Probe begins after Conn. commuter trains crash
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in a crash that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor.... 5/18/2013 10:33 AM

OJ's ex-lawyer contradicts his testimony on guns
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- O.J. Simpson's former lawyer defended himself point-by-point Friday against allegations he botched the former football star's armed-robbery trial, after giving damaging testimony that Simpson actually knew his buddies had guns when they went to a hotel room together to reclaim some sports memorabilia.... 5/18/2013 3:26 AM

Pa. coffee run leads to hatchet hitchhiker arrest
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) -- Two cups of coffee ended life on the run for an Internet sensation known as Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker.... 5/18/2013 12:39 AM

Will Boy Scouts accept gay youth? Vote is imminent
With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units.... 5/18/2013 10:22 AM

Powerball jackpot closing in on another record
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A little more than a year after three tickets split a world-record lottery prize, the jackpot for Saturday's Powerball drawing was nearing historic territory.... 5/18/2013 9:49 AM

Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) -- A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals.... 5/18/2013 9:51 AM

A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute.... 5/18/2013 9:43 AM

Parking fees at California state beaches heat up
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- With the unofficial kickoff to summer looming, the issue of parking at California state beaches is heating up.... 5/18/2013 10:43 AM

NM mom: I followed instincts in chasing abductor
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Melissa Torrez didn't even think when teenagers in her apartment complex said a man had just grabbed her 4-year-old girl and drove away.... 5/17/2013 6:41 PM

Cops investigating after NY college student killed
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) -- Last Sunday Andrea Rebello, a 21-year-old Hofstra University junior studying public relations, posted a recipe for how to prepare July 4-themed strawberries covered in sparkling sugars on her blog.... 5/18/2013 3:12 AM