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"SXSW crash claims 3rd life"
AUSTIN, Texas — A third person died Monday from injuries sustained in last week's tragedy in which a drunk driver plowed through a crowd outside a nightclub at the South By Southwest music festival.
A car hit the victim, Sandy Le, on Thursday outside The Mohawk nightclub, according to the Travis County Medical Examiner's Office.
Le was an Austin resident but was a native of Pass Christian, Miss., according to her family.
Jamie West, 27, of Austin; and Steven Craenmehr, 35, of Amsterdam, were killed. Twenty-two others were injured. Seven people remain hospitalized.
Rashad Owens, 21, of Killeen, Texas, has been charged with capital murder and aggravated assault with a motor vehicle. He's accused of driving drunk, fleeing from police and intentionally driving into a crowd of festival-goers.
Police say Craenmehr was on a bicycle, and West was on a moped with her husband. West's husband remains in the hospital.
SXSW ended its 28th year early Sunday.
Proximity- http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODE/AustinAmericanStatesmanNIE/
This article has to do with proximity because it concerns Austin which is where we live.
"Austin schools tally 1,000 students who intentionally hurt themselves"
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Prominence- http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/world/asia/india-flight-370-missing-airplane.html?ref=world&_r=0
This is prominent because it is very talked about and current.
"India suspends its search for Flight 370"
PORT BLAIR, India — After scouring more than 24,000 nautical square miles, India on Sunday suspended its search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the waters around the isolated Andaman and Nicobar Islands chain while officials in Kuala Lumpur consider where else to search.
“We’re taking a temporary pause,” said a senior Indian military official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he had not been authorized to discuss the search publicly. “We are conserving our resources so that we can renew the hunt with great vigor.
Four Indian military ships and six aircraft have spent most of the past four days scanning huge expanses of ocean on both sides of the Andamans, of which Port Blair is the capital. Malaysian officials believe that Flight 370 was deliberately flown off course, and one theory has been that it was headed toward the island chain.
But the Andamans are not on either of the two vast corridors of territory where the Malaysian authorities now believe the plane ended up, based on its last transmission to a satellite at 8:11 a.m. on March 8.
There are hundreds of deserted tropical islands in this area, and nighttime radar coverage of the skies is not always robust, military officials said. So it is possible that a Boeing 777 could have flown over the area and perhaps crashed on or near an uninhabited island without being noticed, officials said. But India’s military has done such a thorough search of the region since Wednesday that such a scenario, always unlikely, has become almost impossible to believe, officials said.
Still, they are eager to demonstrate their willingness to continue searching until all hope fades. Holi, one of India’s most important religious holidays, is on Monday, but military officials said their men will not celebrate it this year.
“Holi or no Holi, we will search when the task comes,” the senior military official said. “The families of those missing come first.”
Since the ships would need 10 or more hours to return to port, officials have instructed captains to remain in the search area while the Malaysian government reconsiders where to send them.
On Friday, officials here had some brief hope of a break in the case when pilots spotted smoke rising from the Sentinel Islands, a set of small islands with nearly impenetrable jungle and an aboriginal population that largely shuns the outside world.
But a helicopter flew over the smoldering area and determined that the fire was probably set by local residents for agricultural purposes. The helicopter came back with photos of yellow flames and two nearly naked men on a pristine white beach, brandishing spears.
“The islands there are tribal, and the policy is to leave them alone,” said V. Anbarasan, the commandant of the Indian Coast Guard in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. “There’s no wreckage there.”
India has been eager to demonstrate its ability to police these waters, as they include busy shipping lanes and China has become increasingly assertive in the nearby South China Sea.
Impact- http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODE/AustinAmericanStatesmanNIE/
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The explosion in Harlem had an impact on on all the people who were affected and the rest of the world as they mourned the dead.
Conflict- http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/world/middleeast/palestinians-split-in-gaza-as-hamas-blocks-fatah-rally.html?ref=world
This is a conflict because it had a group splitting into two sides
"Palestinians Split in Gaza as Hamas Blocks Fatah Rally"
GAZA — Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza, prevented supporters of the rival Fatah party from holding a rare demonstration here on Sunday in solidarity with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority ahead of his meeting with President Obama, which is set for Monday in Washington.
