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MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) — The National Park Service isn't saying why but rescuers have suspended their search for a well-known, 70-year-old outdoors writer who's been missing on Mount Rainier since Wednesday. Karen Sykes was reportedly working on a story when she and her hiking partner encountered snow about 5,000 feet and became separated.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A California man attending a huge electronic music party in Las Vegas has died. The coroner's office says the 24-year-old San Leandro man died this morning at a hospital. Organizers estimate 134,000 people attended the opening night of the Electric Daisy Carnival on Friday. The event was criticized in Los Angeles in 2010 after a 15-year-old girl's fatal drug overdose.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Border Patrol official says the agency will fly nearly 300 Central American immigrants from South Texas to California on Monday for processing, as the government moves to ease the workload on agents at the nation's busiest corridor for illegal crossings. The official says the flights are expected to continue every three days. They will be mostly for families with children.
BAGHDAD (AP) — The Shiite-dominated government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is struggling to push back against Islamic extremists and allied Sunni militants who have seized large swaths of northern Iraq. But the insurgents are expanding their offensive in a volatile western province of Anbar. They've now captured three strategic towns and a border crossing with Syria.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Casey Kasem's family and close friends are celebrating him in the same way much of America has done — by listening to his unmistakable radio voice. Mourners at a small private memorial for Kasem on Saturday heard his old radio shows, including "American Top 40." The Los Angeles ceremony came a week after his death in Gig Harbor, Washington, at age 82.
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