Students safe after armed man reported at school
THORNTON, Colo. (AP) -- Police say a Denver-area high school student whose class project included a replica AK-47 was carrying the display to his mom in the parking lot, roughly around the time another student and teacher saw someone outside with what appeared to be a rifle....
05/24/2013 07:33:33pm
Principal recounts tornado hitting Oklahoma school
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Teachers and students at Plaza Towers Elementary School hunkered down against the storm just as they had been taught in countless tornado drills, their principal said Friday, recounting how she walked the halls until the twister was on the doorstep, then announced on the intercom, "It's here."...
05/24/2013 07:32:47pm
Parolee indicted in theft of Gold Rush jewelry box
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- A parolee was indicted by a federal grand jury in the theft of a valuable Gold Rush-era jewelry box from the Oakland Museum of California, authorities said Friday....
05/24/2013 07:12:11pm
Man accused of killing 5 in Illinois takes stand
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- A 34-year-old man accused of killing five members of a central Illinois family with a tire iron took the witness stand Friday, wiping away tears as he painted a horrifying picture of the murder scene....
05/24/2013 07:08:21pm
Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos
PHOENIX (AP) -- A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people....
05/24/2013 07:06:32pm
Trucker bumps I-5 bridge, sees tragedy behind him
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) -- The trucker was hauling a load of drilling equipment when his load bumped against the steel framework over an Interstate 5 bridge. He looked in his rearview mirror and watched in horror as the span collapsed into the water behind him. Two vehicles fell into the icy Skagit River....
05/24/2013 07:04:21pm
Ill. House approves guns plan opposed by governor
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Gun owners could carry concealed weapons in Illinois, the last state in the nation to prohibit it, under legislation that swept through the House Friday with the backing of the powerful Democratic speaker from Chicago, a city torn by violence despite what critics claim are the nation's toughest firearms restrictions....
05/24/2013 06:54:12pm
Biographer regrets affair with former CIA director
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus triggered his resignation says she regrets the relationship and the harm and grief it caused her family....
05/24/2013 06:44:27pm
18 hurt in shuttle bus crash near Atlanta airport
COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) -- Eighteen 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....
05/24/2013 06:42:48pm
Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday. He was 81....
05/24/2013 06:39:15pm
I-5 bridge survivor: 'I can't believe we're alive'
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) -- Bryce Kenning saw the void before him in an explosion of dust, and there was nothing he could do....
05/24/2013 06:28:14pm
No bail for Pa. parents in faith-healing death
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care....
05/24/2013 05:48:48pm
LA sanitation ends plans for dump near Joshua Tree
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A regional garbage collection agency has tossed out plans to build a mega-landfill for Los Angeles' trash less than two miles from Joshua Tree National Park in the remote Southern California desert....
05/24/2013 05:32:49pm
Suspect in killing of officer found dead in cell
OGDEN, Utah (AP) -- A Utah Army veteran was found hanging dead Friday in his jail cell as he awaited trial on charges of killing a police officer and wounding five others during a raid that netted 13 pot plants and sparked a fierce debate about what happened that night....
05/24/2013 05:31:37pm
Woman feared Iowa kidnapping suspect's release
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- The ex-girlfriend of a man suspected of kidnapping two Iowa girls this week worried that he would harm her and her family before his impending release from prison in 2011, citing prior sexual and physical abuse and threats, according to court records released Friday....
05/24/2013 05:29:49pm
