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Oklahoma City ceremony recalls those lost in terror attack
A crowd of about a thousand gathered at the site in Oklahoma City where a terrorist bomb destroyed the federal building and killed 168 people two decades ago. They were there to remember the dead and hear speakers who included Bill Clinton, who was president at the time, and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin. The service was held at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, which was established where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood. The terror attack that destroyed it was, at the time, the deadliest on U.S. soil. Timothy McVeigh, an Army veteran with strong anti-government views, was executed for carrying out the bombing. His accomplice, Terry Nichols, is serving life in prison.
Hundreds of migrants feared drowned in Mediterranean
Hundreds were feared dead Sunday after a boat carrying up to 700 people capsized north of Libya in what could be the deadliest migrant disaster in the Mediterranean Sea. Only a few dozen people had been rescued in what Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat called the "biggest human tragedy of the last few years." Tens of thousands are fleeing war and persecution in North Africa and the Middle East for Europe — and risking drowning while crossing the Mediterranean. The growing humanitarian crisis will likely worsen this spring as the weather improves. The overnight capsizing prompted European officials and Pope Francis to call for action to stop the deadly tide of migration.
Target's Lilly Pulitzer launch creates shopping frenzy
Heavy demand for the much-anticipated debut of Target's Lilly Pulitzer product line overloaded the retailer's website Sunday and left racks and shelves bare. Target.com never crashed, but "there was extreme traffic" to the site, said Target spokesman Joshua Thomas. The company intentionally made the site inaccessible for about 15 minutes around 3 a.m. ET, he said. Subsequently, online supplies were quickly bought up, and by noon ET everything was "virtually sold out," Thomas said. Lines began forming early at brick-and-mortar stores Sunday, and many shoppers went home empty-handed as products quickly sold out there, too. Oh, in case you were wondering, Target isn't getting any more of the sold-out Pulitzer products.
ISIL video purports to show killing of Ethiopian Christians
A video purporting to show the killing of Ethiopian Christians by Islamic State-affiliated militants in Libya has been released online. The 29-minute video appears to show militants holding two groups of captives, one by an affiliate in eastern Libya known as Barka Province and the other by the Fazzan Province, an affiliate in the south. A masked fighter wielding a pistol says Christians must convert to Islam or pay a special tax prescribed by the Quran, before the captives in the south are shown being shot dead and the captives in the east are beheaded on a beach.
'Green Gables' star Jonathan Crombie dies
For many women of Generation X, Jonathan Crombie was their first PBS crush, even if they didn't know his name. He played Gilbert Blythe, the school rival, boyfriend and eventual husband of the heroine in the beloved Anne of Green Gables movies. Crombie, 48, died of a brain hemorrhage Wednesday In New York, his sister Carrie told the Canadian Broadcasting Co. on Saturday. "I think there will be hundreds of people who will be floored that this has happened," Green Gables producer Kevin Sullivan said of Crombie's sudden passing. "It's such a devastating tragedy. In reality, Jonathan was as generous, as kind, as sensitive and as ambitious, in some ways, as the character he came to be identified with."