Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb, kills 51

CORRECTS MONTH TO MAY This frame grab provided by KWTV shows a tornado in Oklahoma City Monday, May 20, 2013. Television footage shows flattened buildings and fires after a mile-wide tornado moved through the Oklahoma City area. (AP Photo/Courtesy KWTV)

Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb, kills 37

CORRECTS MONTH TO MAY This frame grab provided by KWTV shows a tornado in Oklahoma City Monday, May 20, 2013. Television footage shows flattened buildings and fires after a mile-wide tornado moved through the Oklahoma City area. (AP Photo/Courtesy KWTV)

NYPD messages to Muslim informant: 'Get pictures'

This handout photo provided by Jamill Noorata, taken May 3, 2012, shows Shamiur Rahman, left, sitting with Siraj Wahhaj at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, New York. The New York Police Department defends its surveillance of Muslims as narrowly focused in a new court filing…

Hezbollah pulled more deeply into Syria civil war

In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises after explosives were dropped by a Syrian government warplane in Yabroud near Damascus, Syria, Monday May 20, 2013. The Syrian regime cl…

Hezbollah pulled more deeply into Syria civil war

In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, explosives are dropped by a Syrian government warplane in Yabroud near Damascus, Syria, Monday May 20, 2013. The Syrian regime claims there is no ci…

Hezbollah pulled more deeply into Syria civil war

In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke and fire rises after explosives were dropped by a Syrian government warplane in Yabroud near Damascus, Syria, Monday May 20, 2013. The Syrian …

NYPD messages to Muslim informant: 'Get pictures'

This handout photo provided by Jamill Noorata, taken May 3, 2012, shows Shamiur Rahman, left, sitting with Siraj Wahhaj at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, New York. The New York Police Department defends its surveillance of Muslims as narrowly focused in a new court filing…

NY town eyes limit on use of Plum Island

FILE - This undated aerial file photo provided by the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows Plum Island, N.Y., off the coast of Long Island. Selling an island where scientists have experimented with infectious animal diseases since the dawn of the Cold War…

Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina

FILE - In this June 25, 1978 file photo, Argentina's President Jorge Rafael Videla, center, gives a thumbs up to Osvaldo Ardiles, right, and captain Daniel Passarella, left, holding the World Cup, following the World Cup Final between Argentina and Netherlands in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Arg…

Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges

This Saturday, May 11, 2013 photo, provided by the lawyer of Dimyana Abdel-Nour, shows Abdel-Nour, 24, a Coptic Christian teacher, in a courtroom in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, Egypt. Abdel-Nour, went from classroom to jail after lawyers and parents of three students filed a lawsuit…

Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges

This undated photo provided by the lawyer of Dimyana Abdel-Nour, shows Abdel-Nour, 24, a Coptic Christian teacher in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor in a family photo. Abdel-Nour, went from classroom to jail after lawyers and parents of three students filed a lawsuit accusing the teacher…

Flesh-eating disease victim gets prosthetic hands

FILE - In this Saturday, June 23 2012 file photo provided by the Copeland family, Aimee Copeland, left, poses with her parents, Andy and Donna Copeland, outside Doctors Hospital in Augusta, Ga. Aimee Copeland, who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating …

NM mom: I followed instincts in chasing abductor

This undated photo provided by the Albuquerque police department shows David Hernandez, 31, who was arrested Thursday, May 16, 2013 on kidnapping charges. Police say a mother whose 4-year-old daughter was being abducted from an Albuquerque, N.M. apartment complex chased Hernandez on Wednesda…

Log: Cleveland suspect passes time pacing, staring

FILE - This undated file photo provided by Cuyahoga County Jail shows Ariel Castro. Cleveland officials are trying to keep Castro's house, where three women were imprisoned for a decade, intact until his trial is concluded. (AP Photo/Cuyahoga County Jail, File)

Review: Toshiba brings high-res screen to Windows

This April 16, 2013 photo provided by Toshiba shows the Toshiba Kirabook, a newly-released laptop line with a Retina-level display. (AP Photo/Toshiba)

Arrests in New Orleans parade shootings cheered

In this New Orleans Police image provided by WVUE Fox 8 News, Akein Scott is taken into custody Wednesday, May 15, 2013 in New Orleans. Akein and Shawn Scott, two brothers with a history of drug arrests and ties to a neighborhood gang, each face 20 counts of attempted second-degree murder in…

Cancer, rape fraud case bowls over Mich. community

This photo released by the Sanilac County Sheriff’s Department shows Sara Ylen, a Michigan mother of two young boys who said she was battling cancer just a few years after a man was convicted of her rape. The 38-year-old is charged with fraud, false pretenses and using a computer to commit a…

