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• Pope leads pep rally at Vatican, meets with Merkel May 18, 2013
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis toured St. Peter's Square to greet tens of thousands of people attending a rally of prayer, music and speeches Saturday, and he embraced the brother of a Pakistani politician who was assassinated in his country after calling for greater religious freedom for Christians there. Earlier in the day, the pope met with German […]
• Boston police, city to review bombings response May 18, 2013
  LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — Boston's police department and mayor's office will conduct twin reviews of the response to last month's bombing of the Boston Marathon, police commissioner Ed Davis said Saturday. Davis said the aim of the reviews is to learn from the experience and prepare for the future. "We are very anxious to get those reviews und […]
• NY pol accused of serial sex harassment to resign May 18, 2013
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York assemblyman accused of sexually harassing young female staffers for years says he will resign before he's expelled from the Legislature. Assemblyman Vito Lopez informed leaders on Saturday he will resign effective Monday morning. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had planned a rare expulsion proceeding against Lopez beginnin […]
• Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs May 18, 2013
  O'BRIEN, Ore. (AP) — Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out. In those days the forests were full, timber and work both plentiful. Read more on N […]
• Blasts rock Libya's capital and eastern city May 18, 2013
  TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported. A security official says one bombing targeted an abandoned church in Benghazi that had been previously damaged by fire.Read more on NewsOK.com […]
• Sales tax decline has OKC leaders' attention May 18, 2013
  William CrumAfter 18 months of growth, Oklahoma City’s sales tax receipts have dropped two months in a row — a fact that has the attention of city leaders.Read more on NewsOK.com […]
• Official: 'Amazing' no one died in train crash May 18, 2013
  FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday it's fortunate that no one was killed and that there weren't even more injuries. Seventy-two people were sent to the hospital Friday evening after the crash, whi […]
• Syria's Assad says he won't step down May 18, 2013
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down before elections are held, rejecting a demand by the country's opposition that any talks on ending the nation's civil war lead to his ouster. Assad's comments to the Argentine newspaper Clarin were his first about his possible role in any […]
• Ex-Pa. officer once hailed as hero faces charges May 18, 2013
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes. Authorities allege that former officer Richard DeCoatsworth left a party with two females early Thursday and took them to another location, where they a […]
• Silicon Valley-area hub becomes factory town May 18, 2013
  FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 each. Down the road in another plant, crews slice solar cells, place them under glass sheets and create panels that ship by the boxful to Europe. Read more o […]