IRS chief knew tea party groups targeted in 2012

| |Monday, May. 20, 2013

The former head of the Internal Revenue Service said he first learned in the spring of 2012 - in the heat of the presidential campaign - that agents had improperly targeted political groups that vehemently opposed President Barack Obama's policies.

In tornado's wake, worried parents seek out kids

| |Tuesday, May. 21, 2013

The parents and guardians stood in the muddy grass outside an Oklahoma City area church, listening as someone with a bullhorn called out the names of children who were being dropped off - survivors of a deadly tornado that barreled through their community.

Search for Okla. tornado survivors nearly complete

| |Tuesday, May. 21, 2013

Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children.

Small Fla. city anxious to learn jackpot winner

| |Monday, May. 20, 2013

It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million.

Several children pulled from rubble alive in OKC suburb

| |Monday, May. 20, 2013

A mix of volunteers and first responders are combing through debris in an Oklahoma City suburb looking for survivors.

Many agencies rely on lie detectors despite errors in measurement

| |Monday, May. 20, 2013

US NEWS POLYGRAPH-GLITCH 2 MCT

Police departments and federal agencies nationwide are using a type of polygraph despite evidence of a technical problem that could label truthful people as liars or the guilty as innocent, McClatchy has found.

Official: FBI agents' cause of death unlikely soon

| |Sunday, May. 19, 2013

The Virginia medical examiner's office says it will likely be weeks before the cause of death is determined for two FBI agents who died during a training exercise off the coast of Virginia Beach.

NYers furious over photos taken through windows

| |Friday, May. 17, 2013

Peeping Art

In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans and a T-shirt, lying on his side as he takes a nap.

California fuels $550 million Powerball jackpot

| |Friday, May. 17, 2013

Powerball Jackpot

The numbers sum up the frenzy that has taken over the Golden State since it joined the madness over Powerball, which has seen its jackpot soar to $550 million for Saturday's drawing.

Treasury officials told of IRS probe in June 2012

| |Friday, May. 17, 2013

APTOPIX IRS Political Groups

Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector general said Friday, disclosing that Obama administration officials knew there was a probe during the heat of the presidential campaign.