• One child missing, one killed in Minnesota field trip landslide
  Authorities said they would continue their search Thursday for a Minnesota child who remained missing after a gravel slide swept several children on a school fossil-hunting trip into a pit, killing one.The fourth-graders from a St. Louis Park elementary school were hiking in Lilydale Regional Park on Wednesday when a steep slope soaked by rain gave way, authorities have said. Two trapped children ...
  
  
  
• Urban renewal? Census figures show cities surging
  New census estimates show that most of the nation's largest cities further enhanced their allure last year, posting strong population growth for a second straight year. Big cities surpassed the rate of growth of their surrounding suburbs at an even faster clip, a sign of America's continuing preference for urban living after the economic downturn quelled enthusiasm for less-crowded expanses. Farth...
  
  
  
• Amid the rubble, laughter and tears for one family devastated by tornado
  OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — A little treasure in the debris of a home that once welcomed Rebecca Garland's four grandchildren gave her such a delight as her friends and family scoured the mountain of rubble for any mementos left behind by Monday's powerful tornado.“This is where we measured the kids' height!” she exclaimed as her son Lee held up a piece of a wall showing the rising tick-marks as his th...
  
  
  
• Boy Scouts vote on gay members: What's at stake
  After years of emotional debate, the Boy Scouts of America are considering a proposal at their annual meeting to allow gay youths to participate openly in the popular organization for the first time.The exclusion of gay Scouts has been the subject of much wrangling and soul searching in the century-old organization -- from local troops and councils to online petitions to national board meetings. T...
  
  
  
• Tornado birth: Mom endures labor as twister destroys hospital
  When a devastating tornado touched down in Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon, Shayla Taylor was on the upper floor of the local hospital, in active labor with her second child.As the floor shook “like an earthquake” beneath her and ceiling tiles and insulation fell overhead, the 25-year-old huddled with four nurses, braving both the peak contractions of childbirth and the wrath of the worst twiste...
  
  
  
• Gov. Fallin on Obama’s visit: ‘We hope it brings encouragement’
  
  
  
  
• Portable emergency room heads to Okla.
  
  
  
  
• Surveillance camera captures gas theft
  
  
  
  
• Washington state man arrested over ricin letters
  SPOKANE, Wash. -- A 37-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin were discovered in Washington state last week.A grand jury indictment accuses Matthew Ryan Buquet of mailing a threatening communication to U.S. District Judge Fred Van Sickle at the federal courthouse on May 14.The indictment did not say anything about ricin. However, the U.S. Pos...
  
  
  
• Born to save her sister’s life, Marissa Ayala graduates from college
  
  
  
  
• In first public acknowledgement, Holder says 4 Americans died in US drone strikes
  The Obama administration publicly acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that U.S. drone strikes have killed four American citizens since 2009, including the previously undisclosed death of a North Carolina resident who left the United States for Pakistan and was later indicted on federal terrorism charges.Attorney General Eric Holder, in a letter to congressional leaders and chairman of key co...
  
  
  
• Tamerlan Tsarnaev involved in triple homicide, sources say
  
  
  
  
• Lessons learned from Joplin
  
• Honoring Carole and Carol
  

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