Rainy Memorial Day forecast for SE coast

Rainy Memorial Day forecast for SE coast

SAVANNAH, Ga.

A cluster of thunderstorms that stalled off the southeastern U.S. coast Saturday is expected to make for a sloppy, rainy Memorial Day on beaches and in tourist towns from Florida to South Carolina.

Tropical-storm warnings were in effect for the entire Georgia coastline, as well as parts of Florida and South Carolina.

Pope’s butler arrested

VATICAN CITY

An already sordid scandal over leaked Vatican documents took a Hollywood-like turn Saturday with confirmation that the pope’s own butler had been arrested after documents he had no business having were found in his Vatican City apartment.

The detention of butler Paolo Gabriele capped one of the most convulsive weeks in recent Vatican history and threw the Holy See into chaos as it enters a critical phase in its efforts to show the world it’s serious about complying with international norms on financial transparency.

The tumult began with the publication last weekend of a book of leaked Vatican documents detailing power struggles, political intrigue and corruption in the highest levels of Catholic Church governance.

Dozens of children die in attacks in Syria

BEIRUT

Gruesome video Saturday showed rows of dead Syrian children lying in a mosque in bloody shorts and T-shirts with gaping head wounds, haunting images of what activists called one of the deadliest regime attacks yet in Syria’s 14-month-old uprising.

The shelling attack on Houla, a group of villages northwest of the central city of Homs, killed more than 90 people, including at least 32 children under age 10, the head of the U.N. observer team in Syria said.

Report: Miami cops kill naked attacker

MIAMI

Miami police and witnesses say that an officer fatally shot a naked man who was chewing on the face of another man on a downtown causeway off-ramp.

The Miami Herald reported that gunshots were heard about 2 p.m. Saturday on the MacArthur Causeway off-ramp. Witnesses said that a woman saw two men fighting and flagged down an officer, who saw a naked man mauling the other man. The newspaper quoted witnesses as saying that the officer ordered the naked man to back away, and when he ignored repeated demands, fatally shot him.

NASA astronauts unload SpaceX cargo

LOS ANGELES

Less than 24 hours after a historic docking, astronauts aboard the International Space Station clambered into SpaceX’s unmanned Dragon spacecraft and began unloading supplies that were packed inside.

Wearing oxygen masks as a precaution, the astronauts opened the hatch, slid the door open, and took delivery of the 1,014 pounds of food, water and clothing aboard Dragon.

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