'Mother's instincts': NM woman chased abductor

This undated photo provided by the Albuquerque police department shows David Hernandez, 31, who was arrested Thursday, May 16, 2013 on kidnapping charges. Police say a mother whose 4-year-old daughter was being abducted from an Albuquerque, N.M. apartment complex chased Hernandez on Wednesda…

Even after Cold War, US-Russia spy game continues

This photo provided by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) shows Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, at the FSB offices in Moscow, early Tuesday, May 14, 2013. The embarrassing arrest of the suspected CIA officer in Moscow is the latest reminder that, even aft…

Even after Cold War, US-Russia spy game continues

In this handout photo provided by the FSB, acronym for Russian Federal Security Service, a man claimed by FSB to be Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, is detained in Moscow, early Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Russia's security services say they have caught a U.S. diplomat…

Even after Cold War, US-Russia spy game continues

FILE - In this June 8, 2012, file photo, Russian ex-spy Anna Chapman, center, walks a Turkish catwalk flanked by two men posing as secret service agents at a fashion show in Antalya, Turkey. The embarrassing arrest of a suspected CIA officer in Moscow is the latest reminder that, even after …

Russian and American spies square off

FILE - In this June 8, 2012, file photo, Russian ex-spy Anna Chapman, center, walks a Turkish catwalk flanked by two men posing as secret service agents at a fashion show in Antalya, Turkey. The embarrassing arrest of a suspected CIA officer in Moscow is the latest reminder that, even after …

Ohioan to appeal conviction in 'dying blinks' case

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department shows Ricardo Woods, of Cincinnati. Woods was found guilty Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the shooting death of a man who authorities say identified his assailant by blinking his eyes while paralyzed and hooked u…

Ohioan to appeal conviction in 'dying blinks' case

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department shows Ricardo Woods, of Cincinnati. Woods was found guilty Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the shooting death of a man who authorities say identified his assailant by blinking his eyes while paralyzed and hooked u…

Mom in NM chases down child abductor; man arrested

This undated photo provided by the Albuquerque police department shows David Hernandez, 31, who was arrested Thursday, May 16, 2013 on kidnapping charges. Police say a mother whose 4-year-old daughter was being abducted from an Albuquerque, N.M. apartment complex chased Hernandez on Wednesda…

More rain forecast after deadly storms hit China

Chinese Paramilitary policemen use a boat to evacuate people on a flooded street after torrential rains in Xiamen in southeast China's Fujian province Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Brothers arrested in Mother's Day parade shooting

In this New Orleans Police image provided by WVUE Fox 8 News, Akein Scott is taken into custody Wednesday, May 15, 2013 in New Orleans. Akein and Shawn Scott, two brothers with a history of drug arrests and ties to a neighborhood gang, each face 20 counts of attempted second-degree murder in…

Dying man's eye blinks lead to Ohio murder verdict

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department shows Ricardo Woods, of Cincinnati. Woods was found guilty Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the shooting death of a man who authorities say identified his assailant by blinking his eyes while paralyzed and hooked u…

Dying man's eye blinks lead to Ohio murder verdict

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department shows Ricardo Woods, of Cincinnati. Woods was found guilty Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the shooting death of a man who authorities say identified his assailant by blinking his eyes while paralyzed and hooked u…

Dying man's eye blinks lead to Ohio murder verdict

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department shows Ricardo Woods, of Cincinnati. Woods was found guilty Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the shooting death of a man who authorities say identified his assailant by blinking his eyes while paralyzed and hooked u…

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos

AP10ThingsToSee - In this photo provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the final section of spire is lowered into position on the top of One World Trade Center in New York on Friday, May 10, 2013. With the spire in place, One World Trade Center is now 1,776 feet tall. (AP…

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos

AP10ThingsToSee - In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis frees a dove during his weekly general audience in St. Peter Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. As Francis toured the square in his open-topped popemobile at his Wednesday audien…

Saudi health workers sickened by SARS-like virus

FILE - This undated file image released by the British Health Protection Agency shows an electron microscope image of a coronavirus, part of a family of viruses that cause ailments including the common cold and SARS, which was first identified last year in the Middle East. The Ministry of He…

1st day of 2-day Andy Williams auction brings $46M

FILE - This undated file photo provided by Sotheby’s New York shows a Navajo man's wearing blanket from the collection of Andy Williams. Williams' eclectic art collection has brought $46 million at a New York City auction on Wednesday May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Sotheby's, File)

