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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 2015
Page
4
Former Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino was sentenced to 16 years in prison for multiple manslaughter and abandoning passengers after the shipwreck off Giglio Island that killed 32 people. The Grosseto court found him guilty of causing a shipwreck and other charges.
Veteran CBS News correspondent Bob Simon was killed in a night car crash in New York City. He was 73 and a longtime member of 60 Minutes. Police did not confirm his death pending next of kin notification.
Early hours of negotiations in Minsk bring together Ukraine Russia Germany and France to salvage a ceasefire as heavy fighting flares in Debaltseve. Ukraine reports 19 soldiers killed and 78 wounded amid pro-Russian assaults, with fears of a wider proxy confrontation in Europe.
Nicholas Rasmussen of the National Counterterrorism Center told Congress that more than 20 000 foreign fighters are in Syria with about 3400 Westerners and some 150 Americans suspected of traveling or trying to travel. He noted a 25 percent rise in the last four months and a 70 percent jump from Western countries.
Congress approved legislation to speed the Keystone XL pipeline, with a 270 152 House vote after Senate passage. Obama vowed to veto, and the measure would let Congress bypass the executive review. The pipeline would move oil from Alberta to Nebraska then the Gulf Coast.
In Stephenville Texas a jury heard opening statements in the Eddie Ray Routh murder case. Routh 27 is charged with killing Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield at a Fort Worth area shooting range in February 2013. Prosecutors say the act was knowing and intentional while the defense argues insanity.
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