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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A search will resume at first light off Jamaica for a plane that crashed after a 1,700-mile flight with the pilot slumped over and the windows frosted. Earlier, the plane's pilot had indicated there was a problem and twice asked to descend to a lower altitude before permission was granted. A Coast Guard cutter is expected to join the search for the prominent real estate developer from Rochester, New York and his wife.
RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — A commuter bus that slammed into a house after being hit by a stolen car missed an infant in the house by just a few feet. In all, 11 people were injured, none seriously, in the San Francisco Bay area incident. Police are searching for the stolen car's driver, but took a passenger into custody.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Authorities in Pakistan fear the tragedy may worsen as monsoon rains are forecast to continue in coming days. Since Thursday, the government says 110 people have been killed in flooding across the country. Ahmad Kamal, a spokesman for the National Disaster Management Authority, says officials believe roof collapses killed many of the victims.
BEIJING (AP) — China has made a rare admission of problems with a popular naval program, announcing the death of two test pilots during development of the country's first aircraft carrier fighter wing. The admission came in a report by the official Xinhua (shin-wah) News Agency, saying President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) had signed an order awarding honorary titles to all pilots in the first squadron to conduct take-off and landing tests aboard China's only aircraft carrier.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, who became a national political sensation by filibustering her state's tough new restrictions on abortion, discloses in her upcoming memoir that she had an abortion in the 1990s. She says the fetus had a severe brain abnormality. In "Forgetting to be Afraid," Davis also writes about ending an earlier ectopic pregnancy, in which an embryo implants outside the uterus.
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