looked for the last couple of months," said Bill Cheney, chief economist at John Hancock Financial Services in Boston. Full Story | Top |
| Religious conservatives facing off at conference Friday, Mar 07, 2014 04:56 AM PST  OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The early auditions for the Republican Party's next presidential contest are in full swing at the nation's largest annual gathering of conservative activists, where some of the GOP's most prominent religious conservatives are facing off. Full Story | Top |
| Controversy marks Newsweek's comeback Friday, Mar 07, 2014 07:37 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — A mystery man. A splashy reveal. A media frenzy. Newsweek staked its return from the dead on a story it knew would get attention. A cover story claiming it had uncovered "the face behind bitcoin," the world's most popular digital currency. Full Story | Top |
| Blast of winter weather can't faze US employers Friday, Mar 07, 2014 01:48 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Brutal winter weather snarled traffic, canceled flights and cut power to homes and factories in February. Yet it didn't faze U.S. employers, who added 175,000 jobs, far more than the two previous months. Full Story | Top |
| Officer says US general sexually assaulted her Friday, Mar 07, 2014 06:06 PM PST FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — An Army captain at the center of a sexual assault case that has scandalized the U.S. military testified Friday that a general twice forced her to perform oral sex on him during their three-year, illicit affair. Full Story | Top |
| Kids rescued from surf: 'Mom tried to kill us' Friday, Mar 07, 2014 04:06 PM PST  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — After she drove her minivan into the crashing waves of the Atlantic Ocean, authorities say a pregnant South Carolina woman tried to call off bystanders hustling to rescue her three screaming children from the water that was rushing in through the windows. Full Story | Top |
| Pistorius trial hears damaging testimony Friday, Mar 07, 2014 03:06 PM PST  PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — In a day of potentially damaging testimony, a former girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius said at his murder trial Friday that he once shot his gun out of a car sunroof and later cheated on her with the woman he killed last year. And a security guard recalled the athlete telling him everything was "fine" after neighbors reported gunshots coming from Pistorius' house on the night of her death. Full Story | Top |
| GOP pushes social issues at conservative showcase Friday, Mar 07, 2014 12:48 PM PST  OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Some of the GOP's most prominent conservatives insisted Friday that Republicans should emphasize hot-button social issues like abortion and gay marriage in this year's midterm elections, exposing an ideological divide within a party trying to capture the Senate and then the White House. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine decides to compete in Paralympics in Sochi Friday, Mar 07, 2014 07:00 AM PST SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Ukraine will compete in the Winter Paralympics in Sochi despite Russia's military moves in Crimea. Full Story | Top |
| Report: Vietnam detects signals from missing plane Friday, Mar 07, 2014 08:08 PM PST BEIJING (AP) — Vietnamese media reported that authorities have detected signals from a missing Malaysia Airlines flight off the southwestern coast of Vietnam on Saturday, hours after the flight went missing during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Full Story | Top |
| China: Vietnam detects signals from missing place Friday, Mar 07, 2014 07:54 PM PST BEIJING (AP) — China's state media says Vietnamese authorities have detected signals from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. Full Story | Top |
| APNewsBreak: FBI investigates prison company Friday, Mar 07, 2014 03:25 PM PST  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The FBI has launched an investigation of the Corrections Corporation of America over the company's running of an Idaho prison with a reputation so violent that inmates dubbed it "Gladiator School." Full Story | Top |
| Militant grip transforms, terrorizes Syrian city Friday, Mar 07, 2014 08:46 AM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — Once a vibrant, religiously mixed community, Syria's eastern city of Raqqa is now a shell of its former self, terrorized by hard-line militants who have turned it into the nucleus of their vision for the Islamic caliphate they hope one day to establish in Syria and Iraq. Full Story | Top |
| Opening statements to begin in general's sex trial Friday, Mar 07, 2014 05:04 AM PST FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — With the Pentagon under increased scrutiny over revelations of rampant rape and sexual misconduct within the ranks, opening statements were set to begin Friday in a rare court-martial of an Army general — believed to be the most senior member of the U.S. military to face trial on sex assault charges. Full Story | Top |
| Putin rebuffs Obama's warning on Ukraine Friday, Mar 07, 2014 02:01 PM PST  After an hour-long phone call, Putin says Russia and the U.S. are still far apart. Full Story | Top |
| Sports medicine pioneer Frank Jobe dies at 88 Friday, Mar 07, 2014 02:24 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dr. Frank Jobe, a pioneering orthopedic surgeon who was the first to perform an elbow procedure that became known as Tommy John surgery and saved the careers of countless major league pitchers, died Thursday. He was 88. Full Story | Top |
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