Jurors deliberate at Ohio trial hinging on blinks

FILE - Ricardo Woods, of Cincinnati shown in this undated photo provided by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Deptartment, is charged with murdering David Chandler, who identified Woods by blinking to authorities while he was being interviewed while paralyzed after being shot in the head and nec…

Judge declines to nix '79 NYC child-killing case

FILE - This undated file image provided by the New York Police Department shows a flyer distributed by the NYPD of Etan Patz, who vanished in New York on May 25, 1979. Pedro Hernandez of Maple Shade, N.J., charged with murder decades after Patz's disappearance, is due to learn Wednesday, May…

Russia says alleged spying case was 2nd this year

In this handout photo provided by the FSB, acronym for Russian Federal Security Service, a man claimed by FSB to be Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, is detained in Moscow, early Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Russia's security services say they have caught a U.S. diplomat…

Russia's FSB: Another alleged US spy expelled

In this handout photo provided by the FSB, acronym for Russian Federal Security Service, a man claimed by FSB to be Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, is detained in Moscow, early Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Russia's security services say they have caught a U.S. diplomat…

Timeline of legal events in O.J. Simpson's life

FILE - This file photo combo shows O.J. Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, left, and her friend Ron Goldman, both of whom were murdered and found dead in Los Angeles on June 12, 1994. O.J. Simpson was arrested in connection to the murder and acquitted of the crime. Simpson is now servin…

China questions Japan rule over Okinawa

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 24, 2012 file photo, Japan Coast Guard vessel sails along with Chinese surveillance ship Haijian No. 66, foreground, near disputed islands the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea. China is trying to strengthen its claim on tiny, uninhabite…

China questions Japan rule over Okinawa

FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2012 file photo, the survey ship Koyo Maru, left, chartered by Tokyo city officials, sails around Minamikojima, foreground, Kitakojima, middle right, and Uotsuri, background, the tiny islands in the East China Sea, called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese. Chi…

APNewsBreak: Lawyer: Tsarnaev's widow to cooperate

FILE - This June 26, 2007 booking photo released by the Warwick, R.I., Police Department on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, shows Katherine Russell, after her arrest on shoplifting charges in Warwick. A new lawyer for the widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev says his client wil…

US diplomat ordered to leave Russia in spy case

In this handout photo provided by the FSB, acronym for Russian Federal Security Service, a man claimed by FSB to be Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, is detained in Moscow, early Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Russia's security services say they have caught a U.S. diplomat…

$300,000 damage in Port Angeles bulldozer rampage

This frame grame from aerial video footage provided by KOMO-TV shows damage allegedly caused by Barry Alan Swegle, a man angry at his neighbors who went on a rampage in a bulldozer, damaging four homes, knocking one off its foundation and cutting power to thousands of people, authorities sai…

HIV-infected teacher's aide accused of molestation

This undated photo provided by the Cahokia Police Department shows Mario Hunt, 35, of Cahokia, Ill. Hunt, an HIV-infected teacher's aide in a special-needs classroom at Cahokia High School, is accused of exposing a student to the AIDS-causing virus during molestations. He was jailed Tuesday,…

Deadly bomb strikes civilian area in east Libya

In this image made from pool video provided by APTN, Libyan men inspect a destroyed car at the scene of a car bomb explosion in Benghazi, Libya, Monday, May 13, 2013. A car bomb exploded Monday near a hospital in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing many, officials said, in one of th…

Deadly bomb strikes civilian area in east Libya

In this image made from pool video provided by APTN, Libyan men inspect the damages of a vehicle at the scene of a car bomb explosion in Benghazi, Libya, Monday, May 13, 2013. A car bomb exploded Monday near a hospital in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing many, officials said, in …

Deadly bomb strikes civilian area in east Libya

In this image made from video provided by APTN, Libyan men look at a damaged car at the site of a car bomb explosion in Benghazi, Libya, Monday, May 13, 2013. A car bomb exploded Monday near a hospital in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing many, officials said, in one of the bigges…

'Iron Man 3,' 'Gatsby' combine for big business

This film publicity image released by Disney-Marvel Studios shows Robert Downey Jr., left, as Tony Stark/Iron Man and Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts in a scene from "Iron Man 3." (AP Photo/Disney, Marvel Studios)

Man accused of Vegas shooting and crash arraigned

FILE - This 2012 file booking photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Ammar Harris. Harris is due for arraignment in state court in a shooting and fiery crash that killed three people on the Las Vegas Strip and felony sex assault charges in a 2010 rape case. The …