Authorities: Small plane crashes in Louisiana, killing 5
One of the five victims in a deadly Louisiana plane crash is a sports reporter and daughter-in-law of a Louisiana State University football coach.  Steven Ensminger Jr. says his wife, Carley McCord, died in the crash in Louisiana on Saturday on the way to a college football playoff game in Atlanta. Ensminger’s father is the offensive coordinator for Louisiana State University’s football team. The team was scheduled to play Oklahoma in Atlanta on Saturday afternoon.

Hundreds of accused clergy left off church’s sex abuse lists
By CLAUDIA LAUER and MEGHAN HOYER Associated Press
The Associated Press has found that more than 900 clergy members accused of child sexual abuse are missing from the lists of credibly accused priests released by the Roman Catholic dioceses and religious orders. Victims advocates had long criticized the church for not making public the names of credibly accused priests. Now, despite the release of nearly 5,300 names,  critics say the lists are still far from complete. The AP found that more than a hundred of the former clergy members not named on any list had been charged with sexual crimes, including rape, solicitation and receiving or viewing child pornography.

Texas sheriff: 2 dead, multiple shot in music video ‘ambush’
A Texas sheriff says two people were shot and killed and multiple others wounded when a group filming a music video was “ambushed.” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez says at least eight people were shot Friday night in a residential neighborhood north of Houston. He said a group had been filming a music video in a parking lot when they were ambushed by “individuals in cars and/or foot that fired shots.” No suspect information was immediately available. The sheriff says the injuries among the wounded varied, and some were being treated for “very serious injuries.”

Kazakh officials investigating causes of deadly plane crash
Kazakh officials are considering technical failure, pilot error and weather conditions as possible causes for the plane crash in which 12 people were killed and more than 50 injured. A Bek Air jet with 98 people on board crashed Friday morning, several minutes after departing from the airport of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city and former capital. Police are analyzing documents, audio and video recordings related to the crash, questioning officials and passengers and inspecting the airport’s infrastructure. The Ministry of Industry also said Saturday that the airplane’s flight recorders will be passed on to the Interstate Aviation Committee in Moscow for analysis.

Lawyers fight death penalty for synagogue shooting suspect
Lawyers for the suspect in the synagogue shooting that killed 11 people in Pittsburgh are challenging the potential death penalty as unconstitutional. Lawyers for Robert Bowers say in court papers filed this week that capital punishment violates the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause and the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Defense lawyer Judy Clarke has made similar arguments in other high-profile capital cases. Clarke says she’s tried to negotiate a life sentence for Bowers but has been rebuffed by prosecutors. No trial date has been set.

DJ Don Imus, made and betrayed by his mouth, dead at 79
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer
Disc jockey Don Imus, whose career was made and then undone by his acid tongue during a decades-long rise to radio stardom and an abrupt public plunge after a nationally broadcast racial slur, has died. He was 79. Imus survived drug and alcohol woes, a raunchy appearance before President Clinton and several firings during his long career behind the microphone. But he was vilified and eventually fired after describing a women’s college basketball team as “nappy headed hos.”

UNDATED (AP) — A crash on a Pennsylvania highway has killed an 81-year-old man and his adult daughter. The crash on Route 422 in Heidelberg occurred around 12:30 p.m. Thursday, when a car driven by Richard Raihl was trying to turn onto Route 422 West. Authorities say the vehicle and a pickup truck collided, killing Raihl and his 51-year-old daughter, Stephanie Raihl. The truck driver declined medical attention. That person’s name was not released. The cause of the crash remains under investigation, and no charges have been filed so far.