FBI: Wife tried to frame husband for ricin letters
| |Friday, Jun. 07, 2013
TEXARKANA, Texas — Shannon Richardson had been married to her husband less than two years when she went to authorities and told them her suspicions: He was the one who had mailed ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg threatening violence against gun-control advocates.
US declassifies phone program details after uproar
| |Friday, Jun. 07, 2013
WASHINGTON — Moving to tamp down a public uproar spurred by the disclosure of two secret surveillance programs, the nation's top intelligence official is declassifying key details about one of the programs while insisting the efforts to collect Americans' phone records and the U.S. internet use of foreign nationals overseas were legal, limited in scope and necessary to detect terrorist threats.
Economy adds 175K jobs, jobless climbs to 7.6 pct.
| |Friday, Jun. 07, 2013
WASHINGTON — More Americans hunted for jobs in May, and more companies filled them - signs of confidence and resilience for the slow-healing U.S. economy.
A teacher, her prayers and a deadly tornado
| |Thursday, Jun. 06, 2013
Rhonda Crosswhite, a 1987 Weatherford High School graduate, gained national attention for her words and actions in protecting students at Plaza Towers Elementary School during the EF5 tornado tore through Moore, Okla.
IRS official apologizes for lavish CA conference
| |Thursday, Jun. 06, 2013
WASHINGTON — An Internal Revenue Service official whose division staged a lavish $4.1 million training conference and who starred as Mr. Spock in a "Star Trek" parody shown at the 2010 California gathering conceded to Congress on Thursday that taxpayer dollars were wasted in the episode.
Tropical Storm Andrea bearing down on Fla. coast
| |Thursday, Jun. 06, 2013
MIAMI — The first named storm of the Atlantic season hammered Florida with rain, heavy winds, and tornadoes Thursday as it moved toward the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas, promising sloppy commutes and waterlogged vacation getaways through the beginning of the weekend.
US gov't collecting huge number of phone records
| |Thursday, Jun. 06, 2013
WASHINGTON — The government has been secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, according to the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Long-lost Pearl Buck novel found in Fort Worth
| |Wednesday, Jun. 05, 2013
WASHINGTON — The shocking find by the buyer of the unit, a woman who asked the Buck estate to allow her to remain anonymous, led the late author’s family to take possession of the find after paying the woman a small finder’s fee. The completed novel, “The Eternal Wonder,” apparently finished just before her 1973 death from cancer, was unknown to her family or to her publishers.
Nice gesture helps Fla. widow, 84, win big jackpot
| |Wednesday, Jun. 05, 2013
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — When Gloria C. MacKenzie went to a Florida supermarket near Tampa last month to buy a Powerball ticket, another person in line did something nice for the 84-year-old widow.
TSA drops plan to allow small knives on planes
| |Wednesday, Jun. 05, 2013
WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration is abandoning a plan to allow passengers to carry small knives, souvenir bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes in the face of fierce congressional and industry opposition, the head of the agency said Wednesday.
