By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
A rash of tornadoes sweeping through Oklahoma and the Midwest has left one dead, several in hospitals with injuries and hundreds of homes and buildings in shreds. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Gunmaker Smith & Wesson tops the list of best businesses in bright blue Massachusetts — after not making the list at all last year — a new report in the Boston Globe found. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Poor people are leaving the cities behind and heading to the suburbs, a new report from The Brookings Institution finds. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Mark Sherman - Associated Press
The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open public meetings. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Yahoo’s board of directors approved an offer to buy the ailing Tumblr company for $1.1 billion in cash. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Nurses treating Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say their natural inclination toward compassion makes it difficult to see the 19-year-old as a possible terrorist. And they have to make concerted effort — and buddy-system pacts — to keep from referring to him with terms of endearment such as “hon.” Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
The Dalai Lama advised an audience in Louisville over the weekend to forgive the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Two FBI agents were killed while taking part in a training exercise near Virginia Beach, the bureau said in a statement. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
A bus company that bills one of its tours as a real-life ride through an actual inner-city ghetto has been packing the seats, as tourists from Europe and Australia have flocked for the up-close-and-personal glimpse into one of America’s crime-ridden areas. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Luke Rosiak and Jeffrey Anderson - The Washington Times
Washington, D.C., has failed to remove from its voting rolls as many as 13,000 former residents who years ago moved to Prince George’s County and cast ballots there, making fraud by voting in two jurisdictions as easy as going to the polls in their old neighborhoods, The Washington Times found in a review of records. Published May 19, 2013 Comments
By Philip Elliott - Associated Press
The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department. Published May 19, 2013
By Larry Neumeister - Associated Press
The federal judge presiding over civil rights challenges to the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department has no doubt where she stands with the government. Published May 19, 2013
By Nicholas K. Geranios - Associated Press
Authorities in hazardous-materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin. Published May 19, 2013
By John Christoffersen - Associated Press
Tens of thousands of commuters are bracing for a difficult trip around southwest Connecticut and into New York City beginning Monday as workers repair the Metro-North commuter rail line crippled by a derailment and crash. Published May 19, 2013
By Frank Eltman - Associated Press
n what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating back nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University. Published May 19, 2013
By Barbara Rodriguez - Associated Press
It's all about the odds, and one lone ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching each of the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials said Sunday. Published May 19, 2013
By Associated Press
Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did not cause the crash intentionally, an emergency official said Sunday. Published May 19, 2013
By Associated Press
Melissa Torrez didn't even think when teenagers in her apartment complex said a man had just grabbed her 4-year-old girl and drove away. Published May 18, 2013
By Associated Press
Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector general said Friday, disclosing that Obama administration officials knew there was a probe during the heat of the presidential campaign. Published May 18, 2013
By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times
As a Realtor in Orange County, California, Gary Thomas lives at the epicenter of the last decade’s epic housing boom and bust that is only now beginning to release the economy from its withering grip. Published May 18, 2013
By Associated Press
Tens of thousands of police officers from around the country are in Washington as part of National Police Week. Published May 18, 2013
By Associated Press
Witnesses in southwestern Virginia say a car has driven into a crowd at a parade. Several people appear to be hurt, but the nature of their injuries wasn't immediately known. Published May 18, 2013
By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
Magpul Industries joined 54 Colorado county sheriffs Friday in filing a federal lawsuit against the state's recently signed gun-control bills. Published May 18, 2013
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
The Homeland Security Department has granted legal status to 99.2 percent of all illegal immigrants who have applied under President Obama's new non-deportation policy for young adults, according to the latest numbers released Friday. Published May 18, 2013
By Associated Press
The Powerball jackpot for Saturday's drawing continues to grow. Published May 17, 2013
