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Spring baseball game uncovered from 8 inches of snow

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 12:15 PM PDT

By Pat Graham, AP Sports WriterColorado Rockies owner Dick Monfort is among the grounds crew shoveling snow in the hope his team will squeeze in a doubleheader against the New York Mets on Tuesday.Nearly an hour before first pitch at 3:10 p.m. EDT, the crew had hauled off a majority of the eight inches of snow that covered the outfield grass. There were still mounds stacked up in front of the...

Life disrupted: Eerie scenes after Boston Marathon bombings

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 08:45 AM PDT

While there have been many moving photos of the bombings at the Boston Marathon, these quiet, empty moments are powerful in their own way. The plates full of uneaten food at an abandoned restaurant suggest the chaos immediately following the explosions, causing people to flee leaving unfinished drinks and unpaid bills. Yellow bags full of runners' personal belongings, intended to be picked up...

Holocaust survivors remember the horrors of Buchenwald

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 08:22 AM PDT

Between July 1937 and April 1945, the Nazis imprisoned a quarter of a million people in the Buchenwaldconcentration camp, located near the German city of Weimar. Around 56,000 of them were killed before the camp was liberated by U.S troopson April 11, 1945.68 years later, Reuters photographerLisi Niesner interviewed some of the remaining survivors as they returned to Buchenwald to mark the anni...

Venezuelan rivals rally supporters after clashes over election results

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 02:48 AM PDT

Both sides in Venezuela's political standoff will hold rival demonstrations on Tuesday after authorities rejected opposition demands for a presidential election recount and protesters clashed with police in Caracas.Opposition leader Henrique Capriles says his team's figures show he won the election on Sunday and he wants a full audit of official results that narrowly gave victory to ruling par...

The man in the hat at Boston Marathon finish line: Carlos Arredondo didn't set out to be hero

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 02:42 AM PDT

It's an iconic image that captures a moment when one Boston Marathon bystander became much more.With blood-soaked hands and wearing a cowboy hat, Carlos Arredondohelps rush a young man in a wheelchair to safety after explosions turned Monday's race into a disaster scene.He appears to be pinching closed a severed artery protruding from the victim's thigh, stanching the flow of blood from a torn an...

Sympathy for Boston from outer space

Posted: 15 Apr 2013 07:31 PM PDT

Monday's Boston Marathon bombing prompted expressions of sympathy from humanity's farthest-flung outpost: the International Space Station."Our crew just heard about the horrible events at the Boston Marathon," the space station's commander, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, wrote in a Twitter update. "We all pass along our condolences and thoughts to everyone affected."Later, Hadfield tweeted a p...

Sympathy for Boston from space

Posted: 15 Apr 2013 07:31 PM PDT

Occupy protestor calls attention to minimum wage subsidy provision in New York

Posted: 15 Apr 2013 05:51 PM PDT

NBC News reports:Due to the lingering effects of the Great Recession, the Hollywood image of the care-free, freckle-faced, teenage hamburger flipper is no longer the norm. Only 16 percent of fast food industry jobs now go to teens, down from 25 percent a decade ago.Many of the older workers are better educated, too. More than 42 percent of restaurant and fast-food employees over the age of 25 have...

Explosions at Boston Marathon finish line kill 2, injure dozens

Posted: 15 Apr 2013 03:00 PM PDT

By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC NewsEditor's Note: The image below is graphic and may be disturbing for some viewers.Two explosions, described by race organizers as bombs, went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday as runners completed the course and thousands cheered them on. At least two people were killed and 23 injured, police said.Video from the finish line showed an eno...