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Documents: Hernandez told pal he fired fatal shots

A man linked to the murder case against former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez told police Hernandez admitted firing the fatal shots, and a vehicle wanted in a double killing in Boston a year before had been rented in Hernandez’s name, according to documents filed Tuesday in Florida that provide the most damning evidence yet against the star athlete.

 
NTSB: Flight attendants ejected during crash

Two flight attendants in the back of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 survived despite being thrown onto the runway when the plane slammed into a seawall and lost its tail during a crash landing at San Francisco’s airport, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.

 
‘Bless my Hotshot crew’: Survivor speaks at vigil

On a day filled with speeches from dignitaries including the vice president, the words of the lone survivor of a fire crew overrun by flames resonated deepest in an arena packed with firefighters from around the nation.

 
Criminal probe in Quebec oil train derailment

Canadian authorities said Tuesday they have opened a criminal investigation into the fiery wreck of a runaway oil train in this small town as the death toll climbed to 15, with dozens more bodies feared buried in the burned-out ruins.

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Expert on gunshot wounds says evidence jibes with Zimmerman’s story

The trajectory of the bullet and gunpowder on Trayvon Martin’s body support George Zimmerman’s account that the teen was on top of him when the defendant shot and killed Martin, an expert on gunshot wounds testified Tuesday.

 
Women in Ohio kidnap case thank public for support

Three women held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade issued a YouTube video Monday night in which they thanked the public for the encouragement and financial support that is allowing them to restart their lives.

 
Dodgers’ Puig might make All-Star game fun again

There’s little special about MLB’s All-Star game anymore, as evidenced by the fact it has lost half its television audience in the last 20 years, but Los Angeles Dodgers rookie Yasiel Puig could make the mid-summer classic fun and interesting.

 
Bynes appears in NYC court in suspected bong toss

Amanda Bynes wore a long aqua wig, false eyelashes and black sweatpants and a tank top for a brief court appearance Tuesday on allegations that she chucked a marijuana bong out the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment.

 
Confusion on Snowden acceptance of Venezuela offer

The net of rumors and uncertainties over NSA leaker Edward Snowden deepened Tuesday when a prominent Russian lawmaker tweeted that Snowden had accepted Venezuela’s offer of political asylum, then deleted the posting a few minutes later.

 
Dad says he didn’t deny it was Trayvon’s voice

Trayvon Martin’s father testified Monday that he never denied it was his son’s voice screaming for help on a 911 call, contradicting police officers’ earlier testimony at George Zimmerman’s second-degree murder trial.

 
40 still missing in deadly Canada oil train crash

Hazardous conditions slowed firefighters’ attempts Monday afternoon to search for some 40 people still missing after a runaway oil tanker train exploded over the weekend in a Quebec town, killing at least five people and incinerating at least 30 buildings, officials said.

 
Randy Travis in critical at a Texas hospital

Country music star Randy Travis was in critical condition Monday in a Texas hospital, a day after he was hospitalized with viral cardiomyopathy.

 
NTSB: Plane parts found in San Francisco Bay

The Asiana jet that crashed at San Francisco International Airport left lower sections of its tail on a rocky seawall and in the bay, then scattered debris several hundred feet down the runway, the NTSB reported Monday in describing the plane’s deadly path.

 
Clashes by Egypt army, protesters kill at least 54

Egyptian soldiers and police clashed with Islamists protesting the military’s ouster of the president in bloodshed that left at least 51 protesters and three members of the security forces dead, officials and witnesses said.