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AP PHOTOS: Ga. officer patrols homeless camps

Posted: 02 May 2014 12:28 PM PDT

In this Monday, Dec. 9, 2013 photo, Savannah Metro Police Department Homeless Liaison Officer Tom Gentner, right, gathers contact information from a young couple who are living in homeless Camp 8 South under the ramps of the Truman Parkway in Savannah, Ga. Since September 2013 the Savannah police department gave Gentner the task of keeping track of over three hundred homeless people living near the historic downtown area. The couple later found temporary housing with the help of Gentner. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Officer Tom Gentner works a police beat few Savannah residents ever see, patrolling 20 rustic camps populated by hundreds of homeless people tucked away in the woods and under highway overpasses.

Alaska troopers killed had been on TV police show

Posted: 02 May 2014 09:52 AM PDT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The National Geographic Channel says two Alaska State Troopers who were shot and killed in a remote village had been featured on a show about patrolling the state's wild terrain, but they were not filming at the time of their deaths.

Obama, Merkel display unity against Russia

Posted: 02 May 2014 09:21 AM PDT

President Barack Obama meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 2, 2014. Obama and Merkel are mounting a display of trans-Atlantic unity against an assertive Russia, even as sanctions imposed by Western allies seem to be doing little to change Russian President Vladimir Putin's reasoning on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel mounted a display of trans-Atlantic unity Friday against an assertive Russia, even as sanctions imposed by Western allies seemed to be doing little to change Vladimir Putin's behavior toward Ukraine.

Ukraine: 'Many' insurgents killed in Slovyansk

Posted: 02 May 2014 09:21 AM PDT

In this image taken from Rossia 24 television channel TV, an injured Ukrainian military helicopter pilot is assisted by pro-Russian activists after he was shot down in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Friday May 2, 2014. Pro-Russia forces shot down two Ukrainian helicopters Friday as Ukraine launched its first major offensive against an insurgency that has seized government buildings in the east. The Kremlin said Kiev's move against the insurgents SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Pro-Russia forces shot down two Ukrainian helicopters Friday and Ukraine reported "many" rebels dead and wounded as the interim government in Kiev launched its first major offensive against an insurgency that has seized government buildings across the east.

Afghan official says 2,000 missing after landslide

Posted: 02 May 2014 08:18 AM PDT

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A landslide triggered by heavy rains buried a village Friday in northeastern Afghanistan, leaving as many as 2,000 people missing, a top official said.

Hundreds march in Seattle; police make arrests

Posted: 02 May 2014 08:16 AM PDT

Hundreds march in Seattle; police make arrestsHundreds of peaceful demonstrators marched in Seattle on May Day for immigrant rights and a minimum wage increase, but a smaller group of sometimes-masked protesters kept police busy as the sun went down. ...

Afghan official says 250 missing after landslide

Posted: 02 May 2014 08:16 AM PDT

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A police chief says 250 people are missing after a landslide buried a village in northeastern Afghanistan.

Sinn Fein demands Adams go free in Belfast killing

Posted: 02 May 2014 08:16 AM PDT

CORRECTS SPELLING FROM MCCONCILLE TO MCCONVILLE FILE - In this Thursday Jan. 12, 2012 file photo, Helen McKendry holds a family photo with her mother Jean McConville, at home in Killyleagh, Northern Ireland. Police in Northern Ireland arrested Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, over his alleged involvement in the Irish Republican Army's 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of McConville. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, file)BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — The senior Sinn Fein politician in Northern Ireland's unity government has demanded the immediate release of his party leader, Gerry Adams, as police investigate the IRA's 1972 killing of a Belfast mother of 10.

US gains 288k jobs; jobless rate falls to 6.3 pct.

Posted: 02 May 2014 05:53 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. unemployment rate plunged in April to its lowest level since September 2008 as employers added 288,000 jobs, the most in two years.

Ukraine strikes at east; 2 helicopters shot down

Posted: 02 May 2014 05:53 AM PDT

A Pro-Russian gunman aims his weapon behind barricades in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, May 2, 2014. Ukraine launched what appeared to be its first major assault against pro-Russian forces who have seized government buildings in the country's east, with fighting breaking out Friday in a city that has become the focus of the insurgency. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Two Ukrainian helicopters were shot down Friday as Ukraine launched its first major offensive against the pro-Russia forces that have seized government buildings in the east. The Kremlin said Kiev's move against the insurgents "destroyed" hopes for peace in the region.

