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evacuation drill aimed at getting everyone to higher ground within 20 minutes.
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• 7. EX-RUTGERS STUDENT HEADS TO JAIL FOR SPYING ON GAY ROOMMATE
• At 1 p.m., Dharun Ravi begins a 30-day sentence for using his webcam in 2010 to spy on Tyler Clementi and another man kissing. Clementi committed suicide days later.
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• 8. SHOOTINGS LEAVE SUSPECT, 5 OTHERS DEAD IN OUTBURST OF VIOLENCE IN SEATTLE
• A man's shooting spree that killed four in a cafe and another in a carjacking brings to 21 the number of homicides in Seattle so far this year -- the same as last year's total.
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• 9. WHO WILL WIN THE NATIONAL SPELLING BEE?
• Fifty finalists take the stage at 10 a.m., culminating tonight when a winner walks away with a $30,000 prize.
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• 10. KINGS TAKE GAME 1 OF THE STANLEY CUP FINALS
• Anze Kopitar scored a spectacular goal in overtime to lift the Los Angeles Kings to a 2-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils.
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AP News in Brief
For Obama and Romney, deepening crisis in Syria is a no-win political situation
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Escalating violence in Syria has become the ultimate no-win political situation for President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney: The deepening crisis is impossible for their campaigns to ignore but too complex for them to articulate an easy solution.
• Romney has seized on the crackdown in Syria as an opportunity to dent Obama's foreign policy credentials, painting him as weak and indecisive in the face of more than a year of violence. But Romney's vague prescriptions for what he would do differently have opened him to criticism from the Obama campaign that he is weighing in from the sidelines with "nothing but tough talk" while the president does the real work of managing the crisis.
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