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BARI, Italy (AP) — The Italian coast guard has raised the death toll in the Greek ferry fire to 10 after two more bodies were recovered. The coast guard announced the new death toll on its Twitter feed, and did not give details of where the bodies were found. Earlier, officials had said 427 people had been rescued. But the original manifest listed 478 passengers and crew -- suggesting that others might still be missing.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says Indonesia has asked the United States for help in locating a missing AirAsia jet. The U.S. is considering ways to help. The jet carrying 162 people is believed to have crashed into Indonesia's Java Sea. The State Department says no Americans were on board.
CASTLE HILLS, Texas (AP) — Officials still haven't accounted for dozens of residents of a senior-living facility near San Antonio, Texas, after a fire early yesterday that killed five residents. But they say they believe those people were able to find refuge with family, or that they had left for the holidays before the fire. More than a dozen people remain hospitalized.
BALTIMORE (AP) — A female Episcopal bishop in Maryland has been put on administrative leave, because she might be facing criminal charges in a hit-and-run crash that killed a bicyclist over the weekend in Baltimore. Heather Cook is the first female bishop at the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. A spokeswoman for the diocese says Cook was driving the car that hit the bicyclist Saturday afternoon. A bishop says Cook initially left the scene but returned later to "take responsibility for her actions."
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island Supreme Court has thrown out lawsuits by two Providence firefighters who said their constitutional rights were violated when they were ordered to drive a truck in a gay pride parade. The firefighters argued that they are Roman Catholics and therefore do not support or condone homosexuality. But the court says the men appeared in the 2001 parade as public servants, and that did not constitute a form of expression.
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