FDA: Don’t eat pistachios

FDA: Don’t eat pistachios

FRESNO, Calif. — Federal food safety officials are warning consumers to stop eating all foods containing pistachios while they figure out the source of a possible salmonella contamination.

The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that central California-based Setton Farms is voluntarily recalling more than 1 million pounds of nuts.

No illnesses have been reported, but the plant has been shut down voluntarily since late last week.

California health officials say that because Setton Farms shipped nuts to 36 wholesalers across the country, it will take weeks to figure out how many products could be affected.

Motive sought in fatal case

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — An apparent murder-suicide in an upscale neighborhood of Silicon Valley that left three children and three adults dead had police searching Monday for a possible motive and sorting out the relationships between the suspected gunman and his victims.

A woman in her mid-30s managed to escape from the house where officers later found five bodies in a “very horrific” scene, police Capt. Mike Sellers. She was hospitalized in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds, Sellers said.

Officers discovered the bodies of a 10-year-old boy, a 4-year-old girl, a man in his 30s and a woman in her early 20s scattered inside the three-story town house — all of them shot dead, Sellers said. The suspected gunman, a man in his 40s, was found on the top floor, dead from a self-inflicted wound, he said.

12 die in siege in Pakistan

LAHORE, Pakistan — Black-clad Pakistani commandos overpowered a group of militants who had seized a police academy, took cadets hostage and killed at least six of them Monday in a dramatic challenge to the civilian government that faces U.S. pressure to defeat Islamic extremists.

The security forces stormed the compound on the outskirts of Lahore to end the eight-hour siege by the grenade-throwing gunmen, with three militants blowing themselves up and authorities arresting four, officials said. At least three other unidentified bodies were recovered.

2 U.S. journalists to stand trial in North Korea

SEOUL, South Korea — Two American journalists detained at North Korea’s border with China two weeks ago will be indicted and tried, “their suspected hostile acts” already confirmed, Pyongyang’s state-run news agency said Tuesday.

The Korean Central News Agency report did not say when a trial might take place but said preparations to indict the Americans were under way as the investigation continues.

Euna Lee and Laura Ling, reporters for former Vice President Al Gore’s San Francisco-based Current TV media venture, were detained by North Korean border guards March 17.

Boy arrested after explosion

QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. — A 15-year-old boy has been arrested for possessing a device made of drain cleaner that exploded in an Arizona school yard Monday, injuring him and seven others.

Pinal County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Lt. Tamatha Villar says the boy told investigators he has been building such devices with different chemicals and reactive agents to see what happened.

Villar said three other boys and four girls at the Queen Creek school suffered minor to moderate injuries, including burns to their hands, arms and faces. One of the girls also appeared to suffer burns to her eyes.

World’s biggest laser ready

WASHINGTON — After more than a decade of work and $3.5 billion, engineers have completed the world’s most powerful laser, capable of simulating the energy force of a hydrogen bomb and the sun itself.

The Energy Department will announce today that it has officially certified the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, clearing the way for a series of experiments over the next year. Scientists hope the experiments will mimic the heat and pressure found at the center of the sun.

Burial plans for slain girls

BOSTON — Two sisters and the brother who killed them with a kitchen knife will share a single funeral service and be buried together.

Samantha Revelus, 17, and her sister, Bianca, 5, were killed at their Milton home Saturday. Police shot the girls’ brother, Kerby Revelus, 23, after an officer saw him decapitate the younger girl. A surviving sister, 9-year-old Saraphina, was recovering at a Boston hospital Monday after having surgery.

Associated Press