A car going the wrong way on a divided highway collided head-on with a Greyhound bus early Saturday, killing one person and injuring 20, police said. The car, driven by a young woman, was headed southbound in a northbound lane on Interstate 85 at the time of the 3:05 a.m. crash, said police Lt. Mark Drinkard. The woman at the wheel of the car was killed, Drinkard said. Her name was not released. The bus, carrying 49 passengers and two drivers, had just left the Montgomery terminal and was headed for Columbus, Ga., and then on to Atlanta, Greyhound spokeswoman Anna Folmsbee said. Drinkard said 20 people were taken to two hospitals for treatment of minor injuries. Seventeen passengers were taken to Baptist Medical Center South, said hospital spokesman Tommy McKinnon. All were awake and alert, he said. ...
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 Body lies in driveway during 16-hour police standoff |
A 16-hour standoff between police and a man, who shot and killed his mother in the driveway of the house he was holing up in, ended early Saturday in the man's death, police said.James "Mike" Peters, 42, is believed to have been shot and killed by a member of the police tactical squad that stormed the house in Auburn, Maine, according to Stephen McCausland, a spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.Police said on Friday that James shot and killed his 70-year-old mother, Margaret Peters, whose body remained in the driveway throughout the standoff.Police said it would have been unsafe to have tried to remove the woman's body during the standoff, which lasted from about 10:30 a.m. Friday until about 3 a.m. Saturday.Police tried repeatedly to speak to Peters but he would not agree, McCausland said....
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| Landmark Nepalese cabinet delayed |
The expected swearing-in of a new cabinet in Nepal to include Maoists for the first time has been postponed until Sunday over a last-minute hitch. It is reported to have arisen over the nominee for the post of foreign minister put forward by the second-biggest established party. A deal was reached on Friday, with the Maoists getting five ministries. The remaining 16 are being shared between the seven main political parties in the interim coalition. The interim government and assembly have to organise constituent assembly elections to decide Nepal's future. King Gyanendra relinquished key powers amid street protests last year, prompting a Maoist truce that brought 10 years of civil strife to an end. At least 13,000 people died during the fighting...
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| Former Texas AG Morales Freed From Halfway House After Prison Sentence |
A former Texas attorney general has been released from a halfway house after getting about six months trimmed off his four-year federal prison sentence on account of good behavior, authorities said. Dan Morales, 50, pleaded guilty in 2003 to mail fraud and filing a false income tax return. The charges resulted from an investigation surrounding legal fees paid in the state's $17 billion settlement with the tobacco industry while he was the state's chief attorney. He admitted falsifying a contract so that a longtime friend and lawyer could personally profit from the settlement. Morales had contended that Houston lawyer Marc Murr was due $560 million from the settlement....
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| Artillery rocks Mogadishu |
Shelling rocked Mogadishu for a third day on Saturday, overwhelming hospitals with casualties as Ethiopian and Somali troops backed by helicopter gunships resumed attacks on Islamist rebels and clan militia.Scores of civilians have been killed in what the International Committee of the Red Cross says is the capital's worst fighting for more than 15 years. Ethiopia says its forces have killed more than 200 insurgents since the assault started. Terrified residents said volleys of artillery rounds began crashing down onto homes hours before dawn. "Whoever is doing this is not human. They have clearly never had a grandmother or children to think about," Salado Yebarow, who lives between the main stadium and the presidential palace, told Reuters by telephone. ...
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| Marines begin ban on garish tattoos |
Five tattooed skulls stretch from Marine Cpl. Jeremy Slaton's right elbow to his wrist, spelling out the word "Death." He planned to add a tattoo spelling "Life" on his left arm, but that's on hold because of a Marine policy taking effect Sunday.The Marines are banning any new, extra-large tattoos below the elbow or the knee, saying such body art is harmful to the Corps' spit-and-polish image.Slaton and other grunts are not pleased."I guess I'll get the other half later," grumbled the 24-year-old leatherneck from Eden Prairie, Minn. "It's kind of messed up."For many Marines, getting a tattoo is a rite of passage. They commonly get their forearms inscribed to remember fallen comrades, combat tours or loved ones, and often ask for exotic designs that incorporate the Marine motto, Semper Fi, or "Always faithful."...
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