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• Sheriff: New Orleans airport attacker had explosives
• Attacker in New Orleans airport had homemade bombs in bag
• Obama roots on Princeton women's basketball team including niece
• Brooklyn house fire kills seven from Orthodox Jewish family
• Obama: Stop 'playing politics' over Lynch
• Confronting past, Mississippi town erects Emmett Till museum
• N.Y. Fire Department: 7 children die in Brooklyn house fire
• U.S. veterans return to Iwo Jima for 70th anniversary
• FBI: Autopsy report days away in hanging of Mississippi man
• Wisconsin federal judge finds state abortion law unconstitutional
• Man shot at New Orleans international airport
• Shots fired at New Orleans international airport: CBS affiliate
• Guilty verdicts for 2 in Toronto-NYC train terror plot
• FBI probes whether hanging was suicide or homicide

Sheriff: New Orleans airport attacker had explosives Posted: 21 Mar 2015 01:21 PM PDT Authorities says the machete-wielding man who was shot at New Orleans' international airport after trying to attack security agents was carrying explosives at the time.

Attacker in New Orleans airport had homemade bombs in bag Posted: 21 Mar 2015 01:04 PM PDT (Reuters) - The man who attacked security agents at a New Orleans airport on Friday night had six homemade bombs, or molotov cocktails, in a bag, officials said at a news conference on Saturday. The man, 62-year-old Richard White, was shot three times by a law enforcement officer as he chased a Transportation Security Administration agent, sprayed other agents with wasp repellent and brandished a machete. (Reporting by Fiona Ortiz. Editing by Andre Grenon)

Obama roots on Princeton women's basketball team including niece Posted: 21 Mar 2015 12:15 PM PDT By Elvina Nawaguna COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, a hoops fanatic who relishes the annual March Madness college basketball tournaments, on Saturday cheered on the undefeated Princeton women's team that includes his niece Leslie Robinson as the school's fans chanted "four more years." Obama, an avid basketball player, attended Princeton's 80-70 NCAA Tournament victory over the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay at the XFINITY Center arena in the Washington suburb of College Park, Maryland. The president was joined by his daughter Malia, his brother-in-law Craig Robinson, a former Princeton basketball star, his mother-in-law Marian Robinson and U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, a former Harvard basketball star.

Brooklyn house fire kills seven from Orthodox Jewish family Posted: 21 Mar 2015 11:43 AM PDT By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - In one of New York City's deadliest fires in years, seven children from the same Orthodox Jewish family died early on Saturday when flames ripped through their Brooklyn home, officials said. The blaze, which erupted just before 12:30 a.m., appeared to have been started accidentally by a hot plate, which are used by many Orthodox families to warm food on the Sabbath, said Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro. "This is an unbelievable tragedy," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters after seeing the devastation at the site of the blaze.

Obama: Stop 'playing politics' over Lynch Posted: 21 Mar 2015 10:23 AM PDT President Barack Obama called on Republican leaders in Congress to give his nomination for U.S. attorney general, Loretta Lynch, a vote.

Confronting past, Mississippi town erects Emmett Till museum Posted: 21 Mar 2015 08:46 AM PDT By Bryn Stole SUMNER, Miss. (Reuters) - Six decades after the brutal slaying of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, the small Mississippi Delta town where two white men were acquitted of his murder is dedicating a museum to the event credited with helping spark the U.S. civil rights movement. The opening in Sumner on Saturday of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center is timed to coincide with the reopening across the town square of the refurbished Tallahatchie County Courthouse, where an all-white jury set Roy Bryant and J.W. Milan free after deliberating for one hour. Work on both projects in the struggling town of a few hundred people began after the Tallahatchie Board of Supervisors issued a formal apology over the Till affair in 2006. It also established the Emmett Till Memorial Commission to bring attention to a racially charged incident that had for decades gone mostly undiscussed locally, said commission co-chairman John Wilchie.

N.Y. Fire Department: 7 children die in Brooklyn house fire Posted: 21 Mar 2015 05:15 AM PDT The blaze, which tore through the home early Saturday, also left two people in critical condition, authorities said.

U.S. veterans return to Iwo Jima for 70th anniversary Posted: 21 Mar 2015 02:39 AM PDT IOTO, Japan (AP) — Dozens of aging U.S. veterans gathered on the tiny, barren island of Iwo Jima on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of one of the bloodiest and most iconic battles of World War II.

FBI: Autopsy report days away in hanging of Mississippi man Posted: 21 Mar 2015 02:24 AM PDT PORT GIBSON, Miss. (AP) — The body of a black man found hanging in a tree in Mississippi has been sent from a state crime lab to a funeral home, but the FBI said it will be days before autopsy results are complete. Until then, investigators are holding off on saying whether Otis Byrd was killed or took his own life, and they're urging people to be patient.

Wisconsin federal judge finds state abortion law unconstitutional Posted: 21 Mar 2015 12:04 AM PDT (Reuters) - A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled as unconstitutional on Friday a state law requiring any doctor performing an abortion to have privileges to admit patients to a nearby hospital. U.S. District Judge William Conley temporarily blocked the law in August 2013, which requires doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital located within 30 miles (50 km) of his or her practice, shortly after Republican Governor Scott Walker signed it into law. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and Affiliated Medical Services, the state's two abortion providers, challenged the measure in court, saying it could force abortion clinics in Appleton and Milwaukee to close. "The marginal benefit to women's health of requiring hospital admitting privileges, if any, is substantially outweighed by the burden this requirement will have on women's health outcomes due to restricted access to abortions in Wisconsin," Conley wrote.

Man shot at New Orleans international airport Posted: 20 Mar 2015 08:46 PM PDT A 63-year-old man was shot Friday at a security checkpoint in the New Orleans international airport after he cut a guard with a machete and sprayed two others with wasp spray.

Shots fired at New Orleans international airport: CBS affiliate Posted: 20 Mar 2015 06:55 PM PDT (Reuters) - Shots were fired inside the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Friday night, according to a CBS affiliate. Airport spokeswoman Michele Wilcut confirmed an incident occurred inside airport, according to WWL in New Orleans. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. (Reporting by Lisa Shumaker in Chicago; Editing by Ken Wills)

Guilty verdicts for 2 in Toronto-NYC train terror plot Posted: 20 Mar 2015 06:23 PM PDT TORONTO (AP) — Two men accused of plotting to attack a passenger train travelling from New York to Toronto were found guilty of several terror-related charges and could spend the rest of their lives in prison.

FBI probes whether hanging was suicide or homicide Posted: 20 Mar 2015 02:51 PM PDT PORT GIBSON, Miss. (AP) — A black man found hanging from a tree in Mississippi was Otis Byrd, a convicted killer whose family reported him missing more than two weeks ago, the FBI said Friday.

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