AP - Two men have been charged with the murders of five teenage boys who were last seen together on a busy street more than 30 years ago.

AP - Tea party activists aren't just angry that Democrats passed a major health care overhaul, they are out for revenge.

AP - Last year, when the Red River burst over its banks and flooded hundreds of homes in Fargo, Richard Thomas' stayed dry thanks to a giant worm-looking plastic dam invented by a California man experimenting with water balloons in his bathtub.

AP - A retired Army colonel running for a U.S. Senate seat from Arkansas is criticizing a state law that prevents him from using his military title as a nickname on the ballot this spring. In Arkansas, that's a privilege reserved for monikers such as Porky, Bubba and Two.

AP - Federal prosecutors are considering filing weapons charges against former top officials of the Blackwater Worldwide private security company over allegations they illegally stockpiled automatic rifles at the company's North Carolina headquarters, The Associated Press has learned.

AP - A retired Army colonel running for a U.S. Senate seat from Arkansas is criticizing a state law that prevents him from using his military title as a nickname on the ballot this spring. In Arkansas, that's a privilege reserved for monikers such as Porky, Bubba and Two.

AP - At least two Pittsburgh paramedics will be disciplined in the death of a man who waited 30 hours for an ambulance during a powerful snowstorm last month.

AP - A prosecutor says a Cleveland serial-killing suspect's psychiatric exam was a public record, nearly a week after a reporter who wrote about it was threatened with jail.

AP - A Florida man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for violating his probation by trying to break into the Brevard County jail.

AP - Two men have been charged with murder in the disappearance of five teenage boys who were last seen together on a busy street more than 30 years ago.

AP - Federal prosecutors are considering weapons charges against former executives at Blackwater Worldwide over allegations the private security company illegally stockpiled automatic rifles at its North Carolina headquarters, The Associated Press has learned.

AP - A judge on Tuesday convicted a top crime scene investigator of evidence tampering, after prosecutors argued that the investigator planted blood from a slaying victim in a car linked to two innocent suspects to bolster the case against them.

AP - On an August night 32 years ago, authorities say, three men who believed five teenage boys had stolen their drugs herded them into an abandoned house at gunpoint, tied them up and set the building on fire, burning them alive and leaving no trace.

AP - An 84-year-old Connecticut woman battling with her 87-year-old sister for a share of a $500,00 lottery jackpot testified Tuesday that the two signed a contract to split gambling winnings, but that her sister told her she tore the agreement up and wouldn't share the money.

AP - A condemned man has asked Gov. Rick Perry to halt his execution so that DNA taken from the scene where his girlfriend and her sons were killed can be tested.

AP - A teenager accused of murder in the hate crime stabbing of an Ecadorean immigrant had tattoos depicting a swastika and a symbol he said represented 'white power,' witnesses testified Tuesday.

AP - In a neighborhood dotted with boarded up homes, trash and gang graffiti, McCoy Elementary has been an oasis.

AP - A Boston man facing trial in North Korea for illegally entering the communist country 'is not a terrorist' but a deeply religious English teacher dedicated to his students, a friend told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

AP - Scientists conducting a survey for the U.S. military say they photographed an endangered right whale giving birth near where the Navy plans to establish a training range off the coast of northern Florida.

AP - Two preteens assaulted a woman walking home through a playground as part of a violent game called 'Catch and Wreck,' in which children identify targets they think are homeless and then beat and rob them for fun, police said Tuesday.

AP - The gun used to kill three people during a faculty meeting at an Alabama school was bought for the suspect's husband two decades ago when he said he was having problems with a neighbor, an investigator testified Thursday.

AP - One night in 1978, five teenage boys disappeared without a trace in what would become one of the longest and most baffling missing-persons cases New Jersey has ever seen.

AP - A former South Carolina lawmaker is suing cable TV channels HBO and Showtime, claiming they promoted his low-budget comedy about Appalachia called 'The Hills Have Thighs' only to instead show a soft-core pornographic movie with the same title.

AP - One night in 1978, five teenage boys disappeared without a trace in what would become one of the longest and most baffling missing-persons cases New Jersey has ever seen.

AP - The school board in North Carolina's capital city narrowly agreed Tuesday to roll back a policy that buses students to achieve diversity, following a tense meeting at which three people were arrested, others were forcibly removed and heated arguments echoed passions from an era past.