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• • 7. IN OHIO, 'ALL I KNOW IS MY BABY IS GONE' • One grieving father speaks after his son and five other teens are killed in the violent crash of a speeding SUV. • • 8. HOW JEB BUSH SMACKS AWAY TALK OF 2016 • The ex-Florida governor tells NBC's David Gregory that reporters are "crack addicts" for focusing on the next presidential race. • • 9. WHAT A STUDY OF MUMMIES FOUND • Even 4,000 years ago -- long before fast food -- people suffered from clogged arteries. • • 10. AFTER A TUNE-UP, TIGER IS HUMMING • Woods wins at Doral by 2 strokes, readying for a run at the Masters. • • •
AP News in Brief South Korean, US troops launch military drills that North Korea has threatened war over
• SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North and South Korea staged dueling war games Monday as threatening rhetoric from the rivals rose to the highest level since North Korea rained artillery shells on a South Korean island in 2010. • Enraged over the South's joint military drills with the United States and recent U.N. sanctions, Pyongyang has piled threat on top of threat, including vows to launch a nuclear strike on the U.S. and to scrap the nearly 60-year-old armistice that ended the Korean War. Seoul has responded with tough talk of its own and has placed its troops on high alert. • North Korea's main newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, reported that the armistice was nullified Monday as Pyongyang had previously announced. The North followed through on another promise Monday, shutting down a Red Cross hotline that the North and South used for general communication and to discuss aid shipments and separated families' reunions. • The 11-day military drills that started Monday involve 10,000 South Korean and (Continued on page 18)
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