World: Stocks are down and the financial world is on edge today on news of the Cyprus bailout plan that would tax Cypriot savings accounts up to 10%. Residents of Cyprus drained cash machines over the weekend, sending a ripple of fear throughout the Euro Zone. Today is a bank holiday. Euro finance ministers demanded the $13 billion levy, but it still has to be approved by a vote in Cyprus.

• Turkish police say a homeless man has confessed to the killing of New York tourist Serai Sierra in January. Sierra, 33, married and the mother of two, had gone to Turkey to take photographs and have a brief affair with a man she had met online. The police say the homeless man was high on paint thinner and killed Sierra on impulse as she walked by.

National: The University of Central Florida in Orlando was closed this morning after police found a bag of explosive devices near the body of a man who had committed suicide in a dormitory. The school has 59,000 students.

Snow Alert: A late winter storm is passing through the Midwest and heading to New York and New England. As much as 12 to 18 inches of snow could fall in some parts of upper New England.

At The Box: The Indie film “Spring Breakers” grossed only $270,000, but did it opening in only three theaters. It could be a hit. “Oz the Great and Powerful” won the weekend again, now at about $145 million. Halle Berry and “The Call” finished second with $17.1 million and Steve Carrel’s “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone” was DOA at $10.1 million.

Cold Case: A bizarre murder case goes to trial in Los Angeles this week involving the 1985 disappearance of a San Marino couple. The defendant, a German immigrant named Christian Gerhartsreiter, was known as Christopher Chichester at the time. He was a tenant of John and Linda Sohus who went missing at the same time Chichester suddenly departed. He ended up living in Boston under the name Clark Rockefeller, claimed to be a member of the big money Rockefeller family and married a wealthy woman. It all came apart when the couple split and he was arrested for kidnapping his own daughter. Fingerprints revelealed his true identity. John Sohus’s bones were found in the back yard in San Marino; his wife was never found. Gerhartsreiter is charged with murder and is already serving for kidnapping.

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