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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel (AHN'-geh-lah MEHR'-kuhl) and French President Francois Hollande (frahn-SWAH' oh-LAWND') will be in Moscow Friday for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. They met Thursday in Ukraine with President Petro Poroshenko in hopes of forging an international accord to address spiraling violence between government troops and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Friday's employment report is expected to show that employers added 230,000 jobs in January. That's according to a survey by the data firm FactSet. Nearly 3 million new jobs were created in 2014, as the unemployment rate dropped to 5.6 percent from 6.7 percent. The Labor Department said Thursday that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits remained near historic lows in a positive sign for job growth.
DALLAS (AP) — Hundreds of potential jurors are reporting to a courthouse in the small town of Stephenville (STEE'-ven-vil), Texas, for the trial of a man accused in the fatal shootings of famed Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and a friend of Kyle's. Former Marine Eddie Ray Routh (rowth) is charged with capital murder. The two were killed at a gun range near Stephenville, which is about 80 miles southwest of Fort Worth. Jury selection is set to begin Monday.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Lawyers for the NFL Players Association will be in federal court in Minneapolis on Friday in an attempt to get suspended Vikings running back Adrian Peterson back on the field. He was suspended under the league's divisive personal conduct policy for a child abuse case involving what Peterson contends was discipline of one of his young sons.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 9-year-old Indianapolis girl wounded by gunfire as she was heading off to her weekly Girl Scouts meeting to pick up cookies is racking up sales in an online cookie drive intended to send her troop on a trip. Sinai (suh-NYE') Miller was shot in the leg just outside her apartment as her mother was about to drop her off. A Girls Scout group in Indiana has launched an online campaign for her called "Cookies for Sinai."
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