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BAGHDAD (AP) — A witness says militants have hung their black banners at Iraq's largest oil refinery, though a top security official says the government still holds it. There has been a tense battle for control of the facility about 155 miles north of Baghdad. The Iraqi who drove past the refinery says militants are manning checkpoints around it and that a huge fire is raging in one of the tankers. In Baghdad, three people were killed in a Shiite neighborhood.
WESSINGTON SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) — A spokesman says everyone has been accounted for in a small town in central South Dakota where a tornado swirled through the center of Wessington Springs, destroying three businesses and damaging around a dozen houses. Officials say tornado alarms warned people in time for them to get to the city's emergency shelter beneath the courthouse.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawsuit over eagles is expected to take flight in federal court in California. The American Bird Conservancy says it will sue the Obama administration over a new federal rule that allows wind-energy companies to seek approval to kill or injure eagles for 30 years without prosecution. An AP investigation last year documented dozens of eagle deaths at wind farms.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The federal government says it's tightening its current fingerprint policy for migrant children detained at the border. People other than parents who step forward to care for the children will be fingerprinted amid concern by immigrant advocates that skipping the screening could put children at risk. Only parents and legal guardians will be exempt.
BERLIN (AP) — Alpine rescue crews say a German cave researcher is close to seeing the light of day for the first time in nearly two weeks after he suffered head injuries in an accident deep underground. Germany's mountain rescue service has been slowly bringing Johann Westhauser to the surface by hand through a narrow winding passage. A medical station is waiting at the mouth of the cave.
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