Turkish president condemns trafficking proposal...Boston transit overhaul...Hinckley seeks to leave hospital

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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's president is condemning what he's says are suggestions to sink the vessels of human traffickers. European Union leaders are scheduled to hold an emergency summit in Brussels to discuss ways of stemming migrant trafficking after a boat carrying hundreds of people destined for Europe capsized off Libya over the weekend. Officials believe 800 may have been killed. Arresting ringleaders and destroying their boats has been proposed for discussion at the summit, but Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (REH'-jehp TY'-ihp UR'-doh-wahn) says the plans could lead to ships being sunk while carrying migrants.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Shiite rebels in Yemen are calling for a resumption of peace talks under the auspices of the United Nations. The statement follows another round of Saudi-led airstrikes targeting Houthi rebels in the southern port of Aden and central city of Taiz. Yemeni officials say there's ongoing ground fighting in the two cities between the rebels and supporters of the exiled president. Yesterday, Saudi Arabia declared an end to its monthlong air campaign.

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts' governor is proposing an overhaul of Boston's public transit system after pounding snowstorms this winter slowed the nation's oldest subway system to a crawl. Gov. Charlie Baker has filed a bill that would create a new Fiscal Management and Control Board to oversee operations and finances of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority through 2018.

BOSTON (AP) — A lawyer for Odin Lloyd's family plans to call Aaron Hernandez to testify in a wrongful death lawsuit. Speaking alongside Lloyd's mother, lawyer Doug Sheff promised that the case would take a different tone than Hernandez's criminal trial. That ended last week with Hernandez's conviction and life sentence for Lloyd's 2013 murder. Hernandez did not testify at his criminal trial.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for John Hinckley Jr. says President Ronald Reagan's would-be assassin is "clinically ready" to live full time outside a mental hospital. In federal court in Washington, lawyer Barry Levine argued that Hinckley has been in "full and stable remission" for more than two decades. Prosecutors say more restrictions and conditions are needed to keep Hinckley and others safe. Hinckley was 25 when a jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity in 1981. Now 60, Hinckley spends 17 days a month at the home of his 89-year-old mother in Williamsburg, Virginia.