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ORLAND, Calif. (AP) — One rescue worker says a lot of the kids who survived a fiery bus crash on Interstate 5 near Orland, Calif., are "freaked out" and still can't "grasp what happened." A Fed Ex truck crossed a grassy freeway median Thursday and slammed into a bus carrying high school students who were on a visit to Humbolt State University's Arcata campus. Seven passengers on the bus were killed. Also dead are both drivers.
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Australia's prime minister says authorities are confident that several underwater signals detected in a remote patch of the Indian Ocean are coming from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane's black boxes. The plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders could help solve the mystery of why the Boeing 777 veered so far off course when it vanished on March 8 on a trip from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing with 239 people on board.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake has shaken Nicaragua, causing panicked people to run into the streets. Authorities say at least 23 people were injured by falling ceilings, beams and walls in the hardest hit town of Nagarote (nah-gah-ROH'-tay). About 100 homes are damaged in the town and the communities around it. Some Nicaraguans are without power and water and landslides are blocking two highways south of the capital Managua.
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (AP) — Five people are under arrest for the kidnapping of a North Carolina man, who an FBI team rescued from an Atlanta apartment. Authorities say Frank Arthur Janssen was abducted from his home last Saturday and held for five days as an act of retaliation involving the Bloods street gang. Janssen's daughter prosecutes violent crimes. The FBI says the kidnappers had threatened to torture and dismember Janssen if his wife went to police.
NEW YORK (AP) — The grunge rock group Nirvana is one of several of the latest inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The widow of the group's Kurt Cobain attended Thursday night's ceremony in New York. She hugged two surviving band members and said, "I just wish Kurt was here to do this." Some of the other performers inducted include Kiss, Hall & Oates, Peter Gabriel and Cat Stevens.
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