Updated: 11:32 AM New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is urging witnesses to come forward after gunmen opened fire on a neighborhood Mother's Day parade.

Updated: 4:51 PM Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates forcefully defended the Obama administration on Sunday against charges that it did not do enough to prevent the tragedy in Benghazi, telling CBS' "Face the Nation" that some critics of the administration have a "cartoonish impression of military capabilities and military forces."

Posted: 9:38 PM The sheriff of Virginia's Caroline County says he's examined the paperwork, and the burial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the county appears to have been legal.

Updated: 8:41 PM Britain's Prince Harry and U.S. swimming superstar Missy Franklin are getting the Warrior Games off to a touching start, escorting a blind Navy officer to light the Olympic-style flame.

Updated: 9:49 PM A federal watchdog's upcoming report says senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups in 2011.

Updated: 9:48 PM As relatives of the Cleveland kidnapping and rape suspect recounted claims of his unnerving paranoia and violent outbursts, DNA testing confirmed the man accused of holding three women captive for nearly a decade is the father of a 6-year-old girl who also escaped from the house.

Updated: 9:48 PM Spacewalking astronauts have replaced an ammonia pump outside the International Space Station in hopes of plugging a serious leak.

Posted: 11:03 AM Newtown parents Steven Uhde and Peter Barresi didn't want the town to abandon the elementary school property where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in December and build a new school elsewhere, saying that would be like letting the gunman win.

Updated: 11:00 PM The Federal Aviation Administration is keeping open for now the 149 control towers at small airports that were slated to close as the result of governmentwide automatic spending cuts imposed by Congress.

Posted: 8:21 PM The White House says Friday's public disclosure of emails related to the attack on a U.S. compound in Libya is an attempt by Republicans to "politicize" the investigation.

Updated: 7:11 PM The student veteran population at Texas A&M is increasing every year as more service men and women return home from battle. Now, thanks to several veterans groups on campus, these proud veterans are getting recognized during graduation.

Posted: 11:50 AM The loss for the financial quarter ending March 31 was narrower than a $3.2 billion loss for the same period last year

Updated: 11:49 AM Spacewalk may be needed to fix space station leak

Updated: 9:20 AM HOUSTON (AP) - A celebrated piece of fictional space travel history is to go on display at Space Center Houston.

Posted: 8:30 AM COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates is addressing graduates of the University of South Carolina.

Posted: 8:21 AM A couple is dead after a plane crashed in Fredericksburg Thursday afternoon.

Updated: 9:38 AM A 72-foot-long, high-tech catamaran sailboat capsized Thursday in San Francisco Bay while practicing for the America's Cup races this summer, killing an Olympic gold medalist from England and injuring another sailor, authorities said.

Posted: 7:26 AM The International Space Station has a radiator leak in its power system. The outpost's commander calls the situation serious, but not life-threatening.

Posted: 10:59 PM A defense lawyer says a Tunisian man arrested in New York and accused of trying to stay in the United States illegally to build a terrorism cell denies the accusations.

Posted: 2:01 PM President Barack Obama says the American economy is, in his words, "poised for progress."

Updated: 11:32 AM Former Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman says failures by national security agencies tainted investigations into the Boston bombing plotters - and says the scheme could have been discovered beforehand.

Updated: 10:39 AM Ryan Polly, who ran in the 2013 Boston Marathon but was still a mile from the finish line when the tragic bombing occurred, has launched a fast-growing petition on Change.org asking the Boston Athletic Association (BAA) to allow thousands of runners in his situation to get a second chance to run the race.

Updated: 9:28 AM President Barack Obama wants to show that creating well-paying middle-class jobs is still a priority.

Posted: 7:47 AM Boston's police commissioner told lawmakers conducting the first congressional hearing on the Marathon bombings that government should tighten security around celebratory public events and consider using more undercover officers, special police units and technology, including surveillance cameras - but only in ways that don't run afoul of civil liberties.

Posted: 7:26 AM Carol Wilkins leaned over the side of her father's wheelchair and handed him the small red box, a heart-shaped cutout revealing its contents: a weathered, bent silver dog tag.