World/nation briefs

MLK parade bomber sentenced to 32 yearsA man who admitted to planting a bomb along a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route in Spokane was sentenced to 32 years in prison. Kevin Harpham, 37, said he did not intend to injure people with the bomb he placed in downtown Spokane. Rather, he intended for the shrapnel to hit the side of a building as a protest against multiculturalism, Harpham said.

Witness: WikiLeaks suspect confessedA key prosecution witness told a military judge at Fort Meade that an emotionally distraught Army Pfc. Bradley Manning confessed to him in Internet chats to pilfering a vast trove of U.S. military and diplomatic secrets and passing them to the WikiLeaks website. Adrian Lamo said he was so alarmed by his online conversations with Manning over five days in May 2010 that he felt compelled to alert law enforcement, prompting Manning's arrest several days later. "This person was admitting to acts so egregious that it required that response," Lamo said. He said he met Manning in the digital world after the intelligence analyst sent him an e-mail introducing himself.

Storm weakens as it heads east and northA deadly storm that halted travel throughout the Great Plains weakened as it headed east into Missouri and toward the Great Lakes. Authorities still were reporting snow drifts of up to 10 feet high in southeast Colorado, and Texas officials warned drivers to stay off the road in the Panhandle.

Death toll in floods surpasses 950The death toll from flooding reached 957 after bodies swept to sea were retrieved. The city of Cagayan de Oro suffered the highest death toll at 579, while 279 were killed in the nearby city of Iligan.

More residents protest developmentResidents revolted against development plans in another town in Guangdong Province, redoubling the challenge to the Communist Party in China's most affluent region. The uprising involved up to 30,000 people protesting plans for a coal-fired power plant in the seaside town of Haimen. Residents stormed government offices and blocked a highway. Police reacted harshly.