Hamas police officers and detectives confiscated posters of Mr. Abbas and Palestinian flags and arrested several organizers of the rally as they gathered in a central square in Gaza City. It was a sign of the enduring political and geographical schism between Hamas, in Gaza, and the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, a factor that further complicates already difficult American-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts.
Hamas’s 2006 victory in legislative elections, followed by a brief factional war that pushed Fatah out of Gaza completely, has entrenched the division between the factions. Hamas, which does not recognize Israel, has since confined Fatah’s forces to the West Bank. Numerous attempts at reconciliation have so far failed to produce tangible results, with each side accusing the other of being unwilling to make any real concessions.
Amal Hammad, a Fatah official in Gaza, said a coalition of Fatah and leftist organizations calling itself the Popular Campaign to Support the President had called for rallies on Sunday and Monday and had requested permission from the Hamas authorities 48 hours earlier. Hamas did not respond, she said, adding, “We considered this as an approval.”
Preventing the rally, Ms. Hammad said, “does not serve national unity or national reconciliation.” She said that Hamas arrested seven organizers, confiscated five cameras and prevented buses and taxis from bringing people to the site of the rally.
Islam Shahwan, the spokesman for the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza, said in a statement, “Due to the great internal polarization among Fatah currents and in order to maintain the state of general security, and to make sure that such activities won’t be employed for the trading of accusations between these currents, we decided that such activities should not take place.”
The aim of the rally was to shore up Mr. Abbas against Israeli and American pressure and maintain what Ms. Hammad described as “national principles.” Those, she said, meant rejecting any Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and insisting on East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state, which the Palestinians aim to establish in the territories captured by Israel in the 1967 war. Similar rallies were being organized in the West Bank.
The Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that resumed last summer after years of stagnation are reaching a critical juncture. Secretary of State John Kerry originally set a goal of reaching an agreement within nine months, ending in late April. Though the details of the negotiations have been kept confidential, there appears to have been little progress.
Now the Obama administration is trying to broker a framework accord that would outline the core principles of a comprehensive agreement and serve as a basis for continued talks.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has made Palestinian recognition of his country as the nation-state of the Jewish people a central condition for any agreement, but the issue has emerged as a major sticking point, with Mr. Abbas adamantly refusing to recognize the Jewish character of Israel.
Although the United States has long recognized Israel as a Jewish state, Mr. Kerry said in Congress last week that it was a “mistake” for people to raise the issue “again and again as the critical decider of their attitude” toward a peace agreement.
Moshe Yaalon, Israel’s defense minister and a hard-line member of Mr. Netanyahu’s conservative Likud Party, said in an interview on Israeli television this weekend he disagreed with Mr. Kerry’s remarks “in the most unequivocal way,” adding, “We cannot make an agreement without the other side recognizing our right to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish people within any borders.”
Human Interest- http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/03/17/reports-lwren-scott-found-dead/6525343/
This story is human interest because a well known fashion designer and girlfriend to Mick Jagger was found dead.
Reports: Fashion designer L'Wren Scott found dead
Fashion designer
Scott's body was found hanging from a scarf on a doorknob by her assistant at her New York apartment around 10 a.m. today, reports the Daily News. The medical examiner's office will determine the cause of death.
A spokesman for Jagger said the singer was "completely shocked and devastated" by Scott's death, reports the BBC. Scott had been in a relationship with the Rolling Stones frontman for more than a decade.
Jagger is currently on tour with his band and recently arrived in Australia.
Novelty- http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/03/17/tom-hiddleston-sings-like-pirate-pirate-fairy/6513689/
This story was interesting because it had a well known actor doing something that you don't hear about often.
"Tom Hiddleston sings like a pirate"
Hiddleston stars as a young
If there were any doubts that the guy who plays
And when he sings of the ship's masts, Hiddleston points joyously to the studio ceiling. The only thing that could possibly make this better would be if he were wearing a puffy pirate shirt instead of his dapper white button-down.
The Pirate Fairy has Hiddleston playing another villain, this time alongside the headstrong fairy Zarina (voiced by
