Bus Crash: Ten people died yesterday 100 miles north of Sacramento in an accident involving a bus carrying Los Angeles high school students on a college tour. Police say a FedEx tractor trailer crossed the center divide and smashed into …

Jobs: New unemployment claims fell to a seven-year low last week, feeding optimism that the economy is coming out of a winter freeze and growing. Unemployment claims dropped by 32,000 to 300,000, much better than expected. Nyet: Armed men holding …

World: Ukrainian troops re-took a government building occupied by protesters in the eastern city of Kharkiv. About 70 people were arrested. White House Press Secy. Jay Carney said yesterday that there’s strong evidence that the demonstrators who took over government …

Mickey Rooney: The Depression Era star who said “Hey kids, let’s put on a show” and became the most famous teenager in America as the optimistic Andy Hardy, has died at age 93 in North Hollywood, Calif. From 1939 to …

Ukraine: The official time in Crimea jumped two hours ahead last night as Russia’s newest acquisition switched to Moscow time. A crowd of flag-waving Crimeans sang the Russian national anthem as the clock on the main railway station in Simferopol …

Ukraine: Russian President Vladimir Putin called President Obama on the phone yesterday to talk about a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis. It’s too soon to know whether Putin has blinked in the international standoff. Diplomats will meet to talk …

Day 21: The search area for Malaysia Flight 370 has been moved 700 miles northeast based on new data analysis suggesting that the plane was flying faster than thought and that it would have run out of fuel sooner. Search …

Debris: Thailand reports that one of its satellites spotted 300 floating objects in the Indian Ocean not far from where other satellites took pictures of  what could be debris from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. Searchers are fighting bad weather and …

Debris: Malaysia’s defense minister says new satellite images show 122 objects floating in the Indian Ocean that might come from the missing Flight 370. The objects, some of them 75 feet long, are scattered over an area of 154 square …

 Getting Close: Malaysia’s prime minister says an analysis of data shows there’s no longer doubt that the missing Flight 370 crashed in the Southern Indian Ocean. “This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites,” said Prime Minister …