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A photo provided by New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas shows 19-year-old Akien Scott who is wanted in the Mother's Day shootings. Scott was arrested in the Little Woods section of eastern New Orleans, Wednesday night May 15, 2013 police department spokeswoman Remi Braden said. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)

Arrests in New Orleans parade shootings cheered

Friday, May 17, 2013

NEW ORLEANS — Days after bursts of gunfire brought a chaotic and bloody end to a Mother’s Day neighborhood parade in New Orleans, news of now seven arrests gave an organizer of the traditional event reason to celebrate again. “I’m just ecstatic,” Edward Buckner, president of the Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club, said Thursday. Two brothers were booked with 20 counts each of attempted second-degree murder in Sunday’s shooting spree in which 19 people were struck by bullets and one was injured while fleeing. Authorities said three people remain in critical condition. Akein Scott, 19, was captured Wednesday night. A $10 million … 0

Along the low-lying Delaware Bay shore, erosion and storm damage problems are striking. Three towns in Downe Township are, in effect, disappearing: Fortescue, Gandy's Beach and Money Island. Here, Bob Campbell, Mayor of Downe Township, stands by homes in Fortescue, New Jersey, March 12, 2012, that were destroyed by super storm Sandy. (Charles Fox/Philadelphia Inquirer/MCT)

Along N.J. bay, rising sea draws ever closer

Friday, May 17, 2013

PHILADELPHIA — The night Meghan Wren got stranded by floodwaters and had to sleep in her car, she knew it was time for a reckoning. She had been driving to her waterfront home along the Delaware Bay in South Jersey. As she crossed the wide marsh in the dark, the water rose quickly. … 0

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, center, speaks to the media during a tour of storm damaged areas in Granbury, Texas, on Friday May 17, 2013. On Wednesday, powerful storms produced 16 tornadoes in the area that left six people dead. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Max Faulkner) MAGS OUT; (FORT WORTH WEEKLY, 360 WEST); INTERNET OUT

Tornado-ravaged Texas town to start recovery

Friday, May 17, 2013

GRANBURY, Texas — Residents whose homes were torn apart or blown away by a North Texas deadly tornado can soon return to retrieve what belongings may be left and start cleaning up, authorities said Friday. In Granbury, the area hardest hit by Wednesday night’s exceptionally strong tornado, workers are trying to restore water … 0

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Kristin Gross of Northampton, left, forces out Madison Grande of East Longmeadow on a hit from Mary Edwards Friday in Northampton. JERREY ROBERTS Northampton softball suffers another tough loss
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U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson speaks to reporters on Friday, May 17, 2013 in front of the federal building in Boise, Idaho, following the initial arraignment hearing of Fazlidden Kurbanov. Kurbanov, an Uzbek national living in Idaho, was indicted on Thursday on terrorism-related charges. Speaking with help of an interpreter and his court-appointed defense attorney, Kurbanov, pleaded not guilty to three federal felony charges. (AP Photo/John Miller)

Idahoan charged in Uzbekistan plot

Friday, May 17, 2013

BOISE, Idaho — He was a Russian-speaking truck driver who came to Idaho nearly four years ago to join hundreds of other Uzbekistan refugees for whom the state has become a sanctuary from violence in their home country. … 0

CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME - In this undated photo downloaded from the Union County Prosecutor’s website, Caleb “Kai’ Lawrence McGillvary is shown. McGillvary, 24, is being sought by New Jersey authorities on a murder warrant in the beating death of a New Jersey lawyer he befriended in New York’s Times Square. The homeless hitchhiker had previously gained Internet and TV celebrity status by using a hatchet to intervene in an attack in California on a utility worker on Feb. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Union County Prosecutor’s Office)

Coffee run leads to hatchet hitchhiker arrest

Friday, May 17, 2013

ELIZABETH, N.J. — Two cups of coffee ended life on the run for an Internet sensation known as Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker. An employee at a Starbucks in Philadelphia is credited with recognizing 24-year-old Caleb “Kai” McGillvary, whose … 0

Massive asteroid to pass Earth

Friday, May 17, 2013

LOS ANGELES — It’s 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sticky black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth it would probably result in global extinction. Good thing it is just making a flyby. Asteroid 1998 QE2 … 0

Tensions cancel Arab festival

Friday, May 17, 2013

DEARBORN, Mich. — After growing religious tensions, the annual Arab International Festival has been canceled for the first time in its 18-year history, organizers said Friday. “We’re very sad that we had to postpone it,” Fay Baydoun, director of the American-Arab Chamber of Commerce, which organizes the festival. … 0

Iraq's national flag flies as followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr attend Friday prayers in the Sadr City neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 17, 2013. Elsewhere, a bomb killed dozens of people at a Sunni mosque in central Iraq, hitting worshippers as they were emerging from Friday prayers, security officials said. The attack in Baqouba comes after two days of attacks, many in Shiite districts, left tens of people dead. Attacks against Sunni mosques have also been on the rise recently, raising fears that the country is slipping into a new round of sectarian violence. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Bombs target Sunnis in Iraq

Friday, May 17, 2013

BAGHDAD — Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months. The major spike in sectarian bloodshed heightened fears the … 0

Reporters gather outside the Novotel hotel during the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 17, 2013. A French police official says a thief or thieves stole about $1 million worth in jewelry inside a safe in a Novotel hotel room, against the backdrop of the Riviera resort town’s film festival. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

$1 million in jewelry stolen near Cannes film fest

Friday, May 17, 2013

PARIS — Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewelry, in a brazen late-night burglary just hours after the screening … 0

This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows anti-Syrian regime protesters holding a placard with a caricature of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a demonstration in Kafr Nabil, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday, May 17, 2013. Rights activists have found torture devices and other evidence of abuse in government prisons in the first Syrian city to fall to the rebels, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)

Rights groups: Syria holds thousands incommunicado

Friday, May 17, 2013

BEIRUT — About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital of Damascus. They grabbed a 24-year-old university student and drove off. … 0

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Considering solar shingles; sequester kicks in

Friday, May 17, 2013

Dear EarthTalk: I’m getting my roof redone and have heard about solar shingles. Are they practical for the Northeast? — John Denson, Glastonbury, Conn. Solar shingles are photovoltaic cells designed to look like and integrate with conventional asphalt … 0

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, listens to President Barack Obama, next to Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, and Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mark Ferguson, during a meeting of service secretaries, service chiefs, and senior enlisted advisers to discuss sexual assault in the military in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

President Obama vows sustained effort on military sex abuse

Friday, May 17, 2013

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Thursday the nation’s military leaders told him they are “ashamed” of their failure to end sexual abuse in the armed services. Obama pledged to “leave no stone unturned” in the effort to … 1

Emergency personnel look through debris on near Granbury, Texas on Thursday, May 16, 2013. Ten tornadoes touched down in several small communities in Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless. Emergency responders were still searching for missing people Thursday afternoon. (AP Photo/Rex C. Curry)

Six killed in Texas tornadoes

Friday, May 17, 2013

GRANBURY, Texas — Habitat for Humanity spent years in a North Texas subdivision, helping build many of the 110 homes in the low-income area. But its work was largely undone during an outbreak of 13 tornadoes Wednesday night … 0

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