http://www.detroitnews.com/graphics/detnews_printart.jpg http://www.detroitnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage http://www.detroitnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage en-us Copyright 2013, detroitnews.com Saxotech Online online@detroitnews.com (The Detroit News Online) online@detroitnews.com (The Detroit News Online) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 18 May 2013 05:00:00 EDT Sat, 18 May 2013 15:03:06 EDT 30 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180358/1020/rss09 ]]>With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's highest jackpot on Saturday night, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars — and that's after taxes. Sat, 18 May 2013 14:02:00 EDT Barbara Rodriguez Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180358/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180341/1020/rss09 ]]>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 of a film about break-ins at the homes of Hollywood celebrities, French officials said Friday. Sat, 18 May 2013 01:00:00 EDT Jamey Keaten Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180341/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180352/1020/rss09 ]]> Fairfield, Conn. — Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in a crash that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor. Sat, 18 May 2013 12:05:00 EDT Susan Haigh Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180352/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180350/1020/rss09 ]]>Newark, N.J — An airline official says a US Airways Express flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble. No injuries were reported. Sat, 18 May 2013 15:03:00 EDT Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180350/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180343/1020/rss09 ]]>Toronto — A video purportedly of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack has caused an uproar in Canada. Ford on Friday called the allegations "ridiculous." Sat, 18 May 2013 01:00:00 EDT Rob Gillies Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180343/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180342/1020/rss09 ]]> Washington — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify all 25,000 people involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an acknowledgement assaults have escalated beyond the Pentagon's control. Sat, 18 May 2013 01:00:00 EDT Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180342/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130518/METRO/305180333/1020/rss09 ]]>An anticipated record Powerball jackpot tonight of at least $600 million has lottery players in Metro Detroit and across the nation dreaming. Sat, 18 May 2013 13:50:00 EDT Candice Williams - The Detroit News http://detroitnews.com/article/20130518/METRO/305180333/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180323/1020/rss09 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. Sat, 18 May 2013 01:00:00 EDT Karin Laub Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180323/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180315/1020/rss09 In workplaces across the nation, Americans are inviting their colleagues to chip in $2 for a Powerball ticket and a shared daydream. Sat, 18 May 2013 01:00:00 EDT Barbara Rodriguez Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180315/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180360/1020/rss09 ]]>Seoul, South Korea — North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions. Sat, 18 May 2013 14:56:00 EDT Sam Kim Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180360/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180344/1020/rss09 ]]>Fairfield, Conn. — Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five with critical injuries, Gov. Dannel Malloy said. Sat, 18 May 2013 01:00:00 EDT http://detroitnews.com/article/20130518/NATION/305180344/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170377/1020/rss09 Cleveland — An official says a charity set up to help the three women freed from a decade of captivity in a Cleveland house has raised more than $480,000 so far. Fri, 17 May 2013 16:16:00 EDT Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170377/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170419/1020/rss09 ]]>Boise, Idaho — He was a Russian-speaking truck driver who came to Idaho in 2009 to join hundreds of other Uzbekistan refugees for whom the state has become a sanctuary from violence in their home country. Fri, 17 May 2013 16:41:00 EDT John Miller Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170419/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170383/1020/rss09 Louisville, Ky. — A Humvee carrying six Navy SEALs and two other sailors overturned during a training exercise at Fort Knox in Kentucky, killing one of the SEALs and injuring the others, military officials said Friday. Fri, 17 May 2013 16:16:00 EDT Brett Barrouquere Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170383/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170401/1020/rss09 New Albany, Ind. — Police say a mother found drowned in a southern Indiana creek along with her two children killed them before committing suicide. Fri, 17 May 2013 16:27:00 EDT Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170401/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170366/1020/rss09 ]]> Las Vegas — The lawyer who unsuccessfully defended O.J. Simpson against armed robbery charges testified Friday his client knew two companions had guns in a 2007 confrontation with memorabilia dealers. Fri, 17 May 2013 16:16:00 EDT Ken Ritter and Linda Deutsch Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170366/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170368/1020/rss09 Albuquerque, N.M. — A mother whose 4-year-old was being abducted chased the suspect down and crashed her vehicle into his car, triggering a manhunt and the arrest of the suspect, Albuquerque police said Thursday. Fri, 17 May 2013 07:07:00 EDT Russell Contreras Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170368/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170364/1020/rss09 ]]>New York — In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans and a T-shirt, lying on his side as he takes a nap. Fri, 17 May 2013 16:16:00 EDT Jake Pearson Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170364/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170393/1020/rss09 Baghdad — Twin explosions ripped through a crowd of Sunni worshippers in Baghdad on Friday, an attack which, combined with a second deadly bombing at a Sunni funeral just outside the city, deepened fears Iraq may be headed toward a new round of sectarian conflict. Fri, 17 May 2013 16:16:00 EDT Sameer N. Yacoub Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170393/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170378/1020/rss09 Greenwich, Conn. — An anteater has given birth at a Connecticut conservation center, prompting officials there to wonder how the mother conceived. Fri, 17 May 2013 09:00:00 EDT Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170378/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170412/1020/rss09 ]]>Milan — Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, according to the first public sworn testimony by the Moroccan woman at the center of the scandal. Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:00 EDT Colleen Barry Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170412/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170432/1020/rss09 Fairfield, Conn. — Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says a total of 60 people have been taken to hospitals with injuries from a collision between two New York-area commuter trains. Fri, 17 May 2013 23:42:00 EDT Susan Haigh Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170432/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170434/1020/rss09 New York — North Korea is still trying to import and export nuclear and ballistic missile-related items but financial and trade sanctions are slowing progress on development of their prohibited weapons, U.N. experts say in a new report. Fri, 17 May 2013 23:05:00 EDT Edith M. Lederer Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170434/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130517/SCIENCE/305170423/1020/rss09 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. Fri, 17 May 2013 17:15:00 EDT Deborah Netburn Los Angeles Times http://detroitnews.com/article/20130517/SCIENCE/305170423/1020/rss09 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170360/1020/rss09 ]]>Washington — President Barack Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid controversies hammering the White House, named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred Internal Revenue Service on Thursday and pressed Congress to approve new security money to prevent another Benghazi-style terrorist attack. Fri, 17 May 2013 07:14:00 EDT Julie Pace Associated Press http://detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170360/1020/rss09