Posted: 4:09 PM police recovered a body on Wednesday that has been confirmed as Jacque Sue Waller.

Posted: 3:03 PM A tornado on May 20 killed 24 people, including seven students at Plaza Towers. That school was being razed Thursday.

Posted: 2:47 PM The Arizona Department of Public Safety said the van and a pickup truck collided early Thursday when the truck crossed the center line on U.S. 191 three miles north of Douglas.

Posted: 2:03 PM A bipartisan group of Oklahoma lawmakers is teaming up with several businesses to start a fund to build safe rooms or underground shelters in public schools across the state.

Posted: 11:31 AM The Secret Service says a letter similar to ones sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been intercepted by a White House mail screening facility.

Posted: 10:47 AM Human Rights Watch says Egypt's draft law regulating non-governmental organizations would allow the government and its security agencies to restrict the funding and operation of independent groups.

Posted: 10:40 AM Turkey's military says it has returned fire after shots were fired at an armored personnel carrier from across the border with Syria.

Posted: 9:49 AM The political arm of the Republican Party is seeking any emails and documents that might exist between the State Department and President Barack Obama's re-election campaign about the deadly assault last year in Benghazi, Libya.

Posted: 5:01 AM In a small sign of progress during a big recovery effort, the Wichita-owned Warren Theater in Moore, Oklahoma opened its doors for business Wednesday.

Posted: 6:35 PM Sources say Obama plans to nominate James Comey, a former deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush.

Posted: 6:02 PM A police affidavit says a man used a fake Facebook account to lure a teenage girl out of her house in Maine in an attempt to stage her kidnapping and rescue so he could look like a hero

Posted: 5:38 PM Police said Wednesday the anonymous letters were opened Friday in New York at the city's mail facility and Sunday in Washington at an office used by the nonprofit started by Bloomberg.

Posted: 4:44 PM Switzerland said Wednesday it will allow its banks to skirt the country's strict client secrecy laws in order to end a long-running dispute with the United States over tax evasion by American clients with hidden accounts.

Posted: 4:37 PM Hundreds of activists including pop star Ricky Martin are calling for the release of a 70-year-old Puerto Rican nationalist who was a member of a pro-independence militant group.

Posted: 3:42 PM Staff Sgt. Robert Bales will enter the plea June 5 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle.

Posted: 3:32 PM An advocacy group is demanding a civil rights investigation into the death of a Chechen immigrant who was shot to death by authorities in central Florida while being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

Posted: 3:25 PM The Southern Baptist Convention will likely recommend that its 47,000 U.S. churches pull away from the Boy Scouts of America.

Posted: 10:37 AM A military investigation has determined human error was to blame for a March mortar explosion that killed seven U.S. Marines in Nevada.

Posted: 10:21 AM New revelations that China used cyberattacks to access data from nearly 40 Pentagon weapons programs and almost 30 other defense technologies have increased pressure on U.S. leaders to take more strident action against Beijing to stem the persistent breaches.

Updated: 10:16 AM NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (AHN'-derz fohg RAHS'-moo-sihn) will visit the White House on Friday.

Updated: 3:33 AM A video posted by Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann on YouTube announced she would not seek a fifth term in Congress in 2014.

Posted: 9:24 PM No injuries were reported after the explosion by the area was evacuated.

Posted: 2:10 PM Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has pleaded guilty to charges the company dumped hazardous waste in California.

Updated: 2:10 PM Baltimore County fire officials say a train has derailed in a Baltimore suburb and an explosion was heard in the area.

Posted: 12:20 PM Police and hospital officials say bombings and gunfire in central and northern Iraq have killed at least 11 people and wounded nearly three dozen others today, as a wave of violence edges the country closer to all-out internal warfare.