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Dolphin trainer found dead amidst viral video investigation

Dolphin trainer Jose Luis Barbero, who was expected to become vice president of the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, was found dead inside his vehicle at Spanish airport parking lot, a source with the Spanish National Police told CNN on Saturday. The source said the case is being treated as a suicide.

White House lockdown caused by burning food cart

The New York Times said that at around the same time as the fire, a bomb-sniffing dog had detected something on a nearby vehicle, although the two incidents did not appear related. The vehicle was being checked.

Britain should recruit more mothers as spies: report

The Intelligence and Security Committee, which oversees the work of Britain’s three spy agencies, said it was crucial there was more diversity if the security services were to be able to address the threats facing the country.

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2 Ferguson city employees resign, 1 fired over racist emails

Racist emails — like one that depicted President Obama as a chimpanzee — resulted in three Ferguson, Missouri, city employees resigning or being fired, the city spokesman said Friday.

 
Boston Marathon bombing suspects may have had help making the bombs

It was a sophisticated attack with sophisticated devices. Authorities quickly identified the Boston bombing suspects, but almost immediately after Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed during the manhunt for the perpetrators and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured, investigators privately questioned if more people were involved.

 
Woman killed, 43 students hospitalized after Wash. school bus crash

A truck driver who may have been fatigued veered into oncoming traffic on a rural Washington state highway on Thursday, killing a woman driving a car and crashing into a school bus loaded with children, a state trooper said.

 
Mistrial declared, Jodi Arias escapes death penalty

A jury in Arizona failed to reach a verdict on Thursday in the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias, sparing the former waitress from the death penalty for murdering her ex-boyfriend in 2008.

 
Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 sparks conspiracy theories

A year on from the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, an extraordinary amount of key data remains unknown – fueling conspiracy theories and heated online debate about one of aviation’s biggest mysteries.

 
Officials warn US youth about connections to ISIS

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have warned law enforcement agencies across the country about American youths wanting to join Islamic State militants fighting in the Middle East, officials said on Thursday.

 
Family of Michael Brown to file lawsuit against Ferguson, Darren Wilson

Michael Brown’s parents will file a wrongful death civil lawsuit against Ferguson, Missouri and the white police officer who shot dead the unarmed 18-year-old black man last August in the St. Louis suburb, a family attorney said on Thursday.

North Korea detains Canadian pastor

North Korea has detained the head pastor of one of Canada’s largest congregations, who went missing during a regular humanitarian mission last month, a church spokeswoman said Thursday.

 
Snow is burying the East Coast — PHOTOS

A treacherous winter storm reaching from Texas to New England closed schools, canceled more than 4,000 flights and stranded hundreds of drivers overnight in Kentucky, where as much as 23 inches of snow fell. And a Delta Air Lines plane arriving in heavy snow at New York’s LaGuardia Airport from Atlanta slid off the runway.