Gunman kills 2 U.S. soldiers in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) " A gunman wearing an Iraqi army uniform opened fire on a U.S. military team Saturday, killing two American soldiers and wounding three, the U.S. military said, in an attack that could sharpen worries about militant infiltration in Iraq's security forces.
Iraqi officials described the attacker " who was killed in the gun battle " as a soldier who also served as a Sunni Muslim preacher for his unit near Mosul, one of the last urban strongholds for Sunni insurgents.
Tour bus crash on freeway injures 28
PERRIS, Calif. (AP) " Authorities say 28 people have been injured, eight critically, after a tour bus crashed into a freeway divider in Southern California.
The Riverside County Fire Department says the crash was reported shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday on Interstate 215 in Perris.
Department spokeswoman Cheri Patterson says everyone aboard the bus was injured, including eight people who were taken to the hospital with critical injuries.
Boston Globe union granted deadline extension
BOSTON (AP) " Negotiations between unions at The Boston Globe and its owner, The New York Times Co., will continue after the company agreed to extend its midnight deadline for the newspapers' employees to make $20 million in concessions.
"Because there has been progress on reaching needed cost savings, The Boston Globe will extend the deadline for reaching complete agreements with its unions until midnight Sunday May 3," Globe spokesman Robert Powers said in a statement.
Leaders of the Boston Newspaper Guild, the Globe's largest union, asked for an extension of Friday's deadline after discovering what they called a $4.5 million accounting error.
The Guild, which has been asked to come up with $10 million of the $20 million in concessions, said ownership mistakenly was counting the salaries and benefits of 80 people who have left their jobs at the Globe since the beginning of the year.