The Penguins' star says he will play Friday night in Game 2 of the playoff series with the New York Islanders after missing more than a month with a broken jaw. Crosby skated with usual linemates Pascal Dupuis and Chris Kuntiz on Friday morning and expects to be in the lineup as Pittsburgh tries to go up 2-0 in the best-of-seven series.

Crosby underwent a series of dental procedures after taking a shot to the face against New York on March 30. He returned to practice nearly two weeks ago and will wear a protective cage as an additional safety measure.

While Crosby will return, Pittsburgh forward James Neal is likely out after leaving Pittsburgh's 5-0 romp in Game 1 with an undisclosed injury.

Eger said he was watching the Masters from his home in Florida when he replayed the 15th hole to see how Woods had made bogey. Woods hit the pin with his third shot and it caromed back into the water. He dropped from around the same area, hit into 4 feet and made bogey.

"I could see there was a divot not a divot, a divot hole when he played the shot the second time that was not there the first time," Eger told the magazine. "I played it again and again. I could see that the fairway was spotless the first time he played the shot and there was that divot hole, maybe 3 or 4 feet in front of where he played after the drop."

Eger, who now plays on the Champions Tour, said he called Mickey Bradley, one of the PGA Tour rules officials who was working at Augusta National. Bradley was no longer at the course, but he called Fred Ridley, chairman of the Masters competition committee. Bradley also said he sent a copy of Eger's text to Ridley and to Mark Russell, the tour's vice president of competition who serves on the Masters committee.

Woods eventually was given a two-shot penalty for the illegal drop, but he was not disqualified for signing an incorrect scorecard.

Ridley said at the Masters he reviewed the video and didn't see a violation, so he chose not to bring it up to Woods before he signed his card after Friday's round. Woods later said he purposed dropped it a few yards back to avoid hitting the pin, and more questions were brought to Ridley's attention later that night. Ridley met with Woods before the third round and assessed the penalty.

The magazine said Ridley responded by text message to Bradley that Woods' drop was closer than Eger's estimate of 3 to 4 feet and to look at it closer would be "splitting hairs." That's why he chose not to bring it up with Woods before he signed his card.

Ridley cited Rule 33-7 to explain why Woods was not disqualified. The rule says disqualification in exceptional cases can be waived by the committee's discretion. In this case, Ridley said by not talking to Woods about the violation before he signed his card, that was ample reason not to disqualify him.

Also on Tuesday, the USGA and Royal & Ancient released a lengthy review in which they concluded the Masters "reasonably exercised its discretion" under Rule 33-7 to waive disqualification.

The USGA and R&A said Rule 33-7 that allows a committee to waive disqualifications has been around for 60 years. They said they would review the "exceptional situation" involving Woods at the Masters, assess potential implications for other situations and decide whether the rules need to be adjusted.

Eger was director of tournament administration at the PGA Tour for 10 years until joining the USGA as senior director of rules and competition from 1992 to 1995. He returned to the PGA Tour as vice president of competition until 1996. As a player, Eger won the 1988 U.S. Mid-Amateur and the North and South Amateur in 1991. He also played on three Walker Cup teams, reached the semifinals of the U.S. Amateur twice and has four victories on the Champions Tour.

The bureau posted photographs of the three people and said they may be able to provide information to help in the investigation of the attack.

"We need your help to solve this crime," the FBI said in releasing the photographs.

The attack on the Benghazi compound on Sept. 11, 2012, killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

In a posting on the FBI's website, the law enforcement agency urged anyone with information to text or e-mail BenghaziTips(at)ic.fbi.gov or to submit information confidentially at https://forms.fbi.gov/benghazi-en .

Congressional Republicans are continuing to pepper the Obama administration with questions about the attack.

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That is sure to ruffle feathers in Havana, which vehemently denies any links to terrorism. Cuba's government contends its inclusion on the list is a political vendetta by a U.S. government that has kept an economic embargo on the Communist-run island for 51 years.

State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said Washington "has no current plans to remove Cuba" from the list, which is included in the department's annual report on terrorism.

The report was supposed to have been released Tuesday, but has been delayed. Officials say it is likely to come out later in May.

Wednesday was a holiday in Cuba and there was no immediate comment from the government.

There had been speculation among analysts and others that the U.S. might use the report to take Cuba off the list and boost efforts to improve relations.

