Updated: 8:17 AM Police are now saying 95 vehicles were involved in 17 separate crashes along a mountainous, foggy stretch of interstate near the Virginia-North Carolina border.

Updated: 3:56 PM Authorities say a 4-year-old girl was fatally shot while she was sitting in a car, and detectives are investigating whether another young child inside the car fired the gun.

Posted: 1:50 PM Republican Sen. Jeff Flake says it is "inevitable" that his party will see one of its own run for president while supporting gay marriage.

Updated: 8:18 AM Officials in Louisville expect the repairs and cleanup of the old Jefferson County Courthouse will take three months following a water pipe leak that flooded the mayor's office and other rooms in the building.

Posted: 1:25 PM For baseball's Opening Day, Louisville Slugger has a new bat with a new logo.

Updated: 8:19 AM A major airship disaster will be remembered this week in New Jersey. And it's not the one you're probably thinking of.

Updated: 12:40 PM When the Senate considers gun control legislation, a prominent activist says it should include better access to mental health records.

Posted: 12:39 PM Two of the lawmakers negotiating an immigration overhaul in Congress say a final deal is at hand but caution that the bipartisan group working on a proposal hasn't finished its work.

Posted: 12:37 PM Rival legal teams are girding for court battles over the coming months on laws enacted in Arkansas and North Dakota that would impose the nation's toughest bans on abortion.

Posted: 10:36 AM The more-than 250,000 people who gathered in St. Peter's Square on this Easter Sunday have been rewarded with a visit from the new pontiff.

Posted: 9:00 AM One of North Korea's top decision-making bodies is setting guidelines that call nuclear weapons "the nation's life" that won't be traded even for "billions of dollars."

Updated: 10:38 AM Pope Francis is celebrating his first Easter Sunday Mass as pontiff in St. Peter's Square, which is packed by joyous pilgrims, tourists and Romans.

Posted: 8:43 AM Catholics and Protestants in the Holy Land are celebrating Easter with prayers and services.

Posted: 8:42 AM Iraqi Catholics are flocking to churches around the country to celebrate Easter amid tight security.

Posted: 8:35 AM A sheriff's deputy says authorities are investigating the deaths of a North Texas county district attorney and his wife who were found dead in a home.

Posted: 8:32 AM A U.S. Navy minesweeper has been removed from a Philippine coral reef, where it ran aground in January. Both sides will assess the damage to the UNESCO World Heritage site to determine the fine that Washington will pay.

Posted: 8:26 AM Chinese authorities say two Shanghai men have died from a little-known type of bird flu in the first known human deaths from the H7N9 strain.

Posted: 8:24 AM Former South African President Nelson Mandela remains in a hospital Sunday while he receives treatment for a recurrence of pneumonia.

Posted: 2:47 PM A formal complaint filed with New York's lobbying board asks it to investigate whether Artists Against Fracking, a group formed by Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon, is violating the state's lobbying law.

Posted: 2:45 PM The White House says it is taking seriously a new threat by North Korea against its southern neighbor.

Posted: 1:51 PM Authorities in Tennessee have found the body of a man who was thrown from an experimental aircraft while an instructor was teaching him to fly.

Posted: 11:59 AM About 150 to 200 patients of a Tulsa oral surgeon who's accused of unsanitary practices are lined up outside a health clinic to be screened for hepatitis and the virus that causes AIDS.

Posted: 11:22 AM When a house fire breaks out in the Philadelphia area, the Red Cross springs into action to offer the family a helping hand and a place to stay.

Posted: 11:14 AM A Chinese veterinarian has performed an artificial insemination on the National Zoo's female giant panda, Mei Xiang

Updated: 1:06 PM Conservationists want to make sure Peter Cottontail is around for many Easters to come.