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WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) — The mother of a four-year-old girl who died when a car hit a Florida daycare center yesterday is pleading for a suspect in the crash to turn himself in. She says families have been "emotionally destroyed" by the crash, which also left 14 people injured. Police across Florida are looking for Robert Corchado, a man with a long criminal history. He's accused of causing the incident when his Dodge Durango hit a convertible, which then smashed into the KinderCare building.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — President Barack Obama is remembering Lyndon Johnson as a giant of a man whose efforts to pass the Civil Rights Act made real the promise of the nation's founders. That is -- Obama says -- that all men are created equal. Obama spoke at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, on the final day of ceremonies to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The landmark law ended racial discrimination in public places.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House Committee has voted to hold a former Internal Revenue Service official in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions at a pair of hearings. The official, Lois Lerner, previously headed the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. Last May, after providing an opening statement, she refused to answer questions at a House Oversight Committee hearing about IRS agents improperly singling out tea party applications for extra scrutiny. She again refused to answer questions at hearing in March.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Internet connection and a bunch of stolen identities are all it takes for crooks to collect billions of dollars in bogus federal tax refunds. And the scam is proving too pervasive to stop. The crime is attracting more attention as the April 15 tax-filing deadline approaches. Attorney General Eric Holder says the "scale, scope and execution of these fraud schemes" has increased. In the past year, the Justice Department has charged 880 people.
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say five people have been charged in the kidnapping of the father of a North Carolina prosecutor. Frank Janssen of Wake Forest was rescued from an Atlanta apartment late Wednesday. The FBI says his kidnapping was related to his daughter's prosecution of North Carolina prisoner Kelvin Melton, who is serving a life sentence for his 2012 conviction for being a habitual felon. He was also convicted of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.
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