■ United States
Bodies recovered from ship
Authorities in Key Largo, Florida, on Saturday recovered the bodies of two divers from a sunken US military ship off the Florida Keys. The bodies of Jonathan Walsweer, 38, and Scott Stanley, whose age was not known, had been trapped in the USS Spiegel Grove, authorities said. The body of a third diver, Kevin Coughlin, 51, was recovered on Friday. The men, all from New Jersey, were exploring the wreck on Friday and attempting to venture inside, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said. The USS Spiegel Grove serves as an artificial reef, and is one of the most popular diving spots off the Florida Keys.
■ United States
Target lets Muslims choose
Muslim cashiers at some local Target stores who object to ringing up products that contain pork are being shifted to other positions, the national retailer said on Saturday. Some Muslim cashiers had declined to scan products such as bacon because doing so would conflict with their religious beliefs. They would ask other cashiers to ring up such purchases, or some customers scanned the items themselves. Minneapolis-based Target Corp has offered the cashiers the option of wearing gloves, shifting to other positions or transferring to other stores.
■ United States
Police face shooting charges
Two police officers in New York City face manslaughter charges, and another faces a misdemeanor reckless endangerment charge for their roles in the 50-bullet barrage that killed an unarmed black man on his wedding day, according to a person familiar with the investigation. The officers were indicted on Friday. Michael Oliver and Gescard Isnora, who fired 31 and 11 shots respectively, were facing felony manslaughter charges, according to a person who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the indictment is sealed. The grand jurors were instructed to consider several possible charges against five officers involved in the death of Sean Bell, who was shot while leaving a bachelor party at a nightclub.
■ Mexico
Police arrest commanders
Hundreds of federal police and soldiers surrounded the headquarters of Tabasco's state police and arrested top current and former commanders in a raid apparently linked to an assassination attempt against the state's public safety secretary. The federal officers disarmed police at the state public safety headquarters at Villahermosa, the capital of Tabasco located 655km east of Mexico City, and arrested three top state police commanders there, in addition to two other former commanders detained elsewhere. The Saturday raid -- in which 350 federal police and about 150 soldiers disarmed state police -- followed a March 6 shooting attack in which retired General Francisco Fernandez Solis was wounded and his driver killed.
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