Correction: Oklahoma Tornado story
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- In some early versions of a story May 22 about damage estimates from the tornado in Moore, Okla., The Associated Press misspelled the name of the city's mayor. He is Glenn Lewis, not Glen....
Judge won't let New Orleans out of police reform
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A federal judge has refused to let the city of New Orleans out of a potentially expensive agreement to reform its troubled police department....
Pilots in fatal Alaska crash on different signals
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The pilots involved in a deadly 2011 midair collision in Alaska apparently were communicating on different radio frequencies before the crash, according to a report by the National Transportation Safety Board, a finding that local aviators say underscores the danger of the mishmash of communication channels and federal guidelines in the area....
Okla. tornado home damage estimated from photos
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Officials in Oklahoma City say an estimate of the number of homes damaged or destroyed by this week's tornado is based in part on an analysis of before-and-after aerial photos....
New rules for labeling meat go into effect in US
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Shoppers in the U.S. will soon have more information about where their meat comes from after new federal labeling rules went into effect Thursday....
Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders - a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of members and donors....
Warrant for rapper Tim Dog, despite death reports
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Lack of a death certificate or of a burial site and sparse obituary information led to talk in hip-hop circles that rapper Tim Dog, who owes thousands of dollars to women he was convicted of swindling, faked his own death in February....
NH woman convicted of child porn gets 40 years
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A woman convicted of sexually exploiting her 14-year-old daughter to produce child pornography was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison by a federal judge who called her conduct "shocking" and "egregious."...
Investigator: Missing Iowa girl's blood found
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Investigators have discovered the blood of a missing 15-year-old Iowa girl on the truck of a registered sex offender suspected of kidnapping her Monday, diminishing the chances of finding her alive, a lead investigator said Thursday....
Parking deck collapses at Md. mall; 1 killed
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- A parking garage partially collapsed Thursday outside a shopping mall in suburban Maryland, and officials said one construction worker died after being trapped under a concrete slab....
New federal prosecutor nominated for Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Obama administration has chosen a private attorney and former federal prosecutor who helped send former Illinois Gov. George Ryan to prison for corruption to head the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago, Illinois' senators announced Thursday....
Distraught mom becomes face of Oklahoma storm
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- A massive tornado was carving its way through town. There was no time to hesitate. LaTisha Garcia had to get to her children....
Authorities: No sign killing of 2 kids was planned
WEST POINT, Utah (AP) -- A teenager was arrested Thursday in the deaths of his two younger brothers, ages 4 and 10, at the family home in a Utah subdivision of new houses and tidy lawns, police said....
Fossil area closed after 2 boys die in Minn. park
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- St. Paul authorities shut down a popular fossil-hunting area in a riverside park Thursday, one day after two children were killed and two others injured by a landslide....
