Air Crash: The cockpit voice recorder from a German airliner was found yesterday amid the shattered wreckage on a charred French mountainside. Recovery teams flown in by helicopter found no signs of life. There had been 150 people on board.

The aircrew never sent a distress signal yesterday as the A320 jet plunged from 38,000 feet to where it crashed at 6,000 feet. Recovery of the bodies could take days.

At least 67 of the dead were German, including two infants and 16 high school students returning from Barcelona. Two passengers were American.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who was flown over the site, said, “The site is a picture of horror. The grief of the families and friends is immeasurable.”

Mac & Ketchup: Kraft Foods and HJ Heinz have agreed to merge to create the world’s fifth largest food and beverage company. The deal was engineered by billionaire investor Warren Buffet and the Brazilian investment giant 3G Capital. Kraft has been lagging in recent years and the involved parties say the merger can cut costs and improve profits.

Kraft makes a long list of processed foods including Jell-O, Kool-Aid, Lunchables, Oscar Mayer meats, and Velveeta.

In addition to its iconic Ketchup, Heinz makes such delectables as Bagel Bites and Delimex taquitoes. Yum.

Nation: The Newtown, Conn. home of Adam Lanza, the shooter in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre, has been leveled. All of the interior furnishings and possessions had previously been removed and burned. At the request of neighbors and townspeople, no trace of the home will be left, not even the foundation and driveway.

World: Italy’s highest court today was considering the case against former Seattle exchange student Amanda Knox, who’s been on the legal hook in the murder of her British roommate since 2007. Knox and her former Italian boyfriend have bounced around the Italian justice system with verdicts of guilty, then innocent, then guilty, then not.

If re-convicted Knox faces extradition from the US. She says she would never willingly return to Italy.

Small Screen: “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan has been admitted to a Washington DC hospital for a second time in recent weeks. Breitbart News reports that a source tells them Logan is still suffering after effects of a sexual assault by a mob of men while she was covering the Arab Spring in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2011.

Police Blotter: A 36-year-old Detroit mother has been arrested after authorities found two of her children dead in her freezer. The children were a boy, 11, and a girl, 14. There was no word on how they died, or how long ago, but one neighbor told a reporter she hadn’t seen the kids in about a year. Two other children 11 and 17 were found at a neighbor’s house and taken into protective custody.

The White House Arrangement: Congress wants to kill Obamacare, President Obama is in a snit with the Prime Minister of Israel, and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz wants to get rid of the IRS, but the talk of Washington is what happened to the White House florist. The official flower arranger, Laura Dowling, who had been on the job since 2009, was abruptly escorted out of the building one day in February.

One theory is Michelle Obama didn’t like Dowling’s fussy floral arrangements and Dowling said she left to pursue other opportunities, as if she asked to be escorted to her new career. Anyone at the White House who knows the full truth is being mum.

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