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• Tuesday's high-profile primary elections may see tea party Republicans losing individual races but nonetheless tugging the GOP rightward.
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• 8. SAN ANTONIO MAYOR'S STAR MAY BE ON RISE
• President Obama's expected nomination of Julian Castro as HUD secretary could test the 39-year-old's ability to navigate Washington ahead of 2016 elections.
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• 9. 'COFFEE RUST' FORCES UP PRICE OF CUP OF JOE
• The fungus has caused more than $1 billion in damage across Latin American region.
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• 10. CALIFORNIA CHROME COULD LOSE BY A NOSE
• The Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner might abandon his Triple Crown bid if N.Y. officials don't allow the colt to wear a nasal strip at the Belmont Stakes.
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AP News in Brief
Historic flooding in Bosnia triggers more than 3,000 landslides, unearths unexploded mines
• BRCKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Floodwaters triggered more than 3,000 landslides across the Balkans on Sunday, laying waste to entire towns and villages and disturbing land mines leftover from the region's 1990s war, along with warning signs that marked the unexploded weapons.
• The Balkans' worst flooding since record keeping began forced tens of thousands of people from their homes and threatened to inundate Serbia's main power plant, which supplies electricity to a third of the country and most of the capital, Belgrade.
• Authorities organized a frenzied helicopter airlift to get terrified families to safety before the water swallowed up their homes. Many were plucked from rooftops.
• Floodwaters receded Sunday in some locations, laying bare the full scale of the damage. Elsewhere, emergency management officials warned that the water would keep rising into Sunday night.
• "The situation is catastrophic," said Bosnia's refugee minister, Adil Osmanovic.
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