The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission marker for the banana split is displayed at the municipal offices in Latrobe, Pa., Wednesday. A weekend of festivities are planned to surround the dedication of the marker that acknowledges apprentice pharmacist David E. Strickler for inventing the banana split there in 1904.Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
- NSA REVEALS DATA-MINING MISTAKES
The agency says it mended its ways after scooping up tens of thousands of emails and other communications with no connection to terrorism.
- CAMPAIGN TO FREE MANNING TAKES A NEW TURN
Lawyers will ask President Obama to pardon the convicted leaker who was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
- U.S., BRITAIN AND FRANCE SEEK PROBE OF SYRIAN CHEMICAL ATTACK
The three nations want a team of U.N. experts already in Syria to be granted access to investigate the site.
- FOR MUBARAK, LIMITED FREEDOM
The deposed autocrat will be freed from jail – but put under house arrest, Egypt’s military government decrees.