Part of unused parking garage collapses in Md.
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Fire and rescue officials say a parking garage that was closed to visitors has partially collapsed outside a shopping mall in Bethesda, Md., and at least one person is trapped....
Kids from tornado-hit school reunite with teachers
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Students from an elementary school flattened by a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb have reunited with their teachers and collected what belongings could be salvaged from the wrecked building....
New federal prosecutor nominated for Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Obama administration has picked a private attorney and former federal prosecutor to head the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin announced Thursday....
Little known about suspect in Wash. ricin case
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- A 37-year-old who has been charged with threatening to kill a federal judge in a case that involves letters containing the poison ricin (RY'-sin) is a registered sex offender who lives in a rundown apartment building near downtown Spokane....
Latest deadly tornado tests Oklahoma town's mettle
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Oklahoma natives know tornadoes. They've been carried into storm cellars as children and huddled in closets with their own kids....
Body of child found in deadly Minn. landslide
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Authorities on Thursday recovered the body of a boy missing since a rockslide killed a classmate and left two others injured a day earlier at a St. Paul park....
Teen arrested in death of his 2 brothers in Utah
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 homes and tidy lawns, police said....
Officials clarify numbers on Okla. tornado damage
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Authorities have clarified and significantly downgraded the number of homes damaged or destroyed in this week's tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb....
Evacuated residents of ND city to return Friday
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The threat of a possible dam failure on a river near a northeastern North Dakota city eased on Thursday, and officials said most of the 1,300 evacuated residents would be allowed to return to their homes within 24 hours....
$250K bail on hold in infant's faith-healing death
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A Philadelphia couple who believe in faith healing over medicine and have had two sons die of pneumonia will remain in custody on murder charges until a bail hearing Friday....
Defense releases photos, texts of Trayvon Martin
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- George Zimmerman's defense attorneys on Thursday released photos and text messages from 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's cellphone ahead of a hearing that will determine whether they can be used at Zimmerman's murder trial....
Nader loses appeal of '04 ballots in Maine
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- The state's highest court on Thursday dismissed Ralph Nader's lawsuit against Democrats he had accused of trying to keep him off ballots in Maine and other states during his failed presidential run in 2004....
Ohio kidnap case hero gets burgers for life
CLEVELAND (AP) -- The man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for a decade in an Ohio house will never have to pay for another burger in his hometown....
Jury in Jodi Arias trial resumes deliberations
PHOENIX (AP) -- Jurors in Jodi Arias' trial resumed deliberations Thursday, a day after they reported they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or death and the judge instructed them to keep trying....
