16 hurt in shuttle bus crash near Atlanta airport
| |Friday, May. 24, 2013
COLLEGE PARK, Ga. — Sixteen people were taken to the hospital Friday, at least two in serious condition, after they were hurt in a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's airport, officials said.
Jurors deadlock on Jodi Arias penalty; retrial set
| |Friday, May. 24, 2013
PHOENIX — Jurors who spent five months determining Jodi Arias' fate couldn't decide whether she should get life in prison or die for murdering her boyfriend, sending prosecutors back to the drawing board to rehash the shocking case of sex, lies and violence to another 12 people.
Safe room mandates remain rare in tornado states
| |Friday, May. 24, 2013
MOORE, Okla. — After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery - for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is. A contractor finished installing the concrete bunker beneath the slab of their garage in early May. About three weeks later, the shelter saved their lives when a tornado that killed 24 people tore through their neighborhood.
Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
GRAPEVINE, Texas — After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions from the left and right made clear that the BSA's controversies are far from over.
Storm took classmates, parents as it swept through
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
MOORE, Okla. — One loved unicorns. Another, nicknamed "ladybug," sang country songs. Another dreamed of one day owning a pontoon boat.
Correction: Oklahoma Tornado story
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
MOORE, Okla. — In some early versions of a story May 22 about damage estimates from the tornado in Moore, Okla., The Associated Press misspelled the name of the city's mayor. He is Glenn Lewis, not Glen.
Gay Scouts encourage national group to change ban
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
GRAPEVINE — Gay-rights advocates call on Boy Scout leaders to vote today to lift ban on openly gay Scouts.
Broke no laws, IRS official says _ then takes 5th
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
WASHINGTON — At the center of a political storm, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents targeted conservative groups swore Wednesday she did nothing wrong, broke no laws and never lied to Congress. Then she refused to answer lawmakers' further questions, citing her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself.
Thunderstorms slow Oklahoma tornado cleanup
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
MOORE, Okla. — 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.
Man shot by FBI had ties to Boston bombing suspect
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
ORLANDO, Fla. — A Chechen immigrant shot to death in Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent implicated himself in a triple slaying that officials believe may have been connected to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, authorities said.
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