Boy Scouts vote on policy toward openly gay boys
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) -- In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday on whether to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization....
Defense releases photos, texts of Trayvon Martin
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- George Zimmerman's defense attorneys on Thursday released information from 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's cellphone that include the teen texting with a friend about fighting and smoking marijuana and photos that show a gun and what appears to be a potted marijuana plant....
2 charged in slayings of 6 on Tenn.-Ala. border
FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities say two men have been charged in six killings, including a toddler and unborn baby, near the Tennessee-Alabama border last fall during a dispute over drug dealing....
Christian Brothers reach deal in US abuse claims
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Christian Brothers have agreed to pay more than $16 million to people who were molested as children by members of the U.S. religious order....
Driver in Ill. van wreck had license suspension
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A New Jersey man behind the wheel of a van that overturned on an Illinois freeway, killing five passengers returning from a California ministry gathering, had his driving privileges suspended last year for administrative reasons, motor vehicle records show....
Part of unused parking garage collapses in Md.
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Fire and rescue officials say a parking garage that was closed to the public has partially collapsed outside a shopping mall in Bethesda, Md., killing one construction worker and severely injuring another man....
Dallas man gets death for drowning 2 sons in creek
DALLAS (AP) -- A father who told two of his sons to pretend they were swimming as he drowned them in a Dallas-area creek was sentenced to death on Thursday....
5 arrested in Conn. $4M jewelry heist, kidnapping
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- Five people have been arrested in the robbery of $4 million in jewelry from a Connecticut store in an elaborate heist that began with the kidnapping of store employees more than 40 miles away....
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....
Body of 2nd child found in deadly Minn. landslide
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Authorities on Thursday recovered the body of a second child killed when a rockslide hit a group of fourth-graders in a St. Paul park a day earlier, and announced that the popular fossil-hunting area would be closed indefinitely....
Thunderstorms slow Oklahoma tornado cleanup
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- A band of thunderstorms battered the Oklahoma City area Thursday, slowing cleanup operations in the suburb where a tornado killed 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes this week....
Iowa kidnapping suspect probed in cousins' deaths
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- The man suspected of kidnapping a still-missing 15-year-old Iowa girl and her friend as they walked home from school is being scrutinized in last year's unsolved kidnapping of two young cousins whose bodies were found 100 miles away....
Pilots in fatal Alaska crash on different signals
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The National Transportation Safety Board says the pilots involved in a midair collision in Alaska that killed a family of four apparently were communicating on different radio frequencies before the crash....
