Nation & World

  • Photos Principal recounts tornado hitting Oklahoma school

    Teachers and students at Plaza Towers Elementary School hunkered down against the storm just as they had been taught in countless tornado drills, their principal said Friday, recounting how she walked the halls until the twister was on the doorstep, then announced on the intercom, "It's here."

  • Photos Officials scale back search for abducted Iowa teen

    Authorities are scaling back their search for a missing Iowa teenager abducted from a rural school bus stop this week.

  • FDA warns of infections tied to Tennessee pharmacy

    Health officials are investigating cases involving patients who suffered complications after being injected with potentially contaminated medications made by a Tennessee specialty pharmacy.

  • Parolee indicted in theft of Gold Rush jewelry box

    A parolee was indicted by a federal grand jury in the theft of a valuable Gold Rush-era jewelry box from the Oakland Museum of California, authorities said Friday.

  • Man accused of killing 5 in Illinois takes stand

    A 34-year-old man accused of killing five members of a central Illinois family with a tire iron took the witness stand Friday, wiping away tears as he painted a horrifying picture of the murder scene.

  • Photos Links Ill. House approves guns plan opposed by governor

    Gun owners could carry concealed weapons in Illinois, the last state in the nation to prohibit it, under legislation that swept through the House Friday with the backing of the powerful Democratic speaker from Chicago, a city torn by violence despite what critics claim are the nation's toughest firearms restrictions.

  • Canada: Qatar gives up bid to relocate UN agency

    Qatar has abandoned its bid to relocate the United Nations civil aviation agency from Canada to the tiny emirate, ending a bitter fight between the two nations, both countries said Friday.

  • Photos 18 hurt in shuttle bus crash near Atlanta airport

    Eighteen people were taken to the hospital Friday, at least two in serious condition, after they were hurt in a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's airport, officials said.

  • Photos Links Calif. plastic ocean debris bill dies in committee

    A California bill that would have required manufacturers to figure out how to keep the most common plastic junk out of state waterways died in the state Assembly without a vote Friday.

  • Links Biographer regrets affair with former CIA director

    The biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus triggered his resignation says she regrets the relationship and the harm and grief it caused her family.