National News

• NYC officials: Taxi drivers scammed riders by $8.3M-plus by setting meters to suburban rate

  NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years by setting their meters at a rate that was supposed to be used for trips to the suburbs, the Taxi and Limousine Commission said Friday. more

• San Antonio police call off landfill search, no sign of Arizona baby missing since December

  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San Antonio police have called off a landfill search after finding no evidence in the disappearance of an 8-month-old Arizona boy. more

• California molester's release from prison thwarted by federal case filed in Florida

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The feared release of a convicted child molester from a California prison was thwarted Friday by 11th-hour federal charges involving child porn and a woman's allegations that he bought her as a child in Asia and subjected her to years of sexual abuse while molesting her... more

• Ohio man's lawyers put on no defense; jury convicts him of killing 2 teens

  CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio registered sex offender, whose attorneys had told jurors he admitted to killing two teenage girls, has been found guilty of the slayings. more

• UN chief heading to Haiti for second post-quake tour to discuss upcoming donors conference

  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he is heading to Haiti on Sunday for his second visit since the devastating earthquake to prepare for the upcoming donors conference to raise money for reconstruction. more

• Principal at heart of 'intifada' uproar wins discrimination ruling against NYC Ed Dept.

  NEW YORK (AP) — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that the New York City Education Department discriminated against the founding principal of an Arabic-language school who lost her job after she made controversial remarks about the word "intifada." more

• Jogger jumps off seaside cliff, slides 100 feet down steep Calif. hillside to evade attacker

  MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a man tried to sexually assault a Southern California jogger who escaped by jumping off a cliff and sliding about 100 feet down a steep hillside. more

• Oakland, Calif., woman accused of suffocating her 2-year-old daughter charged with murder

  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A 19-year-old Oakland woman accused of suffocating her 2-year-old daughter is being held without bail after being charged with murder. more

• San Francisco police probe a dozen alleged hate crime shootings by cousins using BB gun

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Prosecutors who have charged three cousins with a hate crime for shooting a San Francisco man with a BB gun because they thought he was gay said Friday they're considering charging the suspects in 11 similar shootings. more

• Colorado school shooting suspect says he heard voices, was fending off 'transforming forces'

  GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — The voices Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood thought were coming from a television box haunted him for years, and he told sheriff's deputies he continued to hear them the day he took a rifle to his old middle school and wounded two students. more