Charges Dropped Against Man in Ricin Letters Case
Updated: 5:41 PM A court filing says charges have been dropped against a Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others.
Updated: 5:41 PM A court filing says charges have been dropped against a Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others.
Updated: 11:18 AM An analysis of more than 33,000 cases of foodborne illness shows that ground beef and chicken have caused more hospitalizations than other meats.
Posted: 10:46 AM A Texas trucker who drove cocaine to western Pennsylvania in his tractor-trailer has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
Posted: 10:41 AM Senior Army officials are warning they may have to cut as many as 100,000 more soldiers over the next decade unless the automatic spending reductions forcing the military services to slash their budgets are stopped.
Posted: 10:33 AM Katherine Russell was a talented artist, a good student who grew up Christian, the daughter of a suburban doctor.
Posted: 9:47 AM Robert Bales, the U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians during a 2012 rampage, is scheduled in court Tuesday for another hearing.
Posted: 9:00 AM OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - More discussion is likely Tuesday of the mental state of the Mississippi man accused of mailing poisoned letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a local judge.
Posted: 8:58 AM As airlines prepare to resume flying Boeing's beleaguered 787 Dreamliners, federal investigators looked Tuesday at how regulators and the company tested and approved the plane's cutting-edge battery system, and whether the government cedes too much safety-testing authority to aircraft makers.
Posted: 8:58 AM CLARKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) - The rain that's expected from Oklahoma to Michigan through today could bring some stretches of rivers to an even higher crest than had been forecast earlier.
Posted: 8:55 AM TORONTO (AP) - Canadian authorities say two men accused of plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train were working with "direction and guidance" from al-Qaida members in Iran.
Updated: 9:00 AM COLLEGE STATION, April 23, 2013 – Coming soon to a beach near you: a “drift card” washing up on Gulf of Mexico shores that is part of a research project at Texas A&M University to study ocean currents.
Posted: 8:01 AM Parked around the airstrip at Lackland Air Force Base are more than a dozen massive C-5A Galaxy transport planes. There is no money to fly them, repair them or put pilots in the cockpits, but Congress rejected the Air Force's bid to retire them.
Posted: 7:47 AM The Boston Marathon bombings could provide an opportunity for the U.S. and Russia to find some common ground for cooperation as authorities investigate the two ethnic Chechens accused of carrying out the attack.
Posted: 7:35 AM The Environmental Protection Agency again is raising objections to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry oil from western Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast.
Posted: 6:24 AM An Army sergeant at Fort Carson has received the U.S. military's third-highest combat medal for intercepting a suicide bomber in Afghanistan in August.
Posted: 6:03 AM As family members of his victims looked on, Army Sgt. John Russell described on Monday how in 2009 he rampaged at a mental health clinic in Baghdad during the Iraq War, killing four soldiers and a Navy officer.
Updated: 12:17 AM Two U.S. officials say preliminary evidence from an interrogation suggests the suspects in the Boston Marathon attack were motivated by religion but were apparently not tied to any Islamic terrorist groups.
Updated: 8:27 PM Up and down the East Coast, airports are reporting flight delays. This is the first weekday on which thousands of air traffic controllers are being forced to take an unpaid day off because of federal budget cuts.
Updated: 1:09 PM The U.S. Attorney General says the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has been charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction against persons and property resulting in death.
Updated: 9:03 AM The White House says President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service for victims of the fertilizer plant explosion in the town of West, Texas.
Posted: 10:30 AM The father of the two Boston bombing suspects says he will travel from Russia to the United States this week to seek "justice and the truth."
Posted: 10:26 AM It was a tough start to the week for many air travelers as federal budget cuts led to cascading delays along the East Coast Monday morning.
