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ORLAND, Calif. (AP) — Five high school students and three adult chaperones are among the ten people dead after yesterday's fiery crash involving a FedEx tractor-trailer and a bus carrying more than 40 students on a college visit. The drivers of the bus and the truck also died. A spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board says a team of highway crash experts left on a flight this morning, headed to the crash scene. The bus had been chartered by Humboldt State University to bring prospective students for a tour of the campus.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A judge in Orlando, Fla., is keeping in jail the man authorities say drove an SUV that crashed into another vehicle, sending it spinning into a daycare center where a girl was killed and 14 people were injured. A prosecutor told the judge that Robert Corchado is a flight risk. Police say Corchado crashed his Dodge Durango into a convertible, which in turn smashed into the KinderCare building on Wednesday. Authorities say Corchado fled the accident. He surrendered to authorities yesterday and was charged with leaving the scene.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate's top Republican says he hopes a change in leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services will bring what he calls "a candid conversation about Obamacare's shortcomings." Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs), who is resigning as HHS secretary, has been a lightning rod for critics of the new health care law. President Barack Obama is nominating his budget director, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, as her replacement.
NEW YORK (AP) — Weaker earnings at JPMorgan Chase are dragging bank stocks lower in early trading. Technology and biotech stocks also fell, a day after the worst rout for the Nasdaq composite index since 2011. That index is headed for its third weekly loss in a row. It's down 7 percent from its recent high reached March 5.
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities in Jackson. Wyoming, have downgraded their evacuation order for businesses threatened by a slipping hillside in the resort town, but some people are still being kept from returning to their homes. The downgrade means businesses are no longer under orders to evacuate, but are advised to do so. An independent geologist says a rapid landslide is unlikely, but the hillside needs to be shored up.
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