Homicide charges filed in stabbings
NORTHAMPTON, Pa. — A man who served prison time for a 1992 murder was charged Sunday with fatally stabbing four people, including a woman described as the suspect's former girlfriend and her 87-year-old grandfather.
Police charged Michael Eric Ballard, 36, with four counts of homicide for Saturday's rampage in the eastern Pennsylvania town of Northampton, about 70 miles north of Philadelphia.
Police alleged that Ballard killed 39-year-old Denise Merhi, her father and her grandfather along with a neighbor who rushed over to help.
Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli said he will seek the death penalty.
Justice Ginsburg's husband dies at 78
WASHINGTON — Martin Ginsburg, the husband of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a prominent lawyer in his own right, died Sunday from complications of metastatic cancer. He was 78.
The Supreme Court said in a statement that Ginsburg died at home.
The Ginsburgs celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary last week. They met on a blind date as undergraduates at Cornell University.
Martin Ginsburg was an expert in tax law and taught at New York University, Columbia University and Georgetown University over the course of his career.
Survivors also include two children, Jane and James. A private burial will take place at Arlington National Cemetery.
McCain disagrees with Brewer's words
PHOENIX — Sen. John McCain says he disagrees with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's statements that most people crossing the U.S. southern border illegally are smuggling drugs, but he thinks she is doing a good job of standing up for her state.
Brewer has said the motivation of "a lot" of the illegal immigrants is to enter the United States to look for work but that drug rings press them into duty as drug "mules." Her office later said most human smuggling into Arizona is under the direction of drug cartels, which "are by definition smuggling drugs."
The Arizona Republican senator told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday that he thinks the governor is correct in saying that cartel movement has increased and that the state deserves better security than what it's getting from the federal government.
FBI helping search for woman in Nepal
GREELEY, Colo. — The FBI says it's helping the U.S. State Department in the investigation of a Colorado woman who disappeared while trekking alone in Nepal.
Denver FBI spokesman Dave Joly said Sunday the agency is also working with Nepalese authorities on the disappearance of 23-year-old Aubrey Sacco of Greeley.
Sacco hasn't been heard from since April 20, when she e-mailed her parents from Nepal. She planned to finish her trip around April 30.
'Massive' storm kills 1 at Michigan camp
DETROIT — Authorities say a 75-year-old man is dead and four other people are injured after a severe storm moved through an eastern Michigan campground.
Sheriff Tim Donnellon says a "massive" storm moved through the Fort Trodd Family Campground in St. Clair County's Clyde Township shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday.
Donnellon says James Anderson of Mount Clemens was killed. Four others were taken to area hospitals. St. Clair County Emergency Management director Jeff Friedland says their injuries are "not too serious."
200 injured at L.A. music festival
LOS ANGELES — Authorities say more than 200 people were injured and more than 100 were taken to hospitals during a two-day electronic music festival and rave at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Exposition Park.
Authorities said Sunday that some were hurt as people rushed barriers trying to get in without the $75 admission ticket at the 14th annual Electric Daisy Carnival, which featured rides and five stages with performances by Moby and Will.I.Am.
Los Angeles fire spokesman Brian Humphrey says most of the 114 people hospitalized were taken for drug or alcohol problems. Humphrey says there were 226 injuries reported.
Organizers say the event drew a total of 185,000 people on Friday and Saturday.
Palin says Obama sold out Israel
NORFOLK, Va. — Sarah Palin on Sunday painted President Barack Obama's administration as a cowering giant intent on surrendering the nation's mantle as a superpower and willing to sell out its allies.
The former Alaska governor addressed a paying audience of several hundred people in Norfolk and accused Obama of selling out ally Israel over its naval blockade of Gaza and treating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shabbily. She also said Obama lacked the resolve to stand up to Russia and China.
"Do they think, really, that we're getting anything in return for all this bowing and kowtowing and apologizing? No, we don't get anything positive in return for this," Palin said.
"So …our allies are left to wonder about the value of an alliance with our country anymore. They're asking what is it worth," she said.