CAIRO

Egypt’s rulers face backlash over Americans’ departure

Egypt’s ruling generals faced a backlash Friday over the departure of Americans on trial on charges that their pro-democracy groups fomented unrest, with the powerful Muslim Brotherhood and others accusing military leaders of bowing to pressure from Washington.

Six of the Americans left Egypt a day earlier after a travel ban against them was lifted, easing a heated diplomatic dispute over the case between longtime allies Cairo and Washington.

The Muslim Brotherhood, which controls nearly half of seats in parliament and has emerged as the strongest political group since President Hosni Mubarak’s fall, said there was “clear interference” in Egypt’s domestic affairs and in the work of the judiciary.

MIAMI

Student’s deportation order sparks high school protest

Students protested Friday in support of a Miami high school valedictorian who has been ordered by a federal immigration judge to leave the country.

A judge denied Daniela Pelaez’s request for relief from deportation Monday. Her attorney plans an appeal.

Pelaez came to the United States from Colombia with her family when she was 4. She considers herself American and has applied to several Ivy League universities and wants to become a heart surgeon. “I just want to pursue the American dream like any other child,” she said..

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio

Wrong-way driver crashes, killing three sorority sisters

A wrong-way driver slammed head-on Friday into a car full of sorority sisters who were heading to an airport for a spring break trip to the Dominican Republic, killing herself and three of the young women in the car she hit.

The car carrying the three Alpha Xi Delta members, ages 19 to 21, and two other sorority sisters hit the wrong-way vehicle overnight on Interstate 75 south of Toledo, just miles from Bowling Green State University, which they all attended. The two survivors were seriously injured.

Sixteen sorority sisters were heading to the airport in different cars as they tried to make a 5:30 a.m. flight, a friend said. Another vehicle carrying five of the students narrowly avoided the wrong-way driver, Ohio state troopers said.

The wrong-way driver, Winifred D. Lein, 69, of Perrysburg, Ohio, was traveling alone and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. Investigators are looking into why she was driving on the wrong side of the divided highway, and 911 and police radio traffic indicate she had been heading the wrong direction for at least seven miles.

— From news service reports