Al Qaeda Reportedly Releases 73 Captured Yemeni Soldiers

Killing of gay man in NYC draws protesters Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 1:42 am, Tuesday, May 21, 2013 NEW YORK (AP) — The killing of a gay man who police say was taunted with homophobic slurs drew thousands of people to the scene of the crime to restore a sense of safety to one of the nation's most gay-friendly neighborhoods. Christine Quinn, the city's first openly gay City Council speaker, marched along with Edie Windsor, whose pivotal case to win the same rights for gay couples as heterosexual couples is before the Supreme Court. The gay rights movement crystallized in the Village in June 1969, when a police raid at the Stonewall Inn touched off a riot and demonstrations that came to symbolize gays' resistance to being relegated to society's shadows. In 2010, authorities said Bronx gang members beat and tortured four people in an anti-gay rage, two men were accused of a gay-bashing beating at the Stonewall Inn itself and a man spewed homophobic insults while throwing a punch at another Village bar — all assaults that happened within little more than a week. The New York City Anti-Violence Project, a nonprofit group that tracks police and other reports of hate attacks against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, says its numbers rose 13 percent in 2011 and 11 percent the previous year.

Officer late to work spots escaped inmate Corrections Officer Brandy Boyer says if she hadn't been 10 minutes late leaving for work Saturday morning she wouldn't have spotted a prison escapee. Boyer told The Columbian (http://is.gd/Yv8Vzk ) she was driving to Larch Corrections Center in southwest Washington for her shift when she spotted a man wearing a prison-issued outfit of gray sweatpants, a white T-shirt over a white thermal shirt and a khaki stocking cap. The inmate by that time had jumped a fence and hidden in blackberry bushes.

Easier travel ahead for Conn. commuters Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 1:39 am, Tuesday, May 21, 2013 (AP) — Commuters facing long delays after a train collision disrupted their route along Connecticut's shoreline can look forward to easier traveling. Connecticut lawmakers plan hearings on the crash on the rail network they say is in need of extensive improvements. Members of the General Assembly's Transportation Committee said they have been briefed by state transportation officials over the years about the hefty investment Connecticut needs to make to fully upgrade the commuter rail line, including a couple of 100-year-old bridges that need to be replaced. [] he had a shuttle bus and a train ride before he got to his destination, Grand Central Terminal in New York. Some commuters used a jury-rigged alternative that is to continue Tuesday: A shuttle train ran between New Haven and Bridgeport, where a bus connection to Stamford circumvented the accident scene, and finally customers boarded a train for New York.

Myanmar Muslims jailed for killing Buddhist monk MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) — Six Muslim men and one minor have been sentenced to jail terms ranging from life to two years in prison for involvement in the killing of a Buddhist monk during sectarian violence in central Myanmar. A dispute at a Muslim-owned gold shop in the town of Meikhtila on March 20 triggered rioting by Buddhists and small-scale retaliation by their Muslim targets.

Myanmar court sentences Muslims for killing Buddhist monk during sectarian unrest