"It's a missed opportunity. There's no doubt about it," said Philip Peters, a longtime Cuba analyst based in Washington. "It would have been an important step. It would have removed an accusation that the whole world knows is false."

Peters said removing Cuba from the list would have a profound impact on relations between the two countries, but keeping it on meant that a half century of mistrust would continue. He added, however, that the wording used by the State Department left open the possibility that Cuba could be taken off in the future.

Others praised the move. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Cuban-American Republican from Florida, said keeping Cuba on the list "reaffirms that the Castro regime is, and has always been, a supporter and facilitator of terrorism," she said.

She criticized the administration for not putting North Korea back on the list. The reclusive Asian country was taken off in 2008 amid negotiations over nuclear disarmament that ultimately failed.

Cuba is ostensibly included on the list because it has harbored Colombian rebels and Basque militants as well as some aging members of American militant groups from the 1960s and '70s.

Many Cuba watchers had speculated the time might be ripe for Cuba to get off the list, in large part because the Cuban government is now hosting peace talks between Colombian rebels and that country's government, while the Basque militants have announced a permanent cease-fire.

The Colombian and Spanish governments have not criticized Cuba's role in their conflicts in recent years, and both countries routinely vote against U.S. economic sanctions on the island during a yearly vote at the United Nations.

Several U.S. newspapers ran editorials calling for Cuba to be removed from the list. Some argued that the Caribbean nation's inclusion undermined a list that is meant to highlight major international pariahs.

One of the requirements for getting off the list is that countries publicly renounce terrorism. Cuba did that in April when it sent its condolences both to the American people and the U.S. government over the bombings at the Boston marathon.

Cuba said in its message that it "rejects and condemns unequivocally all acts of terrorism, in any place, under any circumstance, and with whatever motivation."

But Ventrell said the annual report is never used to remove or add countries from the state sponsors list. Such decisions can be made at any time during the year, he said, but added that there are no plans to alter Cuba's status in the near future.

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Karlyn Tilley, a spokeswoman for the Golden Fire Department, tells The Denver Post (http://bit.ly/10EYRgW ) the man was climbing with his two adult children while using technical gear at a popular cliff about 20 miles west of Denver. She says he fell at about 1 p.m. Saturday.

About a dozen climbers who were nearby helped with the rescue and brought the man off the mountain within an hour of the fall.

Tilley says the man was unresponsive and not breathing when paramedics arrived.

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‘’ community food packaging event, Sunday, June 2, 2013, at the Brevard Community College Gymnasium.

The Children’s Hunger Project, Second Harvest Food Bank, the United Way of Brevard and the Brevard Hunger Alliance, along with ‘Face of Change’ will work together to “help the needy families of Brevard County,” said Dr. Ross Clevens, MD, FACS, Clevens Center for Facial Cosmetic Surgery.

“We believe no child in Brevard should be hungry,” says Bob Barnes of the Children’s Hunger Project. “The need is real, and with our community’s help, we have the ability to make a difference."

Alarming stats show that 2 out of 5 kids in Brevard County live in households that struggle to put food on the table; 43,000 Brevard school kids (45%) received free and reduced price lunches in 2012 (compared to 22% of U.S. school children overall).

The initial idea for the meal packaging initiative was created after Dr. Ross Clevens, who frequently travels abroad on medical mission trips to perform surgical procedures with Outreach Africa International, realized that there was as much of a need for ‘nutritionally sound meals’ in those regions, as there was for health care.

Subsequently, Clevens incepted ‘Face of Change,’ and the first meal packaging event was held in January of 2011, with‘nutritionally complete’ meals shipped via the United Nations, to Tanzania, Africa, to aid starving women and children.

Last October, a record 750 volunteers joined Dr. Clevens, his staff, and family tofor children and families in Brevard County.With that, nearly 1,000 pounds of food was donated to the Women's Center, The Children's Hunger Project, and The Second Harvest Food Bank. Since that first event, more than 400,000 meals have been packaged by the ‘Face of Change’ organization.

For more information on the upcoming ‘Face of Change’ Food Packaging Event, contact Jodie Hernandez at 321-727-3223, or jodieh(at)drclevens(dot)com.

