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• 4-year-old girl shot dead in car in Miami
• Signed Iconic Beatles Album Auctioned for $290,500
• South Africa says Mandela's condition has improved
• 1 killed, 3 hurt accident at Ark. nuclear plant
• High court poised to upend civil rights policies
• Sanity at issue at Wisconsin dad's trial for killing 3 girls
• Mark Kelly: Gun control bills need better background checks
• Mayor: Deaths of Texas DA, wife 'not a random act'
• Rivals prepare for legal battle over abortion bans
• Study shows Shakespeare as ruthless businessman
• Exxon continues cleanup of Arkansas oil pipeline spill
• Did you hear something? Mice can cough, study finds
• NKorea calls nukes country's 'life' at big meeting
• Pope makes Easter plea for Mideast peace
• 5 young siblings die in house fire in France
• Fighting erupts after car bombing in Mali
• Churches slam British government's welfare reforms
• Uneasy calm in Kenya after court ruling on vote
• Afghans warned: the taxman is coming after you
• Pope appeals for peace in Easter message
• 2 in China first known deaths from H7N9 bird flu
• Egypt's 'Jon Stewart' appears before prosecutors
• Pope leads Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square
• At least 12 killed in Mexican bus crash
• Exxon pipeline leaks thousands of barrels of Canadian oil in Arkansas

4-year-old girl shot dead in car in Miami Posted: 31 Mar 2013 12:40 PM PDT MIAMI (AP) — A 4-year-old girl was fatally shot while she sat in a car outside her grandfather's Miami home, and now detectives are trying to determine if another child who was in the vehicle pulled the trigger, police said Sunday.

Signed Iconic Beatles Album Auctioned for $290,500 Posted: 31 Mar 2013 12:30 PM PDT A copy of The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album autographed by all four band members has shattered expectations at auction. The iconic album was sold Saturday for $290,500 by Heritage Auctions in Dallas. It had been listed at $30,000 before the sale....

South Africa says Mandela's condition has improved Posted: 31 Mar 2013 11:54 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The condition of South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela has improved further, the government said on Sunday, as the 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero spent a fourth day in hospital receiving treatment for pneumonia. "Former President Nelson Mandela had a restful day," South Africa's presidency said in a statement, adding that doctors treating him had reported "a further improvement in his condition". (Reporting by Ed Stoddard; Editing by Pascal Fletcher)

1 killed, 3 hurt accident at Ark. nuclear plant Posted: 31 Mar 2013 11:38 AM PDT RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) — One worker died and three others were injured Sunday morning when a heavy piece of equipment fell on them at an Arkansas nuclear plant, officials said.

High court poised to upend civil rights policies Posted: 31 Mar 2013 10:53 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Has the nation lived down its history of racism and should the law become colorblind?

Sanity at issue at Wisconsin dad's trial for killing 3 girls Posted: 31 Mar 2013 10:06 AM PDT HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — Police found a horrifying scene at the Schaffhausen family home in the western Wisconsin city of River Falls last July: three girls dead in their beds, their throats slashed. In the basement, gasoline was sloshed in a possible attempt to burn down their mother's house.

Mark Kelly: Gun control bills need better background checks Posted: 31 Mar 2013 09:35 AM PDT Mark Kelly, former astronaut and husband of former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, told "Fox News Sunday" that the current gun control legislation being discussed in the U.S. Senate needs to include a background check that carries better mental health screening. Kelly argued that a recent poll showing 90 percent of Americans support a universal background [...]

Mayor: Deaths of Texas DA, wife 'not a random act' Posted: 31 Mar 2013 09:20 AM PDT KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — Two months after one of his assistant prosecutors was gunned down, a north Texas district attorney and his wife were found killed in their home, authorities said.

Rivals prepare for legal battle over abortion bans Posted: 31 Mar 2013 09:04 AM PDT Rival legal teams, well-financed and highly motivated, are girding for court battles over the coming months on laws enacted in Arkansas and North Dakota that would impose the nation's toughest bans on abortion.

Study shows Shakespeare as ruthless businessman Posted: 31 Mar 2013 08:34 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — New research depicts William Shakespeare as a grain hoarder, moneylender and tax dodger who became a wealthy businessman during a time of famine.

