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Boston police: Bombing suspect is in custody

WATERTOWN, Mass. – A 19-year-old college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody Friday evening after a manhunt that left the city virtually paralyzed and his o...

Pakistan’s Musharraf flees court to avoid arrest

ISLAMABAD – Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf and his bodyguards pushed past policemen and sped away from court in the country’s capital Thursday to avoid arrest after his bai...

How Chinese bird flu infects humans still mystery

BEIJING – Almost three weeks after China reported finding a new strain of bird flu in humans, experts are still stumped by how people are becoming infected when many appear to have had no re...

Air search finds no trace of missing Okla. man

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – A short break in windy weather on Thursday allowed a rancher with a helicopter to search a rugged mountainside in southeastern Oregon for a young Oklahoma man who set out...

Double disaster: Man sees explosions in Boston, Texas

People keep asking Joe Berti if he feels unlucky. A bomb exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon moments after Berti finished the race. Two days later, he was in his ho...

NASA spies planets that seem ideal for life

WASHINGTON – NASA’s planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. And they are just the right size and in just the right ...

Scientists decode DNA of ‘living fossil’ fish

Breakthrough may provide insights into evolution

Spring storm delivers extremes

ST. LOUIS – A powerful spring storm system stretching from southern Texas to northern Michigan unleashed a wave of weather extremes on the Midwest on Thursday and threatened to bring its mix...

Nation Briefs

No bombs found after 2 Calif. threats LOS ANGELES – When a 911 caller told Southern California police Thursday that there were bombs at two state universities, one campus decided ...

Crews seek survivors after huge Texas blast

Fertilizer plant explosion wrecks homes, apartment building, school

Letters suspect called troubled

OXFORD, Miss. – A Mississippi man charged with sending ricin-laced letters to the president and other officials was described Thursday as a good father, a quiet neighbor and an entertainer w...

Rescuers search ruins of Texas fertilizer plant

WEST, Texas – Rescuers searched the smoking remnants of a Texas farm town Thursday for survivors of a thunderous fertilizer plant explosion, gingerly checking smashed houses and apartments f...
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