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mocrats to flee the state for three weeks in a vain attempt to stop the bill. Walker signed it into law March 11 virtually unchanged from how he proposed it.
• Q: Isn't this unusual? How often do governors face recalls?
• A: This is the third recall election of a governor in U.S. history. The other two were successful in throwing the incumbent out of office -- against California Gov. Gray Davis in 2003 and North Dakota Gov. Lynn Frazier in 1921.
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Heavy seasonal rains and wind tear through Nigeria plane crash site, slowing search for dead
• LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A torrential downpour and strong winds prevented emergency crews from returning Tuesday morning to a devastated neighborhood where a commercial airliner crashed, killing all 153 people aboard the plane and an undetermined number of people on the ground.
• The storm began Tuesday morning before dawn, flooding roads and bringing down power lines and trees in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city. Traffic crawled through the area, stopping searchers from returning to the site, said Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency.
• Charred metal from the plane, rubble from destroyed buildings, thick mud and standing water await the emergency workers. A three-story apartment building at the site struck by the nose of the MD-83 aircraft began shaking Monday as rescuers dug through debris, and they are afraid it might collapse.
• "It's going to be messy," Shuaib said.
• The crash happened Sunday afternoon in Lagos' Iju-Ishaga neighborhood, about nine kilometers (five miles) from Lagos' Murtala Muhammed International Airport. Pilots on the flight from Nigeria's capital Abuja to its largest city of Lagos radioed the tower that they had engine trouble shortly before the crash, but the exact cause remained unclear. The weather was clear at the time.
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Sandusky's trial on child sexual abuse charges to begin with jury selection in Pa. courthouse
• BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Despite his repeated efforts to delay it, Jerry Sandusky's child molestation trial was set to begin with the start of jury selection, as prosecutors and his defense lawyers choose 12 people from the area around Penn State to decide his guilt or innocence.
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