Celebrities are coming forward to send support and words of encouragement to people and communities affected by Monday's tornado near Oklahoma City.

CBS has taken the scheduled season-ending episode of "Mike & Molly" off the air because its plot line revolved around a tornado threatening the couple.

Police say they believe a missing Utah woman's brother-in-law was "heavily involved" in getting rid of her body.

Transit authorities say commuter rail service in Connecticut is expected to resume in full by rush hour Wednesday morning, five days after a derailment and crash injured scores of passengers.

The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., had wind speeds up to 200 mph.

The White House says White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler was first informed about an audit of the IRS' inappropriate targeting of conservative groups on April 24 and that she notified senior staff, including Denis McDonough, the chief of staff to President Barack Obama.

United Airlines is again flying the 787, four months after smoldering batteries forced the plane to be grounded worldwide.

The Jodi Arias murder trial has wrapped up for the day and will continue Tuesday with the defendant speaking to the jury.

Authorities say a van carrying church members returning from a California religious gathering careened off of a southern Illinois freeway and overturned several times, killing five people and hospitalizing six others.

Oklahoma's state medical examiner's office says a second person was killed by a tornado that leveled a central Oklahoma mobile home park.

United Airlines is getting its 787s back in the air.

One of several tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system rumbling through the Plains and Midwest has leveled several mobile homes in an area southeast of Oklahoma City.

Amtrak officials say a train departing from New Orleans derailed not far from Chicago's Union Station.

Two FBI agents have been killed in a training accident in Virginia.

The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 11 cents over the past two weeks.

The man who police say hurled homophobic slurs at a gay man on a Manhattan street before firing a single fatal shot to his head has been charged with murder as a hate crime.

Trace amounts of ash from a remote Alaska volcano have fallen on an Aleutian Islands community, but the latest ash cloud remained just under the 20,000-foot threshold considered to be a major threat to trans-continental aircraft.

A senior White House adviser insists President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had been targeting tea party groups "when it came out in the news."

President Barack Obama will address the legality of his administration's controversial drone program during a speech this week.

The transit agency that runs the Metro-North commuter rail line says trains damaged in a Friday crