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    • NATION-WORLD
    • May. 24, 2013

    ‘Horrified’ trucker watches Washington bridge collapse

    A truck hauling an oversized load of drilling equipment hit an overhead bridge girder on the major route between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the interstate into the river below as the driver watched the structure collapse in his rearview mirror.

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Controversy not over as Boy Scouts OK plan to accept openly gay boys

    Grapevine, Texas — After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions from the left and right made clear that the BSA's controversies are far from over.

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Jury foreman says Arias testimony didn’t help her in murder case

    Phoenix — As jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial filed one by one from the courtroom after a dramatic five months of gut-wrenching testimony and gruesome photographs, three women on the panel cried and one looked to the victim's family, mouthing the word, "Sorry."

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Community stunned as boy, 15, held in deaths of 2 younger siblings in Utah

    West Point, Utah — A 15-year-old boy is in custody after authorities investigating the stabbing deaths of his younger adopted brothers found him miles away with traces of blood on him, officials said.

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    No bail for Pennsylvania parents in baby's faith-healing death

    Philadelphia — A Philadelphia judge has ordered that a couple who believe in faith healing over medicine be held without bail on third-degree murder charges in the April death of their 8-month-old son.

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    16 hurt in shuttle bus crash near Atlanta airport

    College Park, Ga. — Sixteen 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.

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Hurricane center: Beware of the storm surge

    Miami — During a hurricane, storm surge is one of the greatest threats to life and land, yet many people don't understand the dire warnings from forecasters to get out of its way. So this season, they hope to offer easy-to-understand, color-coded maps and change the way they talk to the public.

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Jersey shore reopens for 1st post-Sandy summer

    Seaside Heights, N.J. — New Jersey rolled out some of its big guns Friday to proclaim that the shore is back following Superstorm Sandy, using Gov. Chris Christie and the cast of MTV's "Jersey Shore" to tell a national audience the state is ready for summer fun.

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    UK arrests 2 men over incident with Pakistan plane

    London — Two men were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft Friday after a U.K. fighter jet was scrambled to divert their plane as it traveled from Pakistan to Britain, officials said. The incident further rattled the U.K. just days after a British soldier was brutally killed on a London street in a suspected terror attack.

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    5.7-magnitude quake widely felt across Northern California

    Greenville, Calif. — An earthquake in far northeastern California was felt by thousands of people as far away as San Francisco and in two other states, but there have been no reports of injury or serious damage.

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Earthquake hits Russia's Far East

    Moscow — A powerful earthquake on Friday hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 4,400 miles west of the epicenter.

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Obama’s speech on drones, Guantanamo welcomed in Pakistan, Yemen

    Islamabad — President Barack Obama's speech on the use of drones and the fate of Guantanamo prisoners was largely welcomed Friday in two key countries affected by the policies— Pakistan and Yemen.

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Boston bombing suspect's hearing rescheduled again

    Boston — A federal judge has rescheduled a probable cause hearing for surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Man suspected in Maryland hatchet death is son of Bush White House official

    Gaithersburg, Md. — The 20-year-old son of a former aide to President George W. Bush was charged in a Washington, D.C., suburb on Friday, accused by police of killing a man with a hatchet.

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Muslim hardliners ID suspect in fatal London knife attack

    London — A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert ...

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Scouts to accept openly gay boys

    Grapevine, Texas — The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders — a fiercely contested ...

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Teachers, kids reunite; town mourns 9-year-old

    Moore, Okla. — Students from a suburban Oklahoma City elementary school destroyed by this week's tornado reunited with their teachers Thursday and ...

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Briefs: House passes variable rate student loans legislation

    Dismissing a veto threat from President Barack Obama, lawmakers in the House passed legislation that links student loan rates to the ups and downs of the ...

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Arias jury hung up on death penalty

    Phoenix — Jurors who spent five months determining Jodi Arias' fate couldn't decide whether she should get life in prison or die for murdering her ...

    • May. 23, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Boy Scouts to accept openly gay boys, but not leaders

    The Boy Scouts of America’s National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.

    • May. 23, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Nearly all U.S. states see hefty drop in teen births

    New York — The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and ...

    • May. 23, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Kids, teachers from devastated Oklahoma school reunite

    Moore, Okla. — — Students from a suburban Oklahoma City elementary school destroyed by this week's tornado reunited with their teachers Thursday ...

    • May. 23, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    New Jersey: Caramel-colored rubbing alcohol sold as scotch

    Trenton, N.J. — At one bar, a mixture that included rubbing alcohol and caramel coloring was sold as scotch. In another, premium liquor bottles were ...

    • May. 23, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Hurricane forecast: Another busy Atlantic season

    College Park, Md. — Get ready for another busy hurricane season, maybe unusually wild, federal forecasters say.

    • May. 23, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Report: Nation’s kids need to get more physical

    Reading, writing, ‘rithmetic — and PE? The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of ...

    • May. 23, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Defense releases photos, texts of Trayvon Martin

    Orlando, Fla. — George Zimmerman's defense attorneys on Thursday released information from 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's cellphone that include the teen ...

    • May. 23, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Teen arrested in death of his 2 brothers in Utah

    West Point, Utah — A teenager was arrested Thursday in the deaths of his two younger brothers, ages 4 and 10, at the family home in a Utah subdivision of ...

    • May. 23, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Muslim hardliners ID London terror suspect

    London — Two Muslim hardliners say the man seen wielding a bloody butcher's knife after the killing of a British soldier is a Muslim convert who took ...

    • May. 23, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Father of man shot in Boston probe shares regrets

    Grozny, Russia — The father of a Chechen immigrant shot dead by U.S. law enforcement agents while being questioned about his ties to a Boston Marathon ...

    • May. 23, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Cleveland kidnap case hero gets burgers for life

    Cleveland — The man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for a decade in an Ohio house will never have to pay for ...

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Rare Superman comic found in house insulation

— It’s considered the Holy Grail of comic books: Action Comics No. 1 from 1938, featuring the debut of Superman. And David Gonzales found one mixed in with old newspapers insulating a wall in a house he was renovating in a small town in Minnesota. -- Read More

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