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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The death toll from Ecuador's powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake on Saturday is continuing to rise, with 246 people now confirmed dead. Vice President Jorge Glas says that more than 2,500 are injured. He also says he expects the number of casualties to go up. The quake, the strongest to hit Ecuador since 1979, was centered in a sparsely populated coastal area.
DENVER (AP) — A snowstorm parked over central Colorado that brought heavy snow to parts of the state and Wyoming and rain to Oklahoma and Texas is dumping more snow in the Rocky Mountains. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center is warning of possible danger from avalanches. Forecasters say the storm will linger today as the center moves slowly toward the Colorado-Wyoming border.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a 46-year-old man was arrested after a short standoff at a northeast Philadelphia home where three people were found dead, killed by shotgun blasts to the head. The Kensington area also was the scene of the shooting death of a 4-year-old girl, and police said at least six other people were wounded by shootings around the city overnight.
MIAMI (AP) — The South Florida zoo where a veteran keeper was attacked and killed by a Malayan tiger is reopening Monday as authorities from several local, state and federal agencies continue investigating what led to Friday's deadly attack. A Palm Beach Zoo spokeswoman says zoo officials are not blaming the 13-year-old male tiger for the attack that killed Stacey Konwiser.
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish media reports say two members of a Turkish nationalist youth group have been placed under house arrest after trying tried to put a sack over the head of a U.S. soldier at an air base in southern Turkey. The nationalist Turkish Youth Union posted footage on Twitter in which one of the men is heard blaming the U.S. soldier for "the terrorism in our country."
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