Peace talks tentatively set for South Sudan

Posted: 02 May 2014 05:53 AM PDT

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, right, chats with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry as he greets Kerry at the President's Office in Juba, South Sudan, Friday, May 2, 2014. Kerry is urging South Sudan's warring government and rebel leaders to uphold a monthslong promise to embrace a cease-fire or risk the specter of genocide through continued ethnic killings. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan's president agreed Friday to meet with his rival as soon as next week to jumpstart peace talks that have been stalled for months and, potentially, lay groundwork for a new government to bring the world's newest nation out of bloodshed.

Northern Ireland waits for verdict in Adams arrest

Posted: 02 May 2014 04:03 AM PDT

CORRECTS SPELLING FROM MCCONCILLE TO MCCONVILLE FILE - In this Thursday Jan. 12, 2012 file photo, Helen McKendry holds a family photo with her mother Jean McConville, at home in Killyleagh, Northern Ireland. Police in Northern Ireland arrested Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, over his alleged involvement in the Irish Republican Army's 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of McConville. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, file)BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Northern Ireland is waiting. Will the country's most famous — and infamous — politician be charged over a decades-old slaying of a Belfast mother of 10?

3 killed in Ukraine offensive near Slovyansk

Posted: 02 May 2014 04:03 AM PDT

A Pro-Russian gunman aims his weapon behind barricades in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, May 2, 2014. Ukraine launched what appeared to be its first major assault against pro-Russian forces who have seized government buildings in the country's east, with fighting breaking out Friday in a city that has become the focus of the insurgency. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine launched what appeared to be its first major assault against pro-Russian forces who have seized government buildings in the country's east, with fighting breaking out in the early hours on Friday around a city that has become the focus of the insurgency. Three deaths were reported in early fighting.

Today's advice to graduates: No selfies

Posted: 02 May 2014 03:30 AM PDT

In this April 29, 2014 photo, University of South Florida graduating seniors Kyra Ciotti, 22, of Tampa, Fla., left, and Rita Sibaja, 24, of Winter Haven, Fla., look at photos that Rita took of Kyra in her cap and gown Tuesday, April 29, 2014, in Tampa, Fla. The university has banned all self portraits, also known as TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Toss your cap. Turn your tassel. Just don't snap that selfie.

Ukraine forces seek to retake Slovyansk, 3 killed

Posted: 02 May 2014 02:10 AM PDT

Anti-government demonstrators storm the regional police station in Krasnoarmiisk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, May 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Ukraine should withdraw its military units from the eastern and southern regions of the country, where anti-government insurgents are seizing buildings, but hours later, Ukraine's acting president ordered the military draft be renewed as the unrest intensifies. (AP Photo)SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine launched what appeared to be its first major assault against pro-Russian forces who have seized government buildings in the country's east, with fighting breaking out Friday in a city that has become the focus of the insurgency. Three deaths were reported in early fighting.

3 killed in fighting in Ukraine's east

Posted: 02 May 2014 01:39 AM PDT

Anti-government demonstrators storm the regional police station in Krasnoarmiisk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, May 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Ukraine should withdraw its military units from the eastern and southern regions of the country, where anti-government insurgents are seizing buildings, but hours later, Ukraine's acting president ordered the military draft be renewed as the unrest intensifies. (AP Photo)SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine launched what appeared to be its first major assault against pro-Russian forces who have seized government buildings in the country's east, with fighting breaking out Friday in a city that has become the focus of the insurgency.

In South Sudan, Kerry calls for end to violence

Posted: 02 May 2014 01:22 AM PDT

FILE - This April 29, 2014 file photo shows Secretary of State John Kerry speaking at the State Department in Washington. Stopping short of describing deadly fighting in South Sudan as genocide, Kerry on Thursday blasted the new nation's ethnic and political leaders as creating the same kind of violence their people sought to escape when they voted three years ago to break away from Sudan. (AP Photo)JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — In a stern warning, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is urging South Sudan's warring government and rebel leaders to uphold a monthslong promise to embrace a cease-fire or risk the specter of genocide through continued ethnic killings.

