US gas prices rise 3 cents over 2 weeks

US gas prices rise 3 cents over 2 weeks

CAMARILLO, Calif.

The average price of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline jumped 3 cents nationally over the past two weeks, to $2.46.

Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that consumers could see price increases slow as crude-oil costs drop.

The national average is 28 cents per gallon above the price a year ago.

5 killed in house fire in New York

NEW YORK

A fast-moving fire killed five people, including three children, as flames surged through a New York City home on a sunny spring afternoon, leaving authorities to scour for clues about what sparked the deadly flames.

The fire broke out Sunday afternoon shortly after 2:30 p.m., on a street full of single-family homes in the middle-class neighborhood of Queens Village. Television news footage showed flames chewing through the roof of the two-story home and roaring in upstairs rooms of the house as smoke poured from it. The neighborhood is near Belmont Park, which hosts the Belmont Stakes, the final leg in horse racing’s Triple Crown.

Obama meets with at-risk youths ahead of Chicago speech

WASHINGTON

Former President Barack Obama met Sunday with at-risk young men and boys in his hometown of Chicago before his first major post-presidency speech.

The former president spent time at a roundtable with youths from the organization Chicago Create Real Economic Destiny located in the Roseland/Pullman neighborhood in South Side Chicago where Obama started as a community organizer at age 25.

The CRED program provides job skills and employment opportunities for at-risk young adults.

N. Korea detains American citizen

PYONGYANG, North Korea

North Korea has detained a U.S. citizen, officials said Sunday, bringing to three the number of Americans now being held there.

Tony Kim, who also goes by his Korean name, Kim Sang-duk, was detained Saturday, according to Park Chan-mo, the chancellor of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.

Park said Kim, who is 58, taught accounting at the university for about a month. He said Kim was detained by officials as he was trying to leave the country from Pyongyang’s international airport. A university spokesman said he was trying to leave with his wife on a flight to China.

Corpses being sent home for burial after Taliban attack

KABUL, Afghanistan

Dozens of corpses are being sent to various provinces around the country for burial two days after a Taliban attack on a northern Afghanistan army base left at least 100 soldiers and others dead or wounded.

Ministry of Defense spokesman Gen. Daulat Waziri said Sunday that 10 attackers wearing army uniforms passed through two checkpoints at the base in two military vehicles Friday. He said security guards stopped them at a third gate, and that’s when the attackers opened fire. Two suicide bombers ignited their explosives as part of the attack.

Associated Press