Russian President Vladimir Putin, opening the World Hockey Junior Championship in Sochi, which started with a match between Russia and America, said: “In the country, from which the team of our current rivals came, two terrible tragedies that claimed human victims happened recently: an act of terrorism in Boston and an explosion at a factory in Texas. In both cases there are victims.

USA Today did not turn a profit until 1993, four years after Mr. Neuharth had retired and after the newspaper had begun shifting to more serious, and often lengthier, news coverage, partly to counter the paper’s reputation as a lightweight but also to draw more readers and advertisers, which it did.

The Mennonite Children Choir of Lancaster performing before early visitors to the Central Market on Friday.

A ruling released on April 17 by President Judge Joseph Madenspacher can be construed as a victory for the office of the County Treasurer and thirteen local hotels in protecting the confidentiality of most of the information contained on the monthly reports from hoteliers concerning revenue and taxes due on hotel room sales revenue.

“We are not looking for someone who is just going to rubberstamp Gov. Corbett’s issues. So we came up with a reasonable list of Republican judges who were elected, who were approved at some stage by Republican committees, because it is not responsible to keep a spot vacant on the court for more than two years.

USA TODAY: One of the suspects wanted in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing was shot and killed by police and a manhunt was underway for the second suspect, authorities said Friday.

Schwank’s legislation, along with a similar bill introduced in the House by Rep. Mike Sturla, a Lancaster Democrat, would apply only to municipalities with populations of 5,000 or greater that do not provide for their own law-enforcement patrols.

NEW YORK TIMES Op-Ed: SENATORS say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. The fear that those children who survived the massacre must feel every time they remember their teachers stacking them into closets and bathrooms…

Three people being killed and scores of others seriously injured is news. But at what point does the time devoted to such occurrences by the media transition into show business and crowd out reporting on other important matters concerning the wellbeing of the nation? Has a tragedy at the marathon become a media circus?

The standardized testing allows parents to gauge their own child’s achievements or lack thereof. The test results also are important to school districts who use them as internal barometers and to determine placement in the federal benchmark known as “adequate yearly progress.”

NEW YORK TIMES: A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that “it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture” and that the nation’s highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it.

A new AAA reports shows, on average, the cost of driving 15,000 miles a year rose 1.17 cents to 60.8 cents per mile, or $9,122 per year. Overall, that’s a roughly 2% increase on the cost of operating a car last year.