Quake search hindered by landslides...3 detained in French terror probe...2 dead, 5 missing after storm flips sailboats

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Landslides are hindering rescue teams trying to reach remote villages after the devastating earthquake in Nepal. A member of the aid group World Vision says rescuers will likely have to get in by helicopter. Authorities say more than 2,500 people are confirmed dead, nearly all of them in Nepal, but the number could rise when remote areas are reached.

PARIS (AP) — French authorities say three people have been detained in an investigation into an alleged plot to attack a church near Paris. Investigators are looking into possible links between the three and an Algerian computer science student who was arrested last week after apparently shooting himself by accident. Prosecutors say he was planning to attack a church south of Paris and is also suspected of killing a woman nearby.

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Alabama say two people have died and five others are missing after a powerful storm capsized several sailboats during a regatta. More than 100 sailboats were taking part in the Dauphin (DAH'-fin) Island regatta yesterday when the storm struck. The Alabama Department of Public Safety's Marine Patrol Division says one person was found dead yesterday and a second body was found this morning.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Former FBI director Louis (LOO'-ee) Freeh was near death after a car crash near his vacation home in Vermont last August, according to current FBI director James Comey (KOH'-mee) and Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy. They told the Burlington Free Press that Freeh would have died from a severed leg artery if rescue crews hadn't acted as quickly as they did to free him from the wreck. Freeh was airlifted to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and spent weeks there recovering.

MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Russia has sentenced one young woman to 15 days in jail and two others to 10 days for twerking next to a World War II memorial. That's after prosecutors launched a probe into a video showing a group of women doing the sexually provocative dance next to the memorial on the Black Sea. Five women were convicted of "hooliganism" but two were spared jail time for health reasons. The Kremlin has been using next month's 70th anniversary of the Allied victory in World War II for propaganda purposes.

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