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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (AP) -- In an unusually early and strong warning, national weather forecasters cautioned Friday that conditions are ripe for violent tornadoes to rip through the nation's midsection from Texas to Minnesota this weekend....

MODESTO, Calif. (AP) -- Police found a body Friday inside a fire-gutted California home where a suspect had barricaded himself after a deputy and a civilian were shot and killed....

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A defense attorney says a man facing murder and hate crime charges in a Tulsa shooting spree that killed three people and terrorized the city's black community wasn't motivated by race....

CLEVELAND (AP) -- An Ohio woman shot by her husband inside a crowded Cracker Barrel restaurant had told police two days earlier they had been fighting recently and he had threatened to take their children if she returned to their house....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pressuring Mitt Romney on taxes, President Barack Obama's campaign re-released more than a decade of tax records Friday, a political maneuver designed to pressure the Republican presidential candidate to divulge tax records beyond two years and to stop "hiding" details of his huge personal wealth....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pressuring Mitt Romney on taxes, President Barack Obama's campaign re-released more than a decade of tax records Friday, a political maneuver designed to pressure the Republican presidential candidate to divulge tax records beyond two years and to stop "hiding" details of his huge personal wealth....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pressuring Mitt Romney on taxes, President Barack Obama's campaign re-released more than a decade of tax records Friday, a political maneuver designed to pressure the Republican presidential candidate to divulge tax records beyond two years and to stop "hiding" details of his huge personal wealth....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pressuring Mitt Romney on taxes, President Barack Obama's campaign re-released more than a decade of tax records Friday, a political maneuver designed to pressure the Republican presidential candidate to divulge tax records beyond two years and to stop "hiding" details of his huge personal wealth....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Know how to go to Mars cheaply? NASA can use your help....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Know how to go to Mars cheaply? NASA can use your help....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Know how to go to Mars cheaply? NASA can use your help....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Know how to go to Mars cheaply? NASA can use your help....

Despite safety and cost arguments from the insurance industry and the medical community, Michigan's Republican Gov. Rick Snyder announced Friday that he had signed into law a repeal of the state's mandatory motorcycle helmet law.

His nod for repeal comes as welcome news to bikers around the state, many of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's hopes of using diplomacy to defuse an unpredictable, nuclear-equipped North Korea fizzled with that country's failed rocket launch, leaving Obama with little to show for his overture to the new North Korean leader....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A boy who was 11 when he was accused of killing his father's pregnant fiancée and her unborn son was found guilty Friday of their 2009 shotgun slayings....

SEATTLE (AP) -- A civilian attorney for the soldier charged in the shooting deaths of 17 Afghan villagers says his client will not participate in an Army review aimed at determining his mental state....

DETROIT (AP) -- A city infamous for its unemployment, decay, crime and population loss would seem an odd place for an upscale natural and organic grocery chain to plant roots, but yuppie favorite Whole Foods is taking a gamble on the Motor City....

NEW YORK (AP) -- After seven years as a couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are finally engaged....

MIAMI (AP) -- The civil rights groups that turned outrage over Trayvon Martin's death into action say their work is far from over now that his killer has been charged with second-degree murder. Next, they hope to harness the activism to challenge Florida's "stand your ground" law and similar statutes in 24 other states....

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A recently deceased Ohio autoworker convicted of Nazi war crimes should have his U.S. citizenship restored because the American government withheld potentially helpful material, his attorneys said....