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NEW YORK (AP) , To see what Facebook has become, look no further than the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer. Sometime last year, people began sharing tongue-in-cheek online reviews of the banana-shaped piece of yellow plastic with their Facebook friends. Then those friends shared with their friends.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) , Authorities say an elusive survivalist fired shots at officers in a helicopter before surrendering in the central Utah mountains. The Emery County Sheriff's Office says 45-year-old Troy James Knapp was arrested Tuesday morning near Ferron Reservoir in central Utah. Authorities did not say if the aircraft was struck.

WASHINGTON (AP) , Michelle Obama said Tuesday that a new movie chronicling Jackie Robinson's rise through Major League Baseball, including the racial discrimination he endured while breaking the sport's color barrier in the 1940s, left her and the president "visibly, physically moved" after they saw it over the weekend.

DENVER (AP) , The ex-convict suspected in the killing of Colorado's prison chief slipped off his electronic monitoring bracelet and escaped before anyone noticed he was missing , all after he was mistakenly released from prison four years early.

DETROIT (AP) , America is getting back to work, and it needs pickup trucks. Strong truck demand in March drove U.S. auto sales to their highest monthly total since August 2007, as everyone from oil and gas producers to local home builders raced to replace the aging trucks they held onto during the recession.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) , The sport of tearing into trails in backwoods in trucks and all-terrain vehicles, known among enthusiasts as "muddin'," is a part of life for many amateur daredevils who love to get dirty in rural West Virginia, just as it was for "BUCKWILD" cast member Shain Gandee.

DENVER , When President Obama arrives here Wednesday to cheer the state's newly passed gun control laws, don't expect Colorado's county sheriffs to join in the celebration. At a forum Tuesday, Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith blamed the state's gun control agenda in part on the White House and characterized this week's presidential visit as a "victory dance."

LAS VEGAS (AP) , A rural Nevada judge set bail at $3.5 million on Monday for a California teenager jailed in Las Vegas on felony drunk driving charges in a weekend crash that killed five family members on an interstate northeast of Las Vegas.

ASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) , An ex-convict charged with killing his father at an Easter Sunday church service in Ohio made rambling comments during an appearance in court and the prosecutor requested a psychiatric evaluation.

NEW YORK (AP) , J.C. Penney is honing in on its home department as part of a bigger plan to turn its stores into mini-malls of sorts. The struggling department-store chain is unveiling revamped home areas within its stores that feature 20 boutiques that highlight 50 new brands.

The Student Government Association at Johns Hopkins University has denied a pro-life group official club status at the Baltimore school for fear the group will make students feel uncomfortable. "They...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. , Prosecutors said Monday they will seek the death penalty for James Eagan Holmes, the accused shooter in the deadly Aurora, Colo. theater massacre last summer. Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler said he reached the decision after speaking with hundreds of victims and relatives of those killed in the July 20 shooting, which left 12 dead and 58 injured.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) , Prosecutors on Monday said they will seek the death penalty against the man accused in last year's movie theater attack that killed 12, injured 70 and spurred new gun control laws in Colorado.

Truckloads of debris pulled from the site of the World Trade Center will be sifted for remains, New York City's chief medical examiner said. The process will last about 10 weeks, Ynet News reported. And not all the families are happy.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) , Authorities say they've broken up a major dogfighting ring after a raid in Mississippi snagged people from around the country as part of a monthslong, nationwide investigation. David Murphy is an investigator with the Benton County Sheriff's Office in north Mississippi.