Lack of health care deadly for Myanmar's Rohingya

Posted: 02 May 2014 01:18 AM PDT

In this May 15, 2013 photo, displaced Rohingya people take shelter in a building adjoining a mosque, outskirts of Sittwe, western Rakhine State, Myanmar. Many of those displaced by recent violence live under apartheid-like conditions in tattered canvas tents, and long bamboo houses shared by dozens of families.(AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — When the kicking stopped, Zura Begum suspected something was wrong with the twins she was supposed to deliver that month. When the pain started shooting through her body, all doubt was erased.

Police use new tool to source crowds for evidence

Posted: 02 May 2014 01:18 AM PDT

This photo taken Thursday, April 24, 2014 in Los Angles, shows a tablet computer displaying a web site for LEEDIR or the Large Emergency Event Digital Information Repository that aims to make use of a document-everything culture evident on Instagram, Facebook and other social media to benefit law enforcement nationwide. In the days after the Boston Marathon bombings, authorities were overwhelmed with video and pictures after calling on a public eager to help provide investigators with potential evidence. Los Angeles sheriff's Cmdr. Scott Edson approached two companies with a novel idea, a cloud-based repository for crowd-sourced videos and photos that could be flipped on in an emergency. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities are employing a new crowdsourcing tool to help with a Southern California investigation into an annual party gone awry last month that left dozens of people injured including several police officers.

Videos shows teens' last moments on sinking ferry

Posted: 02 May 2014 01:18 AM PDT

In this April 16, 2014 photo taken from the mobile phone of deceased South Korean high school student Park Su-hyeon and released by his father Park Jong-dae, students are shown inside the sinking ferry Sewol on waters near Jindo, South Korea. Soon after the ferry begins to tilt, nervous laughter can be heard from the high school students huddled below deck. In video clips from the cellphone of Park Su-hyeon, a victim of the disaster that has shaken South Korea, the teenagers talk of taking selfies, wonder if they'll make the news and discuss posting about the excitement later on Facebook. (AP Photo/Park Su-hyeon courtesy of the Park Family)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Soon after the ferry began to tilt, high school students can be seen huddled below deck in a video, joking about the Titanic and taking selfies even as fear slowly built. Newly released video reveals a frightening scene half an hour later, as the ship listed so severely that students, one of them weeping, were forced to sit on a wall instead of the floor.

55 colleges face federal sex assault investigation

Posted: 01 May 2014 10:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, April 26, 2008, file photo, University of Michigan graduates celebrate after their spring commencement ceremony, in Ann Arbor, Mich. The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is one of 55 colleges and universities facing federal investigation for their handling of sexual abuse allegations. The school says the probe involves the school's handling of a reported 2009 violation of its sexual misconduct policy by then-football placekicker Brendan Gibbons, who was expelled in December. (AP Photo/Tony Ding, File)DETROIT (AP) — Some of the 55 colleges and universities facing federal investigation for their handling of sexual abuse allegations say they're cooperating with the U.S. Education Department, though they're offering scant details about what information the agency is seeking.

Attacks show bolder terror threat growing in China

Posted: 01 May 2014 10:57 PM PDT

In this photo provided by China's official Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, watches drills of troops of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in northwest China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Thursday, May 1, 2014. Chinese President Xi demanded BEIJING (AP) — Recent deadly attacks in China blamed on Islamic extremists are getting bolder and bloodier, targeting civilians rather than the authorities and further challenging Beijing's ability to stop them.

Gunfire, blasts in insurgent-held Ukraine city

Posted: 01 May 2014 10:09 PM PDT

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Gunfire and blasts have been heard around an eastern city in Ukraine that has become the focus of an armed pro-Russian insurgency.

Tears of joy: Pharrell 'happy' at awards show

Posted: 01 May 2014 09:22 PM PDT

Rihanna accepts the award for song of the year for Pharrell is still full of tears of joy — even after that viral interview with Oprah Winfrey.

General's opinion on Benghazi draws a rebuke

Posted: 01 May 2014 08:18 PM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 13, 2012 file photo shows a man walking in the rubble of the damaged U.S. consulate, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya. A retired general who was in the U.S. military's operation center during the 2012 attack on the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, said Thursday that Washington should have done more to respond during the battle. (AP photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired U.S. general came under sharp criticism from a Republican committee chairman on Thursday after testifying that the Obama administration reacted weakly to the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.
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