Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb, kills 51

Tim Talley Associated Press

MOORE, Okla. | A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods …

Police close Susan Powell case, offer new details

By PAUL FOY

For the first time, Utah police said Monday they believe Susan Powell's brother-in-law was "heavily involved" in getting rid of her body, even…

Boston cardinal skips event over Irish PM's role

By JAY LINDSAY

Cardinal Sean O'Malley skipped Boston College's commencement Monday to protest its decision to honor Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who back…

Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb, kills 51

By TIM TALLEY

A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying …

Small suburban Oklahoma City hospital damaged

Officials say a tornado hit a small hospital in suburban Oklahoma City, but all the 30 patients inside survived.

File: Josh Powell had affair before wife vanished

Newly released police files say Josh Powell had an affair with a Utah woman just months before his wife disappeared.

More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told

By JULIE PACE and CHARLES BABINGTON

White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had…

Hospitals treat more than 140 after Okla. tornado

Officials at two hospitals say they've been treating more than 140 patients, including about 70 children, since a massive tornado hit suburban…

AP source: Treasury told WH of IRS disclosure plan

By JULIE PACE

A Treasury official says the department told the White House twice that the IRS was preparing to make public its targeting of conservative pol…

3 charged in LA-area bank robbery

A man was charged Monday with a $565,000 bank robbery in which his girlfriend _ an assistant bank manager _ was forced to strap on a fake bomb…

GOP leaders say impeachment talk premature

By STEVE PEOPLES

The Republican National Committee chairman and a leading conservative, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, urged caution Monday for Republican critics ca…

Court decision pending in NYPD stop-and-frisk case

By COLLEEN LONG

A federal judge must now decide whether the nation's largest police force has been unjustly stopping black and Hispanic men under a polarizing…

Lawyers to get Boston bombing suspect prison files

By DENISE LAVOIE

A judge approved a request Monday by Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense attorneys to receive records compiled on him …

More tornado alerts in wake of deadly twister

Tornado warnings have been issued across much of the Midwest, stretching from Texas to Illinois, following a second deadly twister in as many …

Judge tosses ex-BP executive's obstruction charge

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN

A federal judge has dismissed a charge that is the backbone of the case against a former BP executive accused of concealing information from C…

Thousands march in NY to protest gay man's killing

By JENNIFER PELTZ and TOM HAYS

Thousands marched the streets of Manhattan Monday to protest the killing of a gay man allegedly taunted with homophobic slurs _ the most recen…

More than 50 arrested at protest of NC policies

The fourth week of protests led by the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP has ended in the arrests of more than 50 people at the state legislature.

Deadliest US tornadoes since 1900

By The Associated Press

A list of the 10 deadliest tornadoes in the United States since 1900:

Oklahoma twister tracked path of 1999 tornado

By MALCOLM RITTER

Monday's powerful tornado in suburban Oklahoma City loosely followed the path of a killer twister that slammed the region in May 1999.

Conn. lawmakers to seek hearings on derailment

By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN

Commuters navigated a patchwork of cars, trains and buses along Connecticut's shoreline Monday, encountering lengthy delays as authorities pro…

37 killed in Oklahoma tornado; death toll to rise

The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office says 37 people have been killed by a tornado that hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon. Spoke…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD

State medical examiner's office: 37 killed in Oklahoma tornado; death toll expected to rise.

18-foot-8-inch python caught in South Florida

Wildlife officials say a Burmese python nearly 19 feet long has been captured in South Florida.

