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PALMVIEW, Texas (AP) -- A 15-year-old South Texas boy charged with nine counts of murder after he crashed a minivan packed with illegal immigrants, killing nine of them, cried and expressed remorse before a judge Monday, police said....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Getting news from a big trial once took days, moving at the speed of a carrier pigeon or an express pony. The telegraph and telephone cut that time dramatically, as did live television broadcasts....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans accused President Barack Obama of pitting Americans against each other as they moved Monday toward blocking a Democratic attempt in the Senate to impose Obama's "Buffett rule" taxes on the rich. Democrats said it was time for the tax code to treat the wealthy and the middle class fairly....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Fire tore through a row house early Monday, killing two young children and two adults in the city's third fatal blaze in a week....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Trial is winding down for a former NASA-affiliated computer specialist who alleges he was fired because of his belief in intelligent design....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of U.S. military members under investigation for alleged misconduct at a Colombia hotel on the eve of President Barack Obama's visit over the weekend may be greater than the five originally cited, officials said Monday....

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Space shuttle Discovery has one last mission to complete....

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Space shuttle Discovery has one last mission to complete....

THURMAN, Iowa (AP) -- Concerned that Midwesterners might be complacent after repeated tornado warnings came to nothing, forecasters issued a sternly worded alert, well in advance, that weekend storms could prove fatal....

BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney has tapped a longtime adviser to begin his search for a vice presidential candidate....

BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney has tapped a longtime adviser to begin his search for a vice presidential candidate....

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Students were headed to class Monday at Virginia Tech, the first year the school hasn't suspended instruction to mark the anniversary of a 2007 rampage that left 32 people and the gunman dead....

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Students were headed to class Monday at Virginia Tech, the first year the school hasn't suspended instruction to mark the anniversary of a 2007 rampage that left 32 people and the gunman dead....

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Each anniversary since the April 2007, massacre on the Virginia Tech campus, classes have been suspended for the day in memory of the 32 students and faculty killed in the rampage by a lone gunman who then killed himself....

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) -- When a tornado shrouded in darkness and wrapped in rain dropped quickly from the sky above this northwest Oklahoma town, many residents relied on television weathermen to warn them of impending devastation. Others learned of the monster twister from neighbors or calls from frantic relatives....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- David Coppedge, a former computer specialist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, spent much of his free time advocating for the idea that a higher intelligence must have had a hand in creation. Now, a judge will decide if his commitment to that belief has also cost him his job....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's proposal to impose a "Buffett rule" tax on the rich is generating enormous political wattage, but the plan itself would directly affect only a tiny fraction of Americans....

THURMAN, Iowa (AP) -- Concerned that Midwesterners might be complacent after repeated tornado warnings came to nothing, forecasters issued a sternly worded alert, well in advance, that weekend storms could prove fatal....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A man whose response to jury duty was "No, no, no, no, no" and who said he would rather be sleeping was nevertheless found qualified to remain a potential juror in Roger Clemens' perjury trial, which won't finish seating a panel before Monday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department, embarrassed by blundering into a mistrial of Roger Clemens last year, has added more prosecutors as it tries again to convict the famed pitcher of lying to Congress when he said he never used performance-enhancing drugs....