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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The big East Coast blizzard has made travel treacherous in many areas. That includes Kentucky, where drivers have been stranded on Interstate 75. In Virginia, state police say they responded to nearly 1,000 crashes. Thousands of flights have also been canceled because of the storm.
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian authorities say a man arrested outside a school in northern Saskatchewan killed two people at the school and two at another location. Two others were wounded. Royal Canadian Mounted Police are declining to release any details about the suspect. The father of one victim at the school says he was told by police that the man killed two people believed to be his brothers before coming to the school.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is trying to ease worries among Gulf Arab officials about apparently warming U.S.-Iranian ties. Kerry is also trying to seek consensus during meetings in Saudi Arabia today about which Syrian opposition groups should be represented at upcoming peace talks. U.S. officials say Washington backs Saudi Arabia in the feud with Iran but would like to see tensions eased.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A follower of cult leader Charles Manson will be staying in jail. Gov. Jerry Brown rejected parole for a third time Friday for Bruce Davis, convicted of the 1969 slayings of musician Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea. He was not involved in the more notorious killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others. Brown says the 73-year-old Davis remains a danger to public safety.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The state says it will appeal a Kansas Court of Appeals refusal to implement Kansas' first-in-the-nation ban on a common second-trimester abortion method. The court ruled in a split but groundbreaking decision that the conservative state's constitution protects abortion rights independently from the U.S. Constitution. The vote was 7-7 but tie votes uphold the ruling being appealed.
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