Gov't presses ahead on another leak case

By PETE YOST

In another case of the Obama administration investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, the government is prosecut…

Saudi with pressure cooker in baggage seeks bond

By DAVID N. GOODMAN

A Saudi man arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after allegedly lying about why he was traveling with a pressure cooker asked to be relea…

Tumblr CEO's mom gushes over billion-dollar baby

By MEGHAN BARR

As a teenager, Tumblr CEO David Karp would canvass the streets of New York City's Upper West Side, offering to build websites for local busine…

Obama vows US support as Myanmar leader visits

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON and NEDRA PICKLER

President Barack Obama on Monday told Myanmar's president during a long-awaited White House meeting that he appreciates the Asian leader's eff…

Alaska volcano's ash prompts flight cancellations

By RACHEL D'ORO

An Alaska volcano eruption is prompting regional airlines to cancel flights to nearby communities, including a town that reported traces of fa…

Twister season starts late, but starts nonetheless

By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS

Deadly tornadoes that have raked communities in Middle America over the past week, including Monday's massive twister that carved a path of de…

Rare island fox rebounds on California islands

By GILLIAN FLACCUS

A rare and tiny island fox is on the verge of making a comeback from near-extinction in the Channel Islands, a rugged and wind-swept chain off…

Omaha task force probes 4 slayings 5 years apart

BARBARA RODRIGUEZ and JOSH FUNK

A federal, state and local task force is investigating the possibility that the killings of a Creighton University professor and his wife may …

House passes bill on lying about military medals

By JIM ABRAMS

People who falsely claim they have received a military medal in order to obtain money or government benefits could face up to a year in jail u…

More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told

Charles Babington and Julie Pace Associated Press

WASHINGTON | White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to sa…

Kentucky teen dies with dog lead on neck

By BRUCE SCHREINER

A Kentucky teenager known as a "jokester" was strangled by a dog lead he put around his neck while playing with friends at the start of summer…

10 make finals of National Geographic Bee

BEN NUCKOLS

Ten young scholars have made it to the finals of the National Geographic Bee, where they'll compete for a $25,000 college scholarship.

Customs seizes elephant meat, dead primate in LA

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Los Angeles have made some unusual seizures, including elephant meat, a dead primate and hundre…

Police: Suspects mistakenly dial 911 during crime

Two California men were in custody on Monday after accidentally dialing 911 on a cellphone before breaking into a car, authorities said.

Proponents hail Vt. assisted suicide bill

Vermont is now the fourth state in the country that allows physician assisted suicide.

White House promises help after Oklahoma tornado

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is assuring Oklahoma's governor that the Obama administration will provide all possible help to t…

Palestinians hold off on UN agency membership

By EDITH M. LEDERER

The Palestinians have done all the legal work necessary to join 63 U.N. agencies, conventions and treaties but haven't applied yet mainly to g…

Senators require fingerprinting at 30 airports

By DAVID ESPO and ERICA WERNER

Senate supporters of far-reaching immigration legislation accepted minor changes in public while negotiating over more sweeping alterations in…

Retailer LL Bean keeping it in the family

By DAVID SHARP

L.L. Bean's grandson Leon Gorman is retiring as chairman of the outdoors retailer after more than a half-century as the company's chairman or …

Questions linger in shooting of NY college student

By FRANK ELTMAN and JIM FITZGERALD

As a grieving family prepared for the funeral of a Hofstra University junior killed by a police officer's bullet during a standoff with an arm…

White House says more farm subsidy cuts needed

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

The Obama administration said Monday it wants to see more cuts to agriculture subsidies in a massive farm bill moving through the Senate this week.

NWS: Okla. tornado had winds up to 200 mph

The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., had wind speeds up to 200 mph.

Idaho couple and Sun Valley land in Twitter tussle

By JOHN MILLER

An Internet entrepreneur and former Wall Street derivatives analyst contends central Idaho's Sun Valley resort and the Twitter Inc. social med…

5 killed in crash in Ill.; van coming from Calif.

By JIM SUHR

A coroner says the five people killed and six hospitalized after a van careened off of a southern Illinois freeway were men returning from a C…

Decision on wolf protections in Lower 48 delayed

Federal wildlife officials are postponing a much-anticipated decision on whether to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states.

NC woman accused of trying to poison 5 with cheese

A North Carolina woman is charged with trying to poison five family members after one of them refused to share some cheese with her.

Arias attorneys will put one witness on: Arias

By BRIAN SKOLOFF

Complaining that Jodi Arias' sensational murder case has become a modern-day "witch trial," her lawyers tried to quit in the middle of the dea…

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