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ST. LOUIS (AP) — High winds swept through a beer tent where 200 people gathered after a Cardinals game Saturday, killing one and seriously injuring five others. But the owner of the St. Louis bar that hosted the crowd said it was lightning — not wind — that killed the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A moderate earthquake has rattled Southern California.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 4.1 quake struck 8:07 a.m. Saturday. It was centered along the San Andreas Fault near Devore, in San Bernardino County. Some buildings swayed in downtown Los Angeles, about 60 miles to the ...

NORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) — Peter Keller spent eight years carving his hole in the side of the mountain, camouflaging the rugged underground bunker with ferns and sticks and stocking it with a generator and ammunition boxes sealed in Ziploc bags. Suspected in the deaths of his wife, daughter and ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Police in Tucson, Ariz., say underwater searches have turned up no sign of a 6-year-old girl who disappeared from her home a week ago.

Lt. Fabian Pacheco said Friday that investigators working on Isabel Mercedes Celis' disappearance spent the night combing through the lake at a ...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A 200-pound black bear that wandered onto the University of Colorado campus has been relocated to the nearby Rocky Mountains.

State wildlife official Jennifer Churchill said Friday that the male bear was tagged and taken to a remote area of ponderosa pines, oak brush and chokeberry ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Look! Up in the sky! It's a ... space shuttle?

An unusual flying object came to New York from Washington on Friday — the space shuttle Enterprise.

Enterprise zoomed around the city, riding piggyback on top of a modified jumbo jet. Its trip included flyovers over ...

Growth in the U.S. economy slowed to 2.2 percent in the first quarter from 3 percent at the end of last year, even as unusually mild winter weather gave a strong boost to consumer spending and car sales, the Commerce Department reported Friday morning.

The growth slowdown primarily was due ...

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Calling it an "oversight," George Zimmerman's attorney said Friday the neighborhood watch volunteer did not disclose that a website had raised more than $200,000 for his defense, even though his family told the judge they would have trouble coming up with his bond.

"Quite honestly, with ...

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Mitt Romney's finally the last man standing, and he finally found the voice he'll need to overcome the formidable Democratic weapons of money, guilt and gilt.

"After 43 primaries and caucuses," he told a boisterous crowd in Manchester, N.H., where the marathon began, "after many long days and more ...

Under heavy pressure from farm groups, the Obama administration said Thursday it would drop an unpopular plan to prevent children from doing hazardous work on farms owned by anyone other than their parents.

The Labor Department said it is withdrawing proposed rules that would ban children younger than 16 from ...

Cove Point in Southern Maryland has become the latest flash point in the fight between the fossil fuels industry and its longtime foes in the environmental movement.

Citing a unique Carter-era agreement, the Sierra Club says it will veto plans by energy giant Dominion to build the first natural gas ...

LANSING, Mich. — A state board Thursday deadlocked on a proposal to put Michigan's contentious emergency financial manager law on November's ballot for possible repeal, dealing a major blow to a petition drive sparked in part by the state's deal to fix Detroit's troubled city finances.

The Michigan Board of ...

SEATTLE — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Border Patrol seeking to bar agents from making traffic stops, saying people are being pulled over and questioned "without reasonable suspicion."

The lawsuit stems from tensions between immigrants and the expanded presence of Border Patrol agents ...

One month after the chief restructuring officer for failed solar panel maker Solyndra reported no wrongdoing by the company, documents show federal investigators have remained busy in recent months scouring the company's financial documents, internal emails and computers.

The activity surrounding the criminal probe into Solyndra was revealed in bankruptcy ...

FLORIDA

TALLAHASSEE — A Florida Highway Patrol lieutenant who ordered the reopening of a fog- and smoke-shrouded interstate highway shortly before a series of crashes killed 11 people was unaware of the agency's procedures and had no formal training in opening and reopening roads, a state report said Thursday.

The ...

BRIDGEPORT, OHIO — The first-graders in Ohio Pack 109's Tiger Scouts didn't know or care their den mother was a lesbian at least not until the Boy Scouts of America disqualified her over the organization's ban on gays.

Now, parents who were aware of Jennifer Tyrell's sexual orientation well before ...

WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. — Steve Wohlen lay on his front lawn, blue, unconscious and barely breathing, overdosing on heroin.

His mother ran outside, frantically assembling a pen-like canister. Her heart pounding, she dropped to her knees and used the device to deliver two squirts up her son's nostrils.

Within ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida Highway Patrol lieutenant didn't have any formal training or know the procedures before he reopened a fog- and smoke-shrouded highway where a series of crashes killed 11 people in January, investigators said in a report released Thursday.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement report ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Wisconsin group challenging the constitutionality of a cross on a war memorial in Rhode Island says it expects to prevail without the type of long legal battle that unfolded over a prayer banner ordered removed this year from a public high school.

The Freedom From ...

NEW YORK — A construction crane owner was acquitted of manslaughter and all other charges Thursday in the May 2008 collapse of his 200-foot-tall rig that snapped apart and killed two workers, which fueled concerns about crane safety.

James Lomma sat expressionless, looking frozen, as a judge announced his verdict ...