National News
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday that federal officials are trying to locate a temporary replacement for a bridge that collapsed along the crucial Interstate 5 corridor between Seattle and Canada.
May 24, 2013
The principal of the Oklahoma elementary school where seven children died in a tornado says her teachers did everything they could to save their lives.
May 24, 2013
A New York City lawyer for two massage therapists who sued retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre over racy text messages said Friday the case has been settled.
May 24, 2013
The truck driver whose over-sized load of heavy drilling equipment is blamed for causing a bridge collapse on Interstate 5 in Washington state was "just horrified" when he saw what happened.
May 24, 2013
A trooper said Friday that the truck whose oversize load caused the collapse of an interstate bridge in Washington state was hauling drilling equipment from Canada to Vancouver, Washington.
May 24, 2013
The Internal Revenue Service official, who publicly revealed that the agency targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, has been replaced.
May 24, 2013
Government health officials are investigating several health problems reported with potentially contaminated medications that came from a Tennessee specialty pharmacy.
May 24, 2013
Four girls killed in an Alabama church bombing during the civil rights movement 50 years ago received on Friday the highest honor Congress can give civilians.
May 24, 2013
President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines designed to restrict targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significant power over how and when the weapons can be deployed.
May 24, 2013
Being the only state in the country without a concealed-carry law, Illinois was ordered on Friday to put one on the books -- despite strong opposition from the state's governor.
May 24, 2013
Delta Air Lines is opening a $1.4 billion terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, strengthening its hand in the battle for the lucrative New York travel market.
May 24, 2013
Prosecutors said Friday that a Tennessee pharmacy owner, who was killed during a robbery, had already handed over several bottles of prescription drugs when the gunman shot him to death.
May 24, 2013
The last of the Arellano Felix brothers, who founded an infamous Mexican drug cartel, on Friday pleaded guilty to helping ship hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from the United States.
May 24, 2013
The lawyer for a Maine man charged with killing a 15-year-old girl asked a judge Friday to keep affidavits and search warrants with details about the case under seal.
May 24, 2013
A man accused of killing five members of a central Illinois family with a tire iron wiped away tears as he described a horrifying murder scene to jurors on Friday.
May 24, 2013
The Utah homeowner who was charged in a deadly shootout with police during a drug raid has been found dead in his jail cell, authorities said Friday.
May 24, 2013
An earthquake in far northeastern California was felt by thousands of people -- as far away as San Francisco and in two other states -- and registered a magnitude of nearly 6.0, officials said Friday.
May 24, 2013
A federal judge has rescheduled a probable cause hearing for surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
May 24, 2013
A 20-year-old Montgomery County man has been arrested and jailed for allegedly killing another man with a hatchet, authorities said Friday.
May 24, 2013
Flynn Robinson, who was on the 1971-1972 Lakers team that won Los Angeles its first NBA title, has died at the age of 72.
May 24, 2013
After about 13 hours of deliberations over three days, the jury tasked with determining the punishment for convicted killer Jodi Arias gave up -- causing the nation's latest gripping courtroom drama to end in a mistrial.
May 24, 2013
Federal officials investigating last week's train derailment in Connecticut said Friday the engineer described what is called an "unusual condition" on the track before the train derailed.
May 24, 2013
Authorities said nearly 20 people were injured on Friday in a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport.
May 24, 2013
The biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus triggered his resignation said that she now regrets the relationship.
May 24, 2013
President Barack Obama was interrupted three times by a woman on Thursday, who shouted about drones and detainees in Cuba as he delivered a speech on national security.
May 23, 2013
A Republican member of the Arizona House says she received an obscene and threatening voicemail at her office because she supports Gov. Jan Brewer's push to expand Medicaid.
May 23, 2013
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.
May 23, 2013
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.
May 23, 2013
A Dallas man who drowned two of his toddler sons in a creek last week, apparently because he was mad at their mother for breaking up with him, has been given the death penalty.
May 23, 2013
The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday 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.
May 23, 2013
