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PARIS (AP) — French investigators say the co-pilot on the Germanwings plane that crashed last week in the French Alps repeatedly accelerated the plane as he used the automatic pilot to descend and smash into the mountains. Investigators have begun studying the black box data recorder found at the crash site yesterday. Based on recordings from the voice recorder, investigators say co-pilot Andreas Lubitz (an-DRAY'-us LOO'-bihtz) locked the pilot out of the cockpit and intentionally crashed the plane, killing himself and the other 149 people aboard.
GARISSA, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya are at the site of yesterday's militant attack on students at a university near the border with Somalia. They're taking fingerprints from the bodies of the four assailants killed and of the students and security officials who died. The attack at Garissa University College by al-Shabab militants left 147 people dead. Survivors say non-Muslims were singled out and slaughtered.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A man who spent 30 years on Alabama's death row will go free today after a decades' long fight to prove his innocence. Ray Hinton, who's now 54, was convicted of the 1985 murders of two Birmingham fast food restaurant managers. Prosecutors say modern forensic methods failed to show that the fatal bullets came from Hinton's revolver, and the bullets were the only evidence linking Hinton to the killings.
SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines (AP) — Devotees in the Philippines have carried out the annual Good Friday tradition of nailing themselves to a wooden cross to mimic the suffering of Jesus Christ. The hands and feet of a half-dozen men were rubbed with alcohol before locals dressed as Roman soldiers hammered sterilized nails into their flesh. Church leaders have spoken against the annual practice, but it continues to draw big crowds.
CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine (AP) — A ski resort in Maine has shut down a second chairlift less than two weeks after a malfunction on another lift injured seven skiers. Sugarloaf ski area says it's taken the Timberline lift out of service as a precaution after a maintenance crew found the drive shaft had an abnormal level of wear and tear. Seven skiers were injured March 21 when the King Pine chairlift malfunctioned. Investigators say the accident was caused by a broken drive shaft in a gearbox.
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