A suspect has been arrested for the courthouse shooting in Montesano, Wash. Steven D. Kravetz allegedly shot an officer and stabbed a judge in the courthouse before fleeing the scene. His mother, Roberta Dougherty, contacted authorities after hearing reports about the attack, and he was arrested at her home in Olympia. Kravetz reportedly called his mother to get a ride after the incident. The wounded judge said that he had never seen the suspect before the attack.

Since Vladimir Putin won the presidential election in Russia, opposition activists have continued to gather at demonstrations against him, but in far fewer numbers than before. A protest outside the Kremlin on Saturday drew a crowd of only between 10,000 and 20,000 people—a far cry from the 100,000 who were showing up in December.  One reporter tweeted, “My estimate—after seeing our high show—is that between 10 and 20 thousand people were at today’s Moscow protest—big numbers have gone.”

Violence along the Israeli-Gaza frontier escalated again Saturday after Israeli troops killed at least 16 people over the last two days in attacks and airstrikes they say are aimed at weapons-manufacturing sites and at wiping out militants. Palestinians in Gaza fired some 90 rockets into southern Israel on Friday and Saturday, injuring at least eight people, one critically. Half a million people were urged to remain indoors and public events have been cancelled. The violence began Friday when Israeli troops blew up a car in Gaza City, killing two militant leaders who they say were plotting attacks from Egypt.

Rick Santorum won Saturday’s Kansas caucus, while Mitt Romney won Wyoming, in addition to small victories in Guam and Mariana Island. Santorum finished the weekend with a one-delegated edge after taking 33 of the 20 delegates in Kansas; Romney took 6 of the 12 in Wyoming. Romney still has an overwhelming lead in the delegate count, but is facing a series of primaries in Southern states where he is expected to fare poorly.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at the third annual Women in the World Summit on Saturday that women must “reject any efforts to marginalize any one of us.” “We must be fearless,” said Clinton, who was the final speaker at the conference. Clinton was introduced by Meryl Streep, who held up her Oscar and said, “This is what you get for playing a world leader, but this is what you get when you are one,” as Clinton walked on stage. Clinton recapped the three-day summit, which included powerful panels led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee, former secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and testimony read by actress Angelina Jolie. Streep said that she felt the summit was like being “plugged into an energy source: it’s bigger than oil, coal—it’s girls!”

U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday in Damascus in an effort to get the Syrian regime to end its yearlong crackdown on dissidents. But Assad told Annan that dialogue with the opposition will not work when "armed terrorist groups" are operating. On the other end, the head of the opposition Syrian National Council has already turned down Annan's request for talks with Assad, similarly saying that negotiations with a "murderous" government are pointless. But a member of the opposition is due to meet Annan in the afternoon. Activists say at least 12 people were killed today as government forces continued attacks across the country, including in the northern province of Idlib.

One year ago Sunday, an earthquake and tsunami killed thousands in northeastern Japan and set off a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima atomic plant. Japan will hold a minute of silence and prayers to commemorate the nearly 16,000 victims, with 3,300 unaccounted for by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake. “I do cry every little bit every once in a while, but my true fears will come later, when I have time,” said Koyu Morishita, 54, whose father died after the earthquake and tsunami. A “bell of hope” will toll at the port city of Ofunato, and mourners will set out to sea to release lanterns. The country is still grappling with the toll as the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima plant shattered public trust in nuclear power and Japanese leaders.

A British hacker affiliated with the collective Anonymous revealed in court Saturday that he had planned to release the names and details of women who had abortions after he stole some 10,000 database records from the provider British Pregnancy Advisory Service. James Jeffery, 27, confessed to his crimes and admitted to two offenses under the Computer Misuse Act in a West Midlands court. He was arrested Friday after boasting of his crime on Twitter. He had planned to release the data, which included personal details of women who registered with BPAS, but had a change of heart because he thought it would be wrong.

Fourteen “emo” youths have been stoned to death in Baghdad over the past three weeks. The murders seem to be the work of Shiite militants who have launched a campaign against the young people who wear Western-style “emo” clothes. Leaflets distributed in heavily Shiite areas around the city listed the names of young people targeted for killings, along with threatening messages. One such message read, “We strongly warn you, to all the obscene males and females, if you will not leave this filthy work within four days the punishment of God will descend upon you at the hand of the Mujahideen.” Just last month Iraq’s interior ministry released a statement that described the “emo” culture as “Satanism.”

Dennis Quaid’s wife has filed for divorce after seven years, claiming that their marriage has “become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities.” Kimberly Buffington Quaid filed a petition in Texas, where the couple has a house, on March 2. The petition was confirmed Friday by Quaid’s publicists, who said a “satisfactory settlement is being worked out.” According to the divorce filings, Buffington Quaid believes she and Quaid will be able to enter a written agreement providing for the “possession of, access to and in support” of their four-year-old twins. Their twins nearly died when they were 10 days old and accidentally given an overdose of the drug herparin at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Since then, Quaid narrated a documentary called Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.

