Syria Sets Date for Presidential Election: The parliament speaker has announced that the election will be held on June 3. President Bashar al-Assad is expected to seek a third term. Says CBS News, "The announcement came just hours after a pair of mortar shells struck some 320 feet from the parliament building in central Damascus, killing five people, according to state TV." Meanwhile, French president François Hollande is accusing Assad of continuing to use chemical weapons in recent days.

Joe Biden Heads to Kiev: Where separatists are still not standing down.

"Unforgivable, Murderous Behavior": That's what South Korean president Park Geun-hye called actions by the captain and some crew of the capsized passenger ferry Sewol. More than 200 people are still missing in the disaster, including many high-school students. Officials now say the accident likely happened after the ship took a turn at too high a speed.

The 2014 Boston Marathon: Happens today.

RIP, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter: He was 76. From the New York Times obituary:

With a formal education that ended in the eighth grade in a reform school, Mr. Carter survived imprisonment and frequent solitary confinement by becoming a voracious reader of law books and volumes of philosophy, history, metaphysics and religion. During his bleakest moments, he expressed confidence that he would one day be proved innocent.

“They can incarcerate my body but never my mind,” he told The New York Times in 1977, shortly after his second conviction.

Man Stabbed to Death in Everett This Morning: After apparently stepping in to protect a woman in a domestic violence incident.

Teen Survives Flight from California to Hawaii Hiding in the Plane's Wheel Well: Despite the plane's ascent to 38,000 feet and a five-hour flight, "when the flight landed in Maui, the boy hopped down from the wheel well and started wandering around the airport grounds."

Steve Jobs's Personality: Now potentially an issue in a class-action lawsuit.

For Chrissake, Put Down Your Phone: And make some eye contact with your baby.

It's Pot Lottery Week Here in Washington: No, it's not one where you can win pot, it's the lottery for one of 334 store licenses.

Were You on Capitol Hill Saturday Night? Did you see this out-of-control BMW drive down the sidewalk?

Speaking of Out-of-Control Cars: A car apparently drove through the front of the downtown Target early this morning. Police don't have much info yet.