Exxon continues cleanup of Arkansas oil pipeline spill Posted: 31 Mar 2013 08:18 AM PDT (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil on Sunday continued cleanup of a pipeline oil spill in Arkansas that loosed thousands of barrels of heavy Canadian crude and forced the evacuation of 22 homes. Exxon's Pegagus pipeline, ...

Did you hear something? Mice can cough, study finds Posted: 31 Mar 2013 07:32 AM PDT It may be as quiet as, well, a mouse, but mice apparently can cough, new research finds. The findings suggest the rodents could be used in research to fight coughing in humans.

NKorea calls nukes country's 'life' at big meeting Posted: 31 Mar 2013 07:17 AM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A top North Korean decision-making body issued a pointed warning Sunday, saying that nuclear weapons are "the nation's life" and will not be traded even for "billions of dollars."

Pope makes Easter plea for Mideast peace Posted: 31 Mar 2013 07:01 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis delivered a plea for peace in his first Easter Sunday message to the world, decrying seemingly endless conflicts in the Middle East and on the Korean peninsula after celebrating Mass along with more than 250,000 people in flower-bedecked St. Peter's Square.

5 young siblings die in house fire in France Posted: 31 Mar 2013 06:15 AM PDT Authorities say five young siblings have died after a fire erupted in a home in northern France.

Fighting erupts after car bombing in Mali Posted: 31 Mar 2013 05:45 AM PDT BAMAKO (Reuters) - Malian soldiers backed by French fighter jets battled Islamist rebels in Timbuktu on Sunday after insurgents used a car bomb as cover to infiltrate the northern desert town overnight, sources said. The French-led offensive in Mali has pushed a mix of Islamists out of the northern towns and the remote mountain bases they had occupied but the militants have hit back with several suicide attacks. ...

Churches slam British government's welfare reforms Posted: 31 Mar 2013 05:30 AM PDT Government welfare reforms that include a contentious cut dubbed the "bedroom tax" will cause upheaval for some of Britain's most vulnerable people, religious leaders and anti-poverty activists claim.

Uneasy calm in Kenya after court ruling on vote Posted: 31 Mar 2013 05:00 AM PDT Kenyan police deployed forces Sunday in the capital and in the lakeside city of Kisumu to contain the continuing threat of violence after two people were killed in riots Saturday, officials said ...

Afghans warned: the taxman is coming after you Posted: 31 Mar 2013 04:15 AM PDT One of Afghanistan's most surprising success stories lies tucked away on a potholed street notorious for suicide bombings and lined with rusting construction equipment ...

Pope appeals for peace in Easter message Posted: 31 Mar 2013 03:59 AM PDT Pope Francis used his first Easter Sunday address to call for peace in the world and appealed for a diplomatic solution to the crisis on the Korean peninsula ...

2 in China first known deaths from H7N9 bird flu Posted: 31 Mar 2013 03:44 AM PDT Two Shanghai men have died from a lesser-known type of bird flu in the first known human deaths from the strain ...

Egypt's 'Jon Stewart' appears before prosecutors Posted: 31 Mar 2013 03:29 AM PDT A popular television satirist known as Egypt's Jon Stewart has appeared before prosecutors after an arrest warrant was issued against him for allegedly insulting Islam and the country's leader.

Pope leads Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square Posted: 31 Mar 2013 02:14 AM PDT Pope Francis is celebrating his first Easter Sunday Mass as pontiff in St. Peter's Square, which is packed by joyous pilgrims, tourists and Romans.

At least 12 killed in Mexican bus crash Posted: 30 Mar 2013 11:42 PM PDT At least 12 people died when a bus and a car collided in a mountainous part of the western Mexican state of Veracruz on Saturday evening, local emergency services said.

Exxon pipeline leaks thousands of barrels of Canadian oil in Arkansas Posted: 30 Mar 2013 11:11 PM PDT Exxon Mobil was working to clean up thousands of barrels of oil in Mayflower, Arkansas, after a pipeline carrying heavy Canadian crude ruptured ...

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