MEXICO
23 bodies found in western Mexico
At least 23 bodies were found in two neighboring states in western Mexico where drug cartels, vigilantes and security forces have been fighting for much of the year, authorities said Saturday. A state prosecutor official in Michoacan said nine bodies were found on an abandoned property near the town of Buenavista Tomatlan along with a sign indicating they may have been members of the Knights Templar cartel. They had been shot. Authorities in Guerrero said Saturday that they found 14 bodies, eight in San Miguel Totolapan in the Tierra Caliente and six in a mass grave near the colonial tourist town of Taxco.
BAHRAIN
Bomb blast wounds 5 police officers
A bomb blast wounded at least five police officers Saturday in the al-Diar area on the island of Muharraq, northeast of the capital, Manama, authorities said. The Interior Ministry called the bomb attack “an act of terror.” Two of the police officers suffered serious injuries but were in stable condition. The island nation, which is home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, has been gripped by unrest since February 2011 when the country’s Shiites began an uprising.
UNITED KINGDOM
New info emerges in princess’s death
British police said Saturday they are examining newly received information relating to the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, and that officers are assessing the information’s “relevance and credibility.” Scotland Yard declined to provide details, saying only that the assessment will be carried out by officers from its specialist crime and operations unit. The force stressed that it was not reopening the investigation into the 1997 deaths of Diana and Fayed, who were killed in a car crash in Paris.
ALASKA
Hunter rescued after bear mauling
Crews staged a middle-of-the-night rescue to reach a hunter more than 36 hours after he was mauled by a brown bear in northern Alaska’s remote Brooks Range, the Alaska Air National Guard said. The man was part of a group on a guided hunting trip about 30 miles north of a village in the Gates of the Arctic National Park. Initial rescue efforts by local search teams and Alaska state troopers were turned back because of dense fog. A helicopter reached the victim before 3 a.m. Friday. The man, who has not been identified, was taken to Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks just before 5 a.m., then taken by ambulance to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. He was listed in stable condition Saturday.
ALABAMA
No control issues found in UPS crash
Federal investigators said Saturday they haven’t found any problems with the controls in a UPS cargo jet that crashed while landing in Alabama, killing the two pilots. National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said the cockpit controls in the A300 aircraft appeared to be working before the crash, and they matched the positions of the airplane’s flaps and rudders. Investigators previously said they did not see any problems with the plane’s engines, but that a cockpit warning went off seconds before the crash.
NEW YORK
Bus line shut down after incident
A New York City bus line that stranded 53 passengers at a Virginia truck stop for 24 hours has been closed by federal authorities. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it shut Staten Island-based All Nations Coach after discovering it was a reincarnation of another company shut down a year earlier for safety violations and for failing to pay fines. The agency says All Nations had the same owners, drivers, routes, managers and vehicles as the previously closed Tichy Express. An All Nations bus traveling from Charlotte, N.C., to New York broke down at midnight on I-95 last month. A replacement bus did not arrive until the following night.
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