Clarkedu1-i-syn Clarke’s appointment was approved Monday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler. Bowler denied, at least for now, a request from Miriam Conrad, the public defender of 19-year-old suspect Dzhokhar…
Natural-gas and oil drillers had pushed for the change, but there have been differing scientific estimates of the amount of methane that leaks from wells, pipelines and other facilities during…
The mother of the two Boston bombing suspects, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, left, speaks at a news conference in Makhachkala, the southern Russian province of Dagestan. Tsarnaeva is drawing increased attention after…
Liberation theologians see hope for renewal under new pope
Five of the brown DeKay’s snakes – sometimes called earth snakes – have been found in the Hinds County circuit clerk’s basement office since April 8. A deputy clerk, Kelly…
Residents walk past tree branches and power lines blown down by Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 26, 2012, in Santiago de Cuba. Some residents of eastern Cuba are not yet back…
Keogh, a traffic motorcycle officer with seven years on the force, delivered a baby girl during Thursday morning’s rush-hour commute on Honolulu’s H-1 freeway. It was his second delivery on…
Lauren Howie, 27, outside the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, is indicative of the voting bloc powering President Barack Obama’s electoral success. In Ohio, a…
U.S. officials say Assad might have used nerve agent against rebels
They would be on the first two helicopters to drop into the villages of the Khogyani district in the shadows of the Tora Bora mountains, kicking off a four-day operation…
After limited probe of Russian tip, the FBI closed case
Air travelers at Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta and elsewhere across the country can expect more-normal airline schedules now that the Federal Aviation Administration has suspended all furloughs for air traffic…
Dutschkedu1-i-syn The arrest of 41-year-old James Everett Dutschke early Saturday capped a week in which investigators initially zeroed in on a rival of Dutschke’s, then decided they had the wrong…
Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks to delegates to the 2013 Democratic Party state convention in Sacramento, Calif. President Barack Obama apologized to Harris after introducing her at a Democratic fundraiser…
Now it’s launched a new line of business: funeral products for pets, on which Americans spend more than $55 billion a year. The Aurora, Ind.-based casket maker last week began…
Research shows wild animals follow crowd like humans
29 more survivors rescued; 6 arrested
George Jones, known as “The Voice,” recorded No. 1 songs in five separate decades, 1950s to 1990s. He died Friday at 81Associated Press file photo Other great singers have come…
Hours after the explosions, a Bangladeshi man told police he was dubbed an “Arab” and beaten in New York. A veiled Muslim woman in a city near Boston said she…
Authorities believe this landing gear could belong to one of the airliners that crashed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. The debris was found wedged between a…
Death toll climbs past 300 at Bangladesh garment factory
George Jones, the peerless, hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” has died.…
The Commerce Department said economic growth accelerated to a 2.5 percent annual rate in the January-March quarter. That’s up from an anemic 0.4 percent annual growth rate in the October-December…
Congress easily approved legislation Friday ending furloughs of air traffic controllers that have delayed hundreds of flights daily, infuriating travelers and causing political headaches for lawmakers.Associated Press file photo The…
The report from the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln said the rain that caused flooding in some areas of the Midwest helped decrease the drought area…
“I am going there to see my son and bury my older one,” Anzor Tsarnaev said in an emotional meeting with journalists. “I have no bad thoughts, I’m not planning…
