Posted: 8:36 AM U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in April, and hiring was much stronger in the previous two months than first thought. The gains trimmed the unemployment rate to a four-year low of 7.5 percent.
Updated: 10:22 AM An overnight fire at the Labor Department's headquarters has shut the building down for most employees.
Updated: 8:27 AM A county official in eastern Ohio says the high-profile case of a 16-year-old girl raped by two high school football players last summer has cost the juvenile court about $18,000 so far.
Posted: 7:34 AM After 52 years K-Lair Grill will be closing its doors.
Updated: 7:33 AM The U.S. Forest Service is demanding that states give back $17.9 million in federal subsidies, saying the taxpayer cash is subject to automatic spending cuts called "sequestration."
Updated: 7:30 AM A Newtown task force is set to take up the question of what to do with the school where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in December.
Updated: 7:32 AM Fresh off a huge victory over President Barack Obama on gun control, the National Rifle Association is gathering in Houston for its annual convention.
Updated: 7:31 AM A high-school teacher from Alabama is accused of kidnapping a 6-year-old girl from school in Mississippi, sending a frightening text message to the child's mother and paying to keep her overnight in a hotel.
Updated: 7:32 AM Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday.
Posted: 3:18 PM Deadheads are uniting in opposition to a proposal to rename a San Francisco venue named in honor of the Grateful Dead founder.
Posted: 3:11 PM Jay-Z is part of a group trying to renovate Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum outside New York City.
Updated: 3:20 PM A white Steinway grand piano salvaged from musician Fats Domino's home after Hurricane Katrina has been restored and will be the centerpiece of an exhibit in New Orleans' French Quarter.
Posted: 2:28 PM Autism scientists are seeking more brain samples for research.
Posted: 2:23 PM ExxonMobil officials say cleanup is nearly complete after an oil leak from the Pegasus pipeline in southeast Missouri.
Updated: 4:52 PM Police in northern Ohio say two toddlers were hit by bullets when someone fired several shots into the courtyard of an apartment complex.
Updated: 9:41 AM Authorities say Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo behind one of the decade's most memorable songs, "Jump," has died at an Atlanta hospital of an apparent drug overdose. He was 34.
Updated: 5:25 PM Rhode Island is joining nine other states and the District of Columbia in allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry.
Updated: 8:49 AM The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to seasonally adjusted 324,000, the lowest since January 2008. The drop points to fewer layoffs and possibly more hiring.
Updated: 9:43 AM Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday.
Posted: 5:00 PM Mitch Albom, one of the country's most popular authors, has a new publisher and a new novel coming this fall.
Posted: 1:47 PM An 80-year-old West Virginia horse racing track has had its biggest gambling month ever.
Posted: 11:52 AM DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. is buying AwesomenessTV, a YouTube teen network, for about $33 million in cash as it looks to tap into the popularity of online content.
Updated: 4:27 PM A third college friend of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects is being held pending a detention and probable cause hearing.
Updated: 4:58 PM Scientists say they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American colonists survived harsh conditions by resorting to cannibalism.
Updated: 11:42 AM The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is balking at enforcing dam tailwater fishing restrictions by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
