Vacationing family killed in plane crash

Vacationing family killed in plane crash

ANCHORAGE, Alaska

Five members of a vacationing South Carolina family were among those killed in a fiery Alaska plane crash that left all 10 on board dead.

The Antonakos family of Greenville, S.C., usually went to Myrtle Beach, S.C., each summer, but the father of Kimberly Antonakos said Monday his daughter and her family decided to travel to Alaska for 10 days this year instead.

Investigators have begun their probe into the crash of a de Havilland DHC3 Otter that crashed and burned shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday at the airport in Soldotna, about 75 miles southwest of Anchorage. The plane had just taken off and apparently was en route to a fishing lodge, according to National Transportation Safety Board investigator Clint Johnson.

More than 50 die in clashes in Egypt

CAIRO

Egypt was rocked Monday by the deadliest day since its Islamist president was toppled by the military, with more than 50 of his supporters killed by security forces as the country’s top Muslim cleric raised the specter of civil war.

The military found itself on the defensive after the bloodshed, but the interim president drove ahead with the army’s political plan. He issued a swift timetable for the process of amending the Islamist-backed constitution and set parliamentary and presidential elections for early 2014.

Anthony to pay $25K to settle dispute

ORLANDO, Fla.

Casey Anthony has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a dispute in her bankruptcy case surrounding the rights to sell her life story, according to documents recently filed in the case.

Anthony filed for bankruptcy protection early this year, and in March, trustee Stephen L. Meininger filed a motion seeking permission to sell “the exclusive worldwide rights of Anthony’s life story.”

Meininger argued Anthony’s story is property and an asset that could be sold off to pay the more than $790,000 she owes others.

Anthony’s bankruptcy attorneys have opposed Meininger’s motion, saying it creates a “slippery slope that would have dangerous repercussions far beyond the scope of this case.”

Judge blocks new Wis. abortion law

MADISON, Wis.

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Monday evening to block enforcement of a new Wisconsin law that bans doctors who lack admitting privileges at nearby hospitals from performing abortions.

U.S. District Judge William Conley granted the order after a hearing in a lawsuit filed Friday by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and Affiliated Medical Services. It alleged the requirement would unconstitutionally restrict the availability of abortions in the state, violates the U.S. Constitution’s due-process guarantee and unconstitutionally treats doctors who perform abortions differently from those who perform other procedures.

Lab-made-trachea recipient, 2, dies

CHICAGO

A 2-year-old girl who was implanted with a windpipe grown from her own stem cells has died, three months after she became the youngest person to receive the experimental treatment.

Hannah Warren died Saturday at Children’s Hospital of Illinois in Peoria, hospital spokeswoman Shelli Dankoff said. Dr. Rick Pearl, one of three surgeons involved in the operation, told The Associated Press that Hannah died of lung complications after a second surgery, but that the new windpipe “worked very well” until the end.

Combined dispatches