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Threat of North Dakota dam failure may be easing

Threat of North Dakota dam failure may be easing

BISMARCK, N.D. -- The threat of a possible dam failure on a river near a northeastern North Dakota city appears to be easing, and officials were considering Thursday when 1,300 evacuated...

Updated: Today at 8:34 am EDT
  • $2B in Okla. tornado damage means hard recovery

    $2B in Okla. tornado damage means hard recovery

    MOORE, Okla. -- All that is left of Shayne Patteson's three-bedroom home is the tiny area where his wife hunkered down under a mattress to protect their three children when a tornado packing winds of at least 200 mph slammed through his neighborhood.

    Updated: Today at 8:03 am EDT
  • Ohio kidnap case hero gets burgers for life

    Ohio 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 another burger in his hometown.

    Updated: Today at 7:02 am EDT
  • Youngest Okla. tornado victims remembered by kin

    Youngest Okla. tornado victims remembered by kin

    MOORE, Okla. -- Nine-year-old Sydney Angle was "everywhere at once" when she was out on the softball field. Kyle Davis, 8, was nicknamed "The Wall" because of his size and presence on the soccer field. JaNae Hornsby, also 9, was the life of the party.

    Updated: Today at 4:41 am EDT
  • FBI arrests suspect in Wash. state ricin case

    FBI arrests suspect in Wash. state ricin case

    SPOKANE, Wash. -- The FBI has arrested a suspect in a case involving the discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin and says investigators are working "around the clock" to address any remaining risks.

    Updated: Today at 6:46 am EDT
  • More than 50 hurt when Indiana school buses crash

    More than 50 hurt when Indiana school buses crash

    NORTH WEBSTER, Ind. -- A school bus slammed into the back of another one, setting off a chain-reaction crash involving four buses in northern Indiana, leaving about 50 middle and high students with non-serious injuries and one driver seriously injured.

    Updated: Today at 8:21 am EDT
  • Okla. tornado damage: Thousands of homes, $1.5-$2B

    Okla. tornado damage: Thousands of homes, $1.5-$2B

    MOORE, Okla. -- The tornado that struck an Oklahoma City suburb this week may have created $2 billion or more in damage as it tore through as many as 13,000 homes, multiple schools and a hospital, officials said Wednesday as they gave the first detailed account of the devastation.

    Updated: Yesterday at 10:38 pm EDT
  • Neighbors rescue person from vehicle after crash

    Neighbors rescue person from vehicle after crash

    HAMPTON, Va. -- Rescue crews worked to pull a vehicle from New Market Creek following a crash Wednesday morning.

    Updated: Yesterday at 11:15 pm EDT
  • Student expelled over same-sex relationship

    Student expelled over same-sex relationship

    PALM BAY, Fla. -- A father says a case of love versus the law has left his daughter, a high school student, facing criminal charges that could land her in prison and require her to register as a sex offender.

    Updated: Yesterday at 11:05 pm EDT
  • Anthony Weiner launches bid to become NYC mayor

    Anthony Weiner launches bid to become NYC mayor

    NEW YORK -- Anthony Weiner knows there may be a lot of New Yorkers who would never consider voting for him again, but he says he's running for mayor because he wants to bring his ideas to the fore -- and win.

    Updated: Yesterday at 8:41 pm EDT
  • Baby born after mother dies, comes back to life

    Baby born after mother dies, comes back to life

    UNDATED-- A Texas high school teacher's heart wasn't beating when she delivered her baby, but three of her co-workers are credited with saving her life and her newborn's.

    Updated: Yesterday at 5:39 pm EDT
  • Investigators searched Holmes' bank records, iPod

    Investigators searched Holmes' bank records, iPod

    CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- James Holmes received six shipments of ammunition from an online retailer, carried a platinum MasterCard and photographed the door to the movie theater where he allegedly killed 12 people and injured 70, according to court records released Wednesday.

    Updated: Yesterday at 3:56 pm EDT
  • Flooding forces evacuation of 1,300 in ND town

    Flooding forces evacuation of 1,300 in ND town

    BISMARCK, N.D.-- A dam that threatened to give way and flood a North Dakota town was holding back the water on Wednesday, though the 1,300 residents of Cavalier were still being told to stay away from their homes

    Updated: Yesterday at 3:35 pm EDT
  • Jury in Jodi Arias trial resumes deliberations

    Jury in Jodi Arias trial resumes deliberations

    PHOENIX -- Jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial resume deliberations Thursday after they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or death for killing her one-time boyfriend, prompting the judge to instruct them to keep trying.

    Updated: Today at 4:36 am EDT
  • Man who kidnapped 2 Iowa girls had long record

    Man who kidnapped 2 Iowa girls had long record

    IOWA CITY, Iowa-- Police say a man who enticed two girls to enter his pickup truck near a rural Iowa bus stop had a long criminal history that saw him ordered for sex offender treatment when he was a teenager.

    Updated: Yesterday at 3:04 pm EDT
  • Chicago Board of Ed votes to close 50 schools

    Chicago Board of Ed votes to close 50 schools

    CHICAGO-- The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close 50 schools and programs, an ambitious plan that has sparked protests and lawsuits and could help define -- for better or worse -- Mayor Rahm Emanuel's term in office.

    Updated: Yesterday at 4:54 pm EDT
  • Highway patrol: 29 hurt in Ohio bus, car crash

    Highway patrol: 29 hurt in Ohio bus, car crash

    BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- The State Highway Patrol says 29 people have been injured in a crash between a commercial bus and a car on Interstate 75 in northwest Ohio.

    Updated: Yesterday at 8:02 am EDT
  • Boy Scout leaders to vote on lifting gay ban

    Boy Scout leaders to vote on lifting gay ban

    GRAPEVINE, Texas -- The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban openly gay boys belonging to the scouting movement.

    Updated: Yesterday at 8:00 am EDT
  • Complaint accuses Exxon Mobil of anti-gay bias

    Complaint accuses Exxon Mobil of anti-gay bias

    NEW YORK-- One after another, major U.S. corporations have updated anti-discrimination policies to protect gay, lesbian and transgender workers, drawing plaudits from gay-rights groups. There's one prominent exception: Exxon Mobil Corp.

    Updated: Yesterday at 12:00 pm EDT
  • Cleveland kidnapping victims 'happy and safe'

    Cleveland kidnapping victims 'happy and safe'

    CLEVELAND -- The three women rescued after being held captive in a Cleveland house for about a decade say they are doing fine.

    Updated: Yesterday at 8:18 am EDT
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