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No quick fix for downed bridge on holiday weekend

AP Top news - 3 hours 9 min ago
Washington state officials are scrambling to find a temporary fix for a bridge that collapsed on an important interstate highway and, incredibly, left just three motorists with injuries. Whatever the solution, it won't come in time to help with Memorial Day's highway hoards.

Year later, Serena Williams seeks more in Paris

AP Sports News - 3 hours 24 min ago
As she prepares to start the French Open on Sunday against a much-lower-ranked opponent, Serena Williams says she learned something by exiting in the first round at Roland Garros 12 months ago.

Williams sisters entered in doubles at French Open

AP Sports News - 3 hours 24 min ago
Serena and Venus Williams are teaming up at the French Open for the first time in three years.

Thousands of bridges at risk of freak collapse

AP US News - 3 hours 24 min ago
Thousands of bridges around the U.S. may be one freak accident or mistake away from collapse, even if the spans are deemed structurally sound.

LA stoplights synchronized but road war endures

AP US News - 3 hours 24 min ago
It seems that the impossible has occurred: The nation's most congested city has become a model for traffic control.

David Beckham's soccer career officially over

AP Sports News - 3 hours 24 min ago
David Beckham's soccer career is officially over.

Penguins oust Sens in five, reach Eastern finals

AP Sports News - 3 hours 24 min ago
Boston or the New York Rangers? To be honest, Ottawa's Daniel Alfredsson doesn't think it matters who the Pittsburgh Penguins face in the Eastern Conference finals.

Grizzlies, Memphis ready to 'believe' vs Spurs

AP Sports News - 3 hours 24 min ago
The towels are showing up all around Memphis. They hang over neighborhood signs and even at a door to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Ohio doctor charged in pregnant woman's death

AP US News - 3 hours 34 min ago
Investigators say a former doctor going on trial this fall in Ohio raped a woman who was nine months pregnant, then killed her by injecting her with heroin.

Dead Pa. baby's dad believes in 'divine healing'

AP US News - 3 hours 39 min ago
After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care.

After vote on gay youth, Scouts face more turmoil

AP US News - 3 hours 51 min ago
The Boy Scouts of America will get no reprieve from controversy after a contentious vote to accept openly gay boys as Scouts.

W.Va. town transfixed by teen girls' murder plot

AP US News - 3 hours 56 min ago
For nearly nine months, the people of this small West Virginia town saw the face of missing 16-year-old honors student Skylar Neese everywhere _ beaming at them from fliers on utility poles, in gas stations, even at the local tattoo parlor.

NYPD street stop policy's critics seek big changes

AP US News - 4 hours 19 min ago
It once was an accepted tactic as old as policing itself and, according to the New York Police Department, a key to the city's dramatic drop in crime: patrol officers stopping young men on the street to see if they're up to no good.

Thousands of bridges at risk of freak collapse

AP US News - 4 hours 19 min ago
Thousands of bridges around the United States may be one freak accident or mistake away from collapse, even if the spans are deemed structurally sound.

Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81

AP US News - 4 hours 42 min ago
When Haynes Johnson visited Selma, Ala., months after a civil rights crisis there gripped the nation, he wrote in The Washington Evening Star that he'd found "no discernible change in the racial climate of the city." When it came to employment, housing or education, blacks had made no real gains.

Deaths at Atlanta VA hospital prompt scrutiny

AP US News - 4 hours 56 min ago
Four deaths at the Atlanta VA Medical Center mark the latest in a series of problems plaguing Veterans Affairs, prompting outrage from officials and congressional scrutiny of the largest integrated health care system in the country.

Jury convicts former South Texas DA of corruption

AP US News - 4 hours 56 min ago
A former Texas prosecutor and one-time candidate for Congress was convicted Friday of accepting bribes in exchange for court favors, including an $80,000 payment in a scheme that allowed a convicted murder to escape.

Rescuers look for pilot in deadly NY Angel Flight

AP US News - 5 hours 29 min ago
Divers searched a large pond while investigators combed nearby woods Saturday for any sign of the pilot of a volunteer Angel Flight that crashed, killing two passengers.

Friend of alleged soldier killer arrested at BBC

AP Top news - 5 hours 34 min ago
Counterterrorism police on Saturday questioned a friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of two suspects in the killing of an unarmed British soldier, a savage attack that has horrified Britain.

Improving economy changes political landscape

AP Top news - 5 hours 34 min ago
Alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies gives the GOP something else to talk about and investigate as the economy clearly, if slowly, recovers on President Barack Obama's watch, robbing Republicans of a central argument against Democrats.

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