At least one dead after Tornadoes rip through Plains, Midwest
Sun, 19 May 2013 23:33:16 -0400
A twister half a mile wide struck near Oklahoma City on Sunday, part of a massive storm front that hammered the central U.S.
Why IRS investigation is already Obama's Watergate
Sun, 19 May 2013 16:19:31 -0400
Will Benghazi become President Obama's Watergate? Or perhaps the IRS scandal?
McConnell: ‘There is a culture of intimidation throughout the administration’
Sun, 19 May 2013 15:18:39 -0400
Republican Senators Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and Rob Portman continued Sunday to press the Obama administration on the Internal Revenue Service scandal that's engulfed the White House.
Obama delivers Morehouse commencement
Sun, 19 May 2013 13:28:54 -0400
President Obama took a break from the trifecta of controversies—IRS, Benghazi, Department of Justice—swirling around the White House on Sunday to deliver the commencement at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution in Atlanta.
Officer shot in Marathon showdown wants to work
Sun, 19 May 2013 17:44:39 -0400
With a bullet still in his body, the police officer who survived a showdown with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects said Sunday he's determined to return to duty.
Commuters warned of traffic mess for up to 1 week
Sun, 19 May 2013 19:16:02 -0400
Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as much as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line affected by a derailment that injured scores of passengers, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned Sunday.
Cop who shot N.Y. student faced harrowing choice
Sun, 19 May 2013 20:43:45 -0400
The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision in law enforcement: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must pull the trigger.
Small Fla. city wonders who won $590.5 million Powerball jackpot
Sun, 19 May 2013 15:33:41 -0400
Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million — the highest Powerball jackpot in history.
The good news – and the bad news – for Obama in scandal-tinged polls
Sun, 19 May 2013 11:04:32 -0400
Given the battering President Obama took this past week on a trio of political scandals, any public opinion survey results that aren’t dreadful probably are viewed with some relief at the White House.
Charlotte remembers 1963 desegregation 'eat-in'
Sun, 19 May 2013 19:36:17 -0400
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a four-mile march from a predominantly African-American college campus to the center of Charlotte's downtown.