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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...

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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...

Feds hunt bomb suspects; Obama offers reassurance

BOSTON – Investigators in the Boston Marathon bombing pressed the search Thursday for one or more potential suspects spotted on video, while President Barack Obama paid a visit under heavy s...

FBI issues photos of 2 suspects in Boston Marathon bombing

BOSTON – Plucking a couple of faces in baseball caps out of a swarming crowd, the FBI zeroed in on two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing and shared surveillance-camera images of them w...

Industry mutes Colo. Dems’ efforts to rein in drillers

Senator says state has more lobbyists than inspectors

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Ex-official’s wife charged with killing prosecutors KAUFMAN, Texas – In a surprising twist, the wife of a jailed former justice of the peace was charged Wednesday with capital mur...

Surveillance video shows bomb suspect in Boston

BOSTON – In what could be major break in the Boston Marathon case, investigators are on the hunt for a man seen in a department-store surveillance video dropping off a bag at the site of the...

Defeat of background checks angers Obama

‘Pretty shameful day for Washington’ president says

Assad accuses West of backing al-Qaida in Syria

BEIRUT – Syria’s president accused the West on Wednesday of backing al-Qaida in his country’s civil war, warning it will pay a price “in the heart” of Europe and the United States as the ter...