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MONTABAUR, Germany (AP) — Investigators are searching the family home of Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz (LOO'-bihtz), who French authorities say deliberately crashed a plane into the French Alps, killing himself and 149 other people. The home about 40 miles northwest of Frankfurt belongs to Lubitz' parents, and investigators were seen carrying out blue bags, a big cardboard box and what looked like a large computer. Investigators have also searched Lubitz' apartment in Duesseldorf.
NEW YORK (AP) — Nineteen people are injured, four critically, after an apparent gas explosion leveled an apartment building in Manhattan's trendy East Village. Passers-by were hit by debris and flying glass. Bruce Finley, a visitor from San Antonio who was in a restaurant next door, says Thursday afternoon's explosion "just happened out of the blue." New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says a plumber had been doing work connected to a gas service upgrade inside the building.
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado woman accused of luring a pregnant woman to a basement and cutting the baby from her belly will not be charged with murder. But Boulder County prosecutors won't say what charges 34-year-old Catherine Olguin will face. Olguin is accused of luring 26-year-old Michelle Wilkins to her Longmont home March 18 with an ad on Craigslist offering baby clothes. Police say Wilkins was attacked when she got to the house. She survived the attack but her baby did not.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A former executive of a San Francisco-based bank that received federal bailout money has been convicted of fraud. A federal jury in Oakland found 66-year-old Ebrahim Shabudin guilty on Thursday of conspiring with others within the bank to falsify key bank records as part of a scheme to conceal millions of dollars in losses and falsely inflate the bank's financial statements. He faces up to 25 years in prison when he's sentenced.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea is urging North Korea to immediately release two of its citizens who are being detained in the country over alleged espionage. The North's state media say the two were detained last year for allegedly collecting confidential state information and attempting to spread "bourgeois lifestyle and culture" in the North at the order of South Korea's spy agency. South Korea's Unification Ministry denies the claims.
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