Landing gear issue leads to plane's belly landing
NEWARK, N.J (AP) -- An airline official says a US Airways Express flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble. No injuries were reported....
Kansas City museum raising cash to fly 'Connie'
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The National Airline History Museum is trying to raise $3.2 million to restore its Lockheed Constellation propeller-driven aircraft and recreate multimillionaire aviator Howard Hughes' record-setting cross-country flight in the plane that transformed commercial air travel....
Boston police, city to review bombings response
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) -- Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis says his department and Mayor Thomas Menino's office will conduct two separate investigations into the Boston Marathon bombings response....
Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs
O'BRIEN, Ore. (AP) -- Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out....
FBI executes search warrant in ricin letter case
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are executing a search warrant Saturday in the case of two letters containing the deadly poison ricin that were intercepted this week at a post office in Washington state....
Women sad, angry over sale of nonprofit Ohio home
CINCINNATI (AP) -- For more than 100 years, the Anna Louise Inn in downtown Cincinnati has been a safe, serene place that thousands of struggling women came to know as home....
Probe begins after Conn. commuter trains crash
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- Officials are describing a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut. They say it's fortunate no one was killed....
Parking fees at California state beaches heat up
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Sunbathers flocking to Southern California beaches are used to feeding the meter or paying a parking attendant. Not so along the less developed north coast where it's customary to ditch cars on the shoulder of Highway 1 to surf, swim or picnic....
Police: Boy, 6, kicked by pony on Pa. farm dies
NEW HOLLAND, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities say a 6-year-old boy died after he was kicked in the throat by a pony on a south-central Pennsylvania farm....
Marine daughter seeks dignity for `Devil Dog pups'
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- As she flipped through the cemetery register, Mary Blakely's eyes filled with tears. On line after line, the entry read simply "Baby Boy" or "Baby Girl," followed by a surname and a burial date....
New Orleans says gunfire won't end 'second lines'
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans officials and cultural advocates say the Mother's Day parade shootings that left 20 people injured won't spell the end of second-line parades, the local tradition that celebrates the city and its people....
Will Boy Scouts accept gay youth? Vote is imminent
With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units....
After nearly 30 years, Camp Lejeune coming clean
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) -- Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this unassuming patch of grass and mud. A dirty hose runs from the pipe to an idling truck and into a large tank labeled, "NON-POTABLE WATER."...
