"The prime minister should have assigned one minister to be completely, fully in charge, mandated to be more transparent, otherwise there is no confidence." - Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim, who ripped Prime Minister Najib Razak as being "incompetent" and "inept" in his handling of the investigation into the missing airplane. [...]]]>
Officials are now looking into the possibility that the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 did fly for hours after it dropped off radar, as U.S. officials have said, and that it was headed toward the Andaman Islands, CNN reported. Officials think the plane might have been hijacked and that whoever was flying the plane was following [...]]]>
In a groundbreaking case, a New Jersey judge ruled today that fathers don't have a legal right to be in the delivery room at the birth of their child. The ruling stemmed from a case in which a couple broke up, and the mom-to-be didn't want the dad in the delivery room. He sued, and the case wound up before Superior Court Judge Sohail Mohammed. [...]]]>
Austin, Texas, police said a drunken driver who was fleeing from police plowed his car into a crowd at the South by Southwest festival, killing two people and injuring 23. The driver had been driving the wrong direction on a one-way street when police attempted to pull him over. The driver fled and eventually drove into the crowd at SXSW. [...]]]>
"This is a private matter. It should never have been brought to the court's attention. It should have never been brought to the public." - Lawyer Angelo Sarno. Sarno is the new lawyer of the parents of an 18-year-old girl who sued her parents, seeking $654 a week for living and schooling costs. Rachel Canning, however, is now [...]]]>
The wife of former Penn State assistant football coach and convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky spoke out on her husband's conviction today on "Today Show." Dottie Sandusky said, "He is innocent" and claimed money convinced people to lie against Jerry Sandusky. The 70-year-old is serving a 30- to 60-year prison [...]]]>
A Malaysian Air Force official told CNN today that the missing airplane was hundreds of miles off course and flying in the wrong direction when it dropped off the radar. The plane was flying west instead of northeast, officials said, and it had stopped sending information. Officials now are looking into the possibility of a power failure or [...]]]>
The head of Interpol said today that the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight "was not a terrorist incident," according to CNN. Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said that the two passengers who were traveling with stolen passports do not appear to be linked to any terrorists organizations, and that one of the men was trying to [...]]]>
According to a report from USA Today, officials have identified a man who bought two tickets on the missing Malaysian flight using stolen passports. Thai police said Kazem Ali of Iran bought the tickets for two friends who were trying to get home to Europe. The final destination on the tickets itinerary were for Europe, officials said. [...]]]>
There's still no sign of the Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing Saturday. Dozens of planes and ships from eight nations are combing the seas for signs of the airplane, but officials have yet to come up with anything. "For the aircraft to go missing just like that ... as far as we are concerned, we are equally puzzled as well," said Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director general of the Malaysian civil aviation department, CNN reported.
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