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PERTH, Australia (AP) — The hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner is continuing to focus on a search for weakening electronic signals despite mounting evidence the batteries in the plane's black boxes may have died. No new signals have been detected since Tuesday. But an Australian ship will continue the signal hunt Monday, along with a British warship and Australian air force P-3 Orion plane.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Family members say two of the three people killed in attacks at Jewish-affiliated facilities near Kansas City were a doctor and his 14-year-old grandson. They died in today's attack outside a Jewish community center in Overland Park. Authorities haven't released the name of a woman or girl killed minutes later at a nearby retirement community. A man in his 70s was arrested. Police won't say if they think the attack was motivated by anti-Semitism. The doctor's family is Christian.
RED BLUFF, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators say they haven't found any physical evidence that a FedEx truck was on fire before it slammed into a bus carrying high school students. But the National Transportation Safety Board is not ruling out a pre-impact fire. Five students, three adult chaperones and both drivers died in Thursday's collision in northern California.
VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — State officials in Mexico say at least 36 people are dead after a passenger bus slammed into a broken-down truck and burst into flames. Officials in the southeastern Mexican state of Veracruz say four people survived the crash. The state civil defense agency says the victims were business people from the region who were traveling to Mexico City.
DETROIT (AP) — A spokesman for the family of a former Marine who has been imprisoned in Iran since his 2011 arrest on spying charges says they are hopeful for his release. Chris Hayes says 31-year-old Amir Hekmati's family in Flint, Mich., is optimistic because of his new Iran-based lawyer and reduced charges in his case. The U.S. government denies he's a spy.
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