Jodie Hernandez, Marketing ManagerClevens Center for Facial Cosmetic Surgery321.727.3223

Speaking to the USMNT press corps on Wednesday, US manager Jurgen Klinsmann made it clear that, although Donovan appears back in form after returning from his offseason hiatus, he is not guaranteed a recall to the US team.

There are players clearly ahead of Landon Donovan right now, Klinsmann said. Well see now how he will do in the next couple of weeks and months. Well look at the entire picture. And then make our calls.

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Donovan received glowing reviews for his ,performance in LAsoverlast weekend. Afterward, the 31-year-old suggested that the performance is only a hint of what the USs all-time leading scorer is .

And last month, Donovan declared his desire to againand his understanding that Klinsmann will evaluate him like any other player.

Klinsmann reinforced that notion on Wednesday.

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Its not down to one game when you score one goal, 'Now youre back in the team, he said. Ive always said that I would observe him like we will observe all the other players over the stretch of a period of time.

Even if Donovan were to go on a tear, scoring goals, creating chances, and reiterating his commitment to the US teams qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Klinsmann still seems unsure about recalling him.

There is a chemistry being developed as a group and he hasnt been part of that development most of the time over the last two years, Klinsmann said. Chemistry is very important.

Greg Lalas is editor in chief of MLSsoccer.com.

The family of Jerry Krause, a missionary from Waseca, Minnesota, is sending a representative to Sao Tome in an effort to clarify what happened after the control tower lost contact with the pilot and his Beechcraft 1900C as it was approaching the airport amid a tropical storm on the afternoon of April 7.

Krause was flying from South Africa to Mali with a scheduled refueling stop in Sao Tome.

"His plane was never reported missing by Sao Tome until Monday afternoon after 3 p.m. when my mom contacted the (U.S.) Embassy in Mali," Krause's daughter, Jessica, told The Associated Press on Thursday. She said the first search by boat also didn't start until Monday afternoon, about 24 hours after he went missing.

"It was us having to call them to say 'Please, send someone out to look for my dad.'" Jessica Krause spoke by telephone from Bamako, Mali, where she flew from the U.S. to be with her mother, Gina.

Antonio Lima, president of the Air Accident Investigation Commission at Sao Tome's National Civil Aviation Institute, said control tower officials reported that Krause's plane lost contact with them at 4.13 p.m. (1613 GMT), according to a report provided by the airport management company ENESA.

He told the AP in a telephone interview that the tower reported at least to the local coast guard, which said it received the alert about Krause's plane being missing at 6 p.m., when it was already dark. The coast guard reported sending a vessel to search the sea in the direction from which the plane had been flying in on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday following the Sunday afternoon disappearance, he said.

But they found no trace of the aircraft, not even a sign of fuel on the surface of the ocean, Lima said, quoting the coast guard report.

Krause's family is encouraged by the lack of any debris and believes he is still alive. At its Web site www.findjerry.com , the family says the lack of any wreckage or signals from emergency transmitter beacons is an indicator the plane didn't crash. It has suggested Krause could have been kidnapped by drug traffickers or warlords, though there is no evidence to support that theory.

Lima said finding the plane is "crucial," so that they can recover the black box. "Without that we may never get to the bottom of this," he said.

Lima acknowledged there are plenty of loose ends that he hopes to clear up in his investigation.

He said he was unaware of a claim by the control tower chief that the tower was struck by lightning while it was in radio contact with Krause. Chief Januario Barreto told the AP on Wednesday that by the time generators restored power, soon afterward, the tower had lost contact with Krause.

Lima said "someone is lying" and that he suspected Barreto "is trying to save himself" by telling such a story. Barreto also said traffic controllers immediately contacted the nearest control towers, at Libreville, Gabon, and Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, but they had not heard from Krause.

Jessica Krause said pilot friends at the Sahel Aviation Service for which her father worked in Bamako, Mali, called all airports within flying distance from around 4 p.m. Monday afternoon until 9 p.m. that night.

"Several pilots made the calls trying to figure out where he was as no one had reported that he was missing," she said. "We called them (other airports) 24 hours later and not one of them had any idea what we were talking about when we mentioned a missing aircraft heading to Sao Tome Sunday evening."

Krause's family has filed a missing person report in the U.S. to allow the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board to investigate his disappearance. The board was notified of Krause's case on April 9 and has named a representative to participate in the investigation, said Hilary Fuller Renner, spokeswoman for the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. State Department.

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Barry Hatton reported from Lisbon, Portugal.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - LinkedIn Corp introduced revamped mobile apps on Wednesday that give greater prominence to the stream of information shared by members of the professional social network and will for the first time allow the company to show ads to smartphone users.

LinkedIn will begin showing advertisements within the mobile app's news stream as part of a "small test," said LinkedIn spokeswoman Julie Inouye.

The new app, available for both the Apple Inc iPhone and for Android smartphones, makes it easier for smartphone users to interact with content in LinkedIn's news stream, such as "liking" or commenting on a shared news story.

As consumers increasingly access the Web from mobile devices instead of PCs, Internet companies such as LinkedIn, Facebook Inc and Google Inc are stepping up efforts to better reach mobile users. More than a quarter of LinkedIn's web traffic now comes from its mobile app, up from 15 percent one year ago, according to the company.

LinkedIn has rolled out a number of new features and enhancements to its website in recent months as it tries to entice its 200 million members to spend more time on its website.

Shares of LinkedIn have surged roughly 57 percent this year, closing Wednesday's regular session at $179.97.

(Reporting By Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Bernard Orr)

It is the wrong thing to say. A female commander in uniform warns him: "We'll kill you if you talk to them."

Her boss, armed with a Kalashnikov rifle, gets up from his plastic chair, stares at the boy who had been playing in the grass moments before and declares: "There are no children here."

Despite the rebel's denial, the United Nations children's agency warns that it has "clear evidence of the continuing recruitment and use of children by armed groups" in Central African Republic.

And an Associated Press reporter saw dozens of youths among the ranks of the Seleka fighters in the capital, Bangui, more than three weeks after the insurgents caused the president to flee the country.

They were riding in pickup trucks with other rebels and in some cases on foot patrol, always closely supervised by older, heavily armed fighters.

Child soldiers were even used in some of the heaviest fighting in the battle for Bangui. They directly engaged troops from South Africa in and around the capital from March 22-24, according to South African soldiers who survived the fighting that left 13 of their comrades dead.

"It was only after the firing had stopped that we saw we had killed kids. We did not come here for this . to kill kids," one paratrooper later told the Sunday Times newspaper in South Africa.

"It makes you sick. They were crying calling for help . calling for (their) moms."

South African Defense Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said the soldiers from her country had no choice but to shoot back at the children who were firing at them.

"If our soldiers were attacked by children they were correct to defend themselves," she said, according to the South African Press Association. "If a child shoots at you, are you going to ... blow kisses?"

Those who recruit children under the age of 15 to serve in combat can be indicted on war crimes charges, and the International Criminal Court already has convicted one former Congolese warlord of conscripting young fighters.

Soldiers as young as 10 have been used by rebels not only as combatants but also as sex slaves, porters and cooks, according to the U.N.

"Recruiting children is both morally unacceptable and prohibited under international law," said Souleymane Diabate, UNICEF's country representative. "We have called on the new leadership in CAR to ensure that all children associated with armed groups should be released immediately and protected from further violations. "

Even before the latest rebellion launched in December, UNICEF said more than 2,000 children in Central African Republic were with the myriad of armed groups destabilizing the country's north.

The practice is ingrained here in one of the continent's poorest countries. The new Minister of Youth and Sports in Central African Republic comes from a rebel group that has been accused of conscripting child soldiers.

In a country where life expectancy for men is a mere 49 years and many children are put to work at an early age, the rebels in Central African Republic don't view 14 as too young to carry and shoot an AK-47 automatic assault rifle.

The government's new information minister, Christophe Gazam Betty, insisted that his government believes only about 40 child soldiers are still with the Seleka fighters.

"If there are combatants who are under the age of 18, there is a system in place through the United Nations," he said. "They will be separated and picked up by UNICEF."

UNICEF says the rebel groups who make up the alliance now in power have previously disarmed child soldiers, and the U.N. children's agency is now calling for that process to start immediately.

Some child soldiers can be returned to their families or to other relatives. Others will be placed in foster homes where possible, though some will be given training on living independently, said Shannon Struthers, UNICEF senior adviser for emergencies.

Many will need counseling and help after actively taking part in combat, Struthers said.