International
Magnitude six earthquake hits eastern Turkey, killed at least 57OKCULAR VILLAGE, Turkey (AP) — A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 struck eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 57 people as it knocked down stone or mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages, the government said.Hundreds slaughtered in Nigeria religous violenceDOGO NAHAWA, Nigeria (AP) — The killers showed no mercy: They didn’t spare women and children, or even a 4-day-old baby, from their machetes. On Monday, Nigerian women wailed in the streets as a dump truck carried dozens of bodies past burned-out homes toward a mass grave.Rubber-gloved workers pulled ever-smaller bodies from the dump truck and tossed them into the mass grave. A crowd began singing a hymn with the refrain, “Jesus said I am the way to heaven.” 
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National
Oldest person in US, second-oldest in world dies in NH at age 114WESTMORELAND, N.H. (AP) — Mary Josephine Ray, the New Hampshire woman who was certified as the oldest person living in the U.S., has died at age 114 years, 294 days.She died Sunday at a nursing home in Westmoreland but was active until about two weeks before her death, her granddaughter Katherine Ray said.”She just enjoyed life. She never thought of dying at all,” Katherine Ray said. “She was planning for her birthday party.”—–State/LocalChampionship video means another party in Big EasyNEW ORLEANS (AP) — One month after the New Orleans Saints’ first Super Bowl championship, the team and city were holding yet another party.It took 43 years for the Saints to win their first title, and four weeks for NFL Films and Warner Home Video to complete a commemorative video recapping the best season in franchise history.”The tears will be running out of my eyes for sure,” Brees said as he walked the red carpet, a throng of fans screaming his name, at the video’s premiere Monday night. “So much of it has been about reflecting back on the journey and the moments that I’ve tried to enjoy. … That’s what tonight is, too. It’s a reflection on everything we’ve been through, especially this season, and the guys that you did it with, and obviously our fans, the Who Dat nation. We accomplished something really special and we did it together.”—–Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]