The first stop on Peyton Manning’s free-agent tour: the Denver Broncos, home of Tim Tebow. Manning got the star treatment Friday when he visited the NFL team’s digs and hung out with Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway, two days after being released by the Indianapolis Colts and embarking on finding a new team to play for. Whether the Broncos will dump Tebow, who led the team last season to improbable comebacks time after time—and into the playoffs—is up in the air, but Manning’s visit has generated a lot of buzz. Tebow better start praying.

Rick Santorum looks set for a comfortable lead in the state of Kansas, which holds its caucuses Saturday with 40 delegates up for grabs. "We chased all the candidates out of Kansas!" Santorum said Friday. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have skipped the state to focus on Alabama and Mississippi, with their primaries on Tuesday. Santorum is expected to win the state even though Bob Dole, the former GOP presidential candidate from Kansas, endorsed Romney earlier this week.

Walt Disney Studios' sci-fi adventure flick John Carter, about an Earthling who finds himself transported from the Civil War–era American West to Mars, is expected to be a big-budget bust, Wall Street analysts say, even though the film has only been in theaters since Friday. The film, which cost an astronomical $250 million to make, may rake in a meager $26 million to $28 million on its opening weekend, according to some estimates. With such a big project going bust, some analysts questioned the hierarchy at Disney that let the film go forward, with one remarking in a report that “it might be best if Walt Disney Co. avoided movies about Mars altogether.”

About time. Spring is coming, so set your clock forward by an hour overnight so you don’t wake up late Sunday morning. Daylight saving time arrives at 2 a.m. Sunday, so most everyone in the country will lose an hour of sleep. Islands like Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Northern Marianas won’t have to make the switch—they stay on standard time.

A debate over plans to merge New Jersey’s Rowan University with Rutgers University, both state schools, grew heated yesterday and ended with Gov. Chris Christie calling a Rutgers student and Navy veteran an “idiot.” William Brown, a veteran of the Iraq War who unsuccessfully ran for state Assembly last year as a Democrat, interrupted Christie when the governor was explaining his plan, leading Christie to strike back. “Let me tell you something: After you graduate from law school, you conduct yourself like that in a courtroom, your rear end is going to be thrown in jail, idiot,” Christie fumed. Christie had Brown escorted out by police.

A man stabbed a judge and shot a detective in a courthouse in Washington state Friday and fled before he could be apprehended. A search is on now for the man, who carried out his assault in the small town of Montesano, 70 miles from Seattle. The assailant, identified as Michael Thomas, was being sought by police and SWAT teams Friday evening, and businesses and schools in the town had locked down. Thomas allegedly entered the courthouse with a briefcase in hand, then attacked a female detective by shooting and stabbing her, then stabbed superior court Judge Dave Edwards in the neck. Both victims were said to be in stable condition.

Mitt Romney picked up nine delegates each from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands on Saturday after winning the caucuses there unanimously. Romney had no time for a little beach and sunshine visit as he is busy courting voters in Alabama and Mississippi, which hold their primaries Tuesday. But his son, Matt, got a sweet trip out of it, flying to the islands this week seeking the delegates' support. Fun was had by all.

Will Pootie Tang take his place? Louis C.K. has abruptly pulled out of performing at the Radio & Television Correspondents Association dinner on June 8. The reason? His agent said he "just didn't want to do it anymore." The comic was an edgy choice for a dinner that usually hosts the president or vice president and several members of Congress. Fox News's Greta Van Susteren blogged Thursday that she would boycott him for his "filthy language about women." And she probably hasn't even seen Chewed Up. No word on who'll replace him.

Some 20,000 people are holding fresh protests in Moscow against Vladimir Putin, who won a disputed election last weekend that’ll see him returned to the presidency for a third time. The opposition allege fraud, but the turnout for the rally was not as high as expected because organizers said they had failed to stop Putin securing another term. Observers say the election was skewed in Putin’s favor but many foreign states have accepted his victory—President Obama called Putin on Friday to congratulate him.

A day after it secured the biggest debt restructuring in history to avert immediate default, Greece is hoping to get $1.3 billion in stimulus financing from the European Investment Bank this year, a top Greek economic official said Saturday. "I believe in the end it will happen," said Gikas Hardouvelis, top economic adviser to Prime Minister Lucas Papademos. Friday's debt restructuring already opens the way for a $170 billion bailout from the European Union, and Greece is looking for more ways to kickstart its economy.

President Obama used his weekly radio address Saturday to hit back at Republican critics who say his energy policy is causing rising gasoline prices that look to be heading toward $4 per gallon. "We can't just drill our way to lower gas prices—not when we consume 20 percent of the world's oil," Obama said, underscoring the importance of developing alternative energy and increasing fuel efficiency. GOP candidates as well as North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple have accused Obama to blocking oil and gas projects like the Keystone XL pipeline, but Obama accused the Republicans of a "bumper sticker" approach to energy.

Rep. Jay Inslee, a Democrat from Washington state, is expected to resign from Congress to focus on his campaign for governor, according to the National Journal. Inslee’s bid has been reportedly hindered by his time in Washington, D.C. He is running against Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna to replace Gov. Christine Gregoire. Washington hasn’t had a Republican governor since 1980, but McKenna has run an impressive campaign so far.