Posted: 6:36 AM Soaking rains spawned numerous flood watches and pushed some streams and creeks over their banks throughout the Northeast, yet the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season sped up the Eastern Seaboard without causing major damage.
Posted: 6:28 AM The FBI says a Texas woman admitted sending ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but only after trying to pin it on her husband.
Posted: 11:51 PM Prosecutors say a Cleveland man accused of holding three women captive for a decade has been indicted on 329 charges including kidnapping and rape.
Posted: 11:43 PM A top Philadelphia official says the man who was allegedly high while operating demolition equipment when a downtown building collapsed will be charged in the deaths of the six people killed in the rubble.
Updated: 11:59 AM Medical officials say a woman who was wounded at a shooting near Santa Monica College in California has died.
Updated: 4:54 PM A string quartet from The Philadelphia Orchestra has made a lengthy flight delay quite enjoyable for a plane full of lucky passengers in China.
Posted: 4:02 PM California corrections officials say convicted serial killer Richard Ramirez, known as the Night Stalker, has died in prison.
Updated: 5:08 PM A shooting has been reported near the campus of Southern California's Santa Monica College.
Posted: 3:43 PM NASA's Opportunity rover is still on the move after years on the surface of Mars.
Updated: 8:43 AM U.S. employers added 175,000 jobs in May, steady hiring but below the more robust pace that took place during the fall and winter.
Updated: 1:01 PM Pope Francis has revealed that he never wanted to be pope and that he's living in the Vatican hotel for his "psychiatric" health.
Posted: 6:42 AM A 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy is coming out of his coffin in Boston to undergo rare cleaning and restoration procedures at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Posted: 6:36 AM Two Internal Revenue Service agents working in the agency's Cincinnati office say higher-ups in Washington directed the targeting of conservative political groups when they applied for tax-exempt status.
Posted: 12:28 AM Forecasters say Tropical Storm Andrea is weakening slowly as it crosses over Florida toward Georgia and the Carolinas.
Posted: 12:25 AM Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday.
Updated: 4:39 PM The man who helped pave the way for rock 'n' roll is finally getting a permanent exhibit in his Wisconsin hometown, after more than a decade in the making.
Updated: 12:42 PM Education Secretary Arne Duncan would see his authority greatly cut and governors would have final say over their schools under Republican-sponsored legislation.
Posted: 9:24 AM The acting commander at Fort Campbell is convening a panel of experts Thursday to discuss efforts to curb sexual assault and harassment within the 101st Airborne Division.
Updated: 8:45 AM The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week.
Updated: 11:55 PM Philadelphia's mayor says the collapse of a downtown building that was being demolished has killed six people.
Posted: 3:23 PM Susan G. Komen for the Cure says it is canceling half of its 3-day charity races next year because of a drop in participation levels.
Posted: 7:46 AM A person familiar with the case tells The Associated Press that the founder of a Miami anti-aging clinic has agreed to talk to Major League Baseball about players linked to performance-enhancing drugs.
Posted: 11:44 PM Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday.
Posted: 10:20 AM A senior Russian official says the Boston Marathon bombings could have been prevented if American officials had followed through with Russian intelligence.
