Cabinet post contender
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is near the top of President Obama’s list of candidates to head the Health and Human Services Department, a senior administration official said. Former Sen. Tom Daschle withdrew his name amid an admission he had not paid all his taxes.
Faulty gun thwarts murder
Police in northeastern Pennsylvania say a faulty gun thwarted a man’s plan to kill his estranged wife and commit suicide Thursday. Investigators in Scranton say 48-year-old William Krause’s gun only clicked. His estranged wife got her husband to call one of their sons to come help.
Plane sinks in river
Four people at the rear of a plane that crashed in the muddy Amazon river managed to open an emergency door and swim to safety as the aircraft sank, dragging at least 24 others to their death in Brazil, authorities said Sunday.
Al Qaeda suspects released
Yemen released 170 men it had arrested on suspicion of having ties to Al Qaeda, security officials said Sunday, two weeks after the terror group announced that Yemen had become the base of its activities for the whole Arabian peninsula.
