Posted: 11:49 AM The Occupational Safety and Health Administration most recently inspected the Texas fertilizer plant that exploded Wednesday night in 1985.

Posted: 11:47 AM The sour mood is undermining support for President Barack Obama's economic stewardship and for government in general.

Posted: 11:45 AM President Barack Obama was briefed for an hour Friday morning on the developments in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation.

Posted: 11:02 AM As the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings illustrates, getting lost in the crowd is no longer an easy feat. There are eyes — and cameras — everywhere.

Posted: 10:59 AM Kaitlyn Greeley burst into tears when a car backfired the other day. She's afraid to take her usual train to her job at a Boston hospital, walking or taking cabs instead. She can't sleep.

Posted: 10:52 AM Published reports say Boeing's grounded 787 jetliners could soon be flying again. There was no immediate comment from the FAA and a Boeing spokesman declined to comment on the report.

Posted: 8:42 AM A bomb exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon moments after Berti finished the race. Two days later, he was in his home state of Texas when he saw a fertilizer plant explode near Waco.

Posted: 9:35 PM A judge in Oregon noticed an unexpected glow on a juror's chest while the courtroom lights were dimmed during video evidence in an armed-robbery trial.

Posted: 9:26 PM Churchill Downs has announced tighter security and expanded screening for patrons, employees and vendors.

Posted: 9:13 PM Rutgers University says fired men's basketball coach Mike Rice is receiving $475,000 under a settlement agreement.

Updated: 6:04 PM The FBI has released photos of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings and is asking for the public's help in identifying them.

Updated: 7:01 PM A report issued on Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that infant mortality rates declined 12 percent from 2005 through 2011.

Posted: 12:58 PM One day after the demise of gun control legislation, Senate supporters of the measure vowed to try again, while a leading opponent accused President Barack Obama of taking the "low road"

Posted: 12:46 PM The impassioned push for new gun laws, born from the slaughter of schoolchildren, has collided with the marble-hard realities of Congress.

Updated: 1:48 PM Paul Kevin Curtis appeared in a federal courtroom Thursday in Oxford, Miss., wearing shackles and a Johnny Cash T-shirt. His handcuffs were taken off during the brief hearing, and he said little.

Posted: 12:41 PM Twitter has launched a service for people to find music they like and tweet songs from iTunes, Spotify and Rdio.

Posted: 10:01 AM The Bruins hockey team and their fans had a special night on the ice and in the arena in honor of those affected by the Boston bombings.

Posted: 6:24 AM President Barack Obama is seeking to refocus a nervous nation's attention on those killed and gravely wounded in what he called an "act of terror" at the Boston Marathon.

Posted: 6:18 AM Mike Steenhout knows spreadsheets, statistics and bean-counting. He has worked as a budget assistant to the governor, managed local operations for the U.S. Census Bureau and analyzed juvenile crime databases.

Posted: 6:07 AM The painstaking work to identify a bombing suspect from reams of Boston Marathon footage yielded a possible breakthrough as investigators focused on a man seen dropping off a bag, and then walking away

Posted: 6:01 AM The mayor of West, Texas, says volunteer firefighters went to fight a fire at a fertilizer plant about a half-hour before a massive explosion tore through it and damaged surrounding buildings.

Updated: 9:55 AM A massive explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco on Wednesday injured dozens of people and killed an unknown number of others, leaving the factory a smoldering ruin and leveling buildings for blocks in every direction.

Posted: 10:25 PM Authorities say an explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas, has injured several people.

Posted: 8:32 PM In a major setback for gun control advocates, the Senate Wednesday voted down a key amendment to the embattled Democratic gun bill, signaling the increasingly dim prospects of any meaningful legislative action aimed at strengthening America's gun laws.

Posted: 8:23 PM There is an arrest in the investigation of recent mailings of ricin to federal officials.