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• KWAT radio reports that the new charge was filed Friday. It was not immediately clear if Barse had obtained a lawyer. He's being held on $50,000 bond and is not expected to make a court appearance until next week.
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Thunderstorm, tornado warnings to be enhanced
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The National Weather Service plans to beef up its weather warnings during this year's thunderstorm and tornado season in the central U.S. to give the public a better indication of the potential impact of storms, including the amount of damage expected.
• The effort is in response to studies of devastating storms in 2011, particularly a tornado in Joplin, Mo., that killed 161 people, injured hundreds of others and damage or destroyed thousands of homes and businesses.
• "The purpose is to provide better communication ... and give a better picture of the threat," John Paul Martin, a warning coordination meteorologist in the North Dakota capital of Bismarck, told The Bismarck Tribune. "The idea is to get people to take appropriate action."
• Basic thunderstorm and tornado warnings from the weather service will remain the same, but they also now will include more specific information on a storm's intensity and potential damage, Martin said. There will be two categories of potential damage -- "considerable" and "catastrophic."
• The "Impact Based Warnings" system will be launched in April by 38 weather service offices in 14 states and will continue through November. It is an expansion of a 2012 experiment in five weather service offices.
• The success of the system ultimately will be evaluated using an independent research group and feedback from the public, according to Jim Keeney, weather program manager at the weather service's central region headquarters in Kansas City, Mo.
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Slow changes: A stroll through 4 papacies
VICTOR L. SIMPSON,Associated Press
• VATICAN CITY (AP) -- In one of his last major public appearances before his death, Pope Paul VI sat on a throne atop a platform carried on the shoulders of 12 men as he was brought into the funeral of assassinated Italian politician Aldo Moro at St. John Lateran Cathedral in 1978.
• The basilica was crammed with Italian dignitaries shaken by the kidnapping and death of Moro at the hands of the Red Brigades terrorist gang, and I thought the frail (Continued on page 38)
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