Judge promises more openness in Chandra Levy case
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A judge promised more openness Tuesday after months of confidential post-trial proceedings in the case of murdered Washington intern Chandra Levy, disclosing for the first time why a key prosecution witness could be discredited....
AP photographer sees kids pulled from Okla. school
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- 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 that if I didn't get in my car before the funnel cloud hit, it would be too late....
Closing arguments begin in Arias penalty phase
PHOENIX (AP) -- Lawyers for Jodi Arias are making their case to the jury that she should be spared the death penalty for killing her lover five years ago....
Protesters rally over IRS' tea party scrutiny
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Tea party activists waving flags and signs, singing patriotic songs and chanting anti-IRS slogans held rallies outside federal buildings across the country Tuesday to protest the agency's extra scrutiny of conservative groups....
Ex-Goldman exec seeks insider trading retrial
NEW YORK (AP) -- A lawyer for a former board member at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. urged an appeals court panel Tuesday to give his client a new trial, saying a judge had excluded evidence that might have led a jury to acquit him on insider trading charges....
Conn. rail service to return to normal Wednesday
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- After a nearly four-hour commute Tuesday morning, Orlando Cordero was thrilled to hear train service was returning to normal as workers were finishing repair to tracks damaged by last week's train collision in Bridgeport....
Indian guest workers sue company in Miss., Texas
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) -- Dozens of Indian guest workers are suing an Alabama-based marine and fabrication company, claiming it financially exploited them and forced them to live in squalid conditions after bringing them to work at Gulf Coast shipyards after Hurricane Katrina....
Miles and minutes: Okla. tornado by the numbers
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- An exceptionally devastating tornado hit the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday afternoon, twisting through subdivisions and across a highway, leaving debris and confusion in its wake. Some of the storm's effects can be measured in numbers:...
Fire chief says search almost complete in Oklahoma
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- The search for survivors and the dead is nearly complete in the Oklahoma City suburb that was smashed by a mammoth tornado, the fire chief said Tuesday....
Growers making up for lost time in planting corn
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- U.S. farmers who could only watch helplessly this spring as storm after storm left their fields a muddy mess took to their tractors en masse last week and planted a record amount of corn acreage, even in areas where conditions are still far from perfect....
Correction: Missing Mom-Utah story
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) -- In a story May 20 about the Susan Powell investigation, The Associated Press reported erroneously the day that Josh Powell committed suicide. It happened on Feb. 15, 2012....
Gay Fla. teen charged for underage girlfriend
MIAMI (AP) -- An 18-year-old Florida cheerleader is facing felony charges that she had sexual contact with her underage, 14-year-old girlfriend, leading gay rights advocates to say the teen is being unfairly targeted for a common high school romance because she's gay....
Oklahoma twister a top-of-the-scale EF-5
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 mph....
Police: Suspect in abduction of 2 girls found dead
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A massive search was underway Tuesday for a 15-year-old girl abducted from an Iowa bus stop, after authorities said a man who is suspected of taking her and another girl was found dead....
AP PHOTOS: Devastation, reunion in tornado wake
Residents sift through the remnants of their homes and parents embrace children outside a demolished elementary school. Emergency workers tend to the wounded....
