Tag: Nation

NYC settles suit by abused foster kids for $9.7M

Tom McElroy · December 7, 2012 2:06 am

This combo made from undated photos provided by the FBI shows cousins Lyric Cook, 10, right, and Elizabeth Collins, 8, who have been missing since Friday, July 13, 2012. Authorities say hunters have found bodies believed to be two young Iowa cousins who disappeared while riding their bikes in July. (AP Photo/FBI)

Authorities ‘confident’ bodies are 2 Iowa cousins

DAVID PITTRYAN J. FOLEY · December 7, 2012 1:34 am

A police vehicle is parked near the entrance of North Shore High School after a shooting occurred Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, in Houston. Police say a high school student taken into custody after he sent a text message to a friend saying he wanted to hurt himself shot himself with a hidden gun while handcuffed inside a patrol car. Authorities on Thursday said deputies did not conduct a complete search of the student, and failed to find the hidden gun. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Cody Duty) MANDATORY CREDIT

Search of student who shot himself was incomplete

Juan Lozano · December 7, 2012 1:25 am

Former Nazi guard appeals to immigration board

Matthew Barakat · December 7, 2012 1:10 am

FILE - This March 16, 2012 file photo shows researcher Terry Storm working in a stem cell research lab at the Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif. A report by the Institute of Medicine released Thursday Dec. 6, 2012 said Californiaâs stem cell agency has done a good job of supporting research but said improvements are needed. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)

Report: Calif. stem cell agency needs overhaul

alicia-chang · December 7, 2012 12:36 am

LA district wants to settle claims over teacher

Christina Hoag · December 7, 2012 12:28 am

Marine brig officials grilled about GI’s jailing

David Dishneau · December 7, 2012 12:02 am

In this Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 photo, Brittany Mariscal, an entomological technician with the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, sorts and counts dead captured mosquitoes under a microscope in Key West, Fla. Mosquito control officials in the Florida Keys are waiting for the federal government to sign off on an experiment that would release hundreds of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes to reduce the risk of dengue fever in this tourist town. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Gene-altered mosquitoes could be used vs. dengue

Jennifer Kay · December 6, 2012 11:57 pm

PSU won’t pursue discipline for sorority photos

Genaro Armas · December 6, 2012 11:54 pm

West Texas WWII vet to get posthumous purple heart

JUAN CARLOS LLORCA · December 6, 2012 11:44 pm

APNewsBreak: Files show images of missing Utah mom

Mike Baker · December 6, 2012 11:34 pm

Mike Momany smokes marijuana, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, just after midnight at the Space Needle in Seattle. Possession of marijuana became legal in Washington state at midnight, and several hundred people gathered at the Space Needle to smoke and celebrate the occasion, even though the new law does prohibit public use of marijuana. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Legal pot in Wash. state – questions and answers

Chris Grygiel · December 6, 2012 11:25 pm