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Vote on gay Scouts comes at emotional moment
The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership will vote Thursday whether to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged ...
Photographer and forester Wayne Miller dies at 94
Photographer Wayne F. Miller, who created a ground-breaking series of portraits chronicling the lives of black Americans in Chicago after serving with ...
37-year-old man charged in Wash. state ricin scare
A man was arrested Wednesday in a case involving last week's discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin. A grand jury ...
1 child dead, 1 missing in Minn. park landslide
A fourth-grade field trip to a Mississippi River park popular with fossil hunters turned deadly Wednesday when gravel saturated by persistent rain ...
Float driver says train seemed still before crash
The driver of a parade float involved in a train wreck that killed four war veterans in West Texas told investigators the oncoming train appeared to ...
Okla. men get video of deadly tornado overhead
Two 19-year-old Oklahoma men who took cover in a cellar during a deadly tornado were able to use their cellphones to get video of the twister as it ...
Boy Scout leaders to vote on lifting gay ban
As protesters made one last stand, the Boy Scouts of America's leadership began a conference Wednesday that was expected to culminate in a ...
10 Things to Know for Thursday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday: 1. FOUR AMERICAN CITIZENS KILLED BY DRONES ...
Man shot to death while questioned in Boston probe
A Chechen immigrant was shot to death by authorities in central Florida early Wednesday after he turned violent while being questioned about his ties ...
More than 50 hurt when Indiana school buses crash
A school bus slammed into the back of another one Wednesday afternoon, setting off a chain-reaction crash involving four buses in northern Indiana, ...
Jury in Arias trial adjourns for day after impasse
Jurors in the Jodi Arias murder trial said Wednesday they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in ...
Okla. medical examiner identifies tornado victims
The Oklahoma medical examiner's office says it has positively identified all 24 victims of Monday's tornado that ripped across the Oklahoma City area.
Man who kidnapped 2 Iowa girls had long record
When Michael Klunder enticed two girls to enter his pickup truck near a rural Iowa school bus stop Monday, it was at least his third kidnapping in a ...
Judge seals affidavit of Maine man in teen's death
Police laid out their case Wednesday against a man accused of killing a 15-year-old girl whose body was found in a wooded area miles from her home, ...
One block: How neighbors saw twister's deadly path
Dan Garland could feel the latch on the shelter door begin to turn in his hand. It was as if the storm outside were a living, breathing thing — and ...
Parents face tough choice when tornadoes bear down
With an ominous storm approaching, the Moore Public School District flashed a text alert to parents: "We are currently holding all students until the ...
10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. DIGGING OUT FROM OKLAHOMA TORNADO Rescuers ...
Susan Powell's dad gets private eye to review file
Police say they've taken their best shot at finding missing Utah mother Susan Powell. Now, her dad is hoping a review of the newly released case file ...
Search for Okla. tornado survivors nearly complete
Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed ...
AP PHOTOS: Devastation, reunion in tornado wake
Residents sift through the remnants of their homes and parents hug children outside a demolished elementary school. Emergency workers tend to the ...
Jodi Arias asks for life term; jury deliberates
Jodi Arias begged jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, saying she "lacked perspective" when she told a local reporter in an interview that she ...
Man charged in death of missing Maine teenager
When 16-year-old Nichole Cable left home May 12, she told her family she was heading out to see someone she'd met on Facebook. The high school ...
Teachers credited with saving students in Okla.
The principal's voice came on over the intercom at Plaza Towers Elementary School: A severe storm was approaching and students were to go to the ...
Face-chewing victim recovering, strumming guitar
A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year appeared Tuesday to be mostly at peace with his disfigurement, strumming ...
AP photographer sees kids pulled from Okla. school
I left the office in Oklahoma City as soon as I saw the tornado warnings on TV. I had photographed about a dozen twisters in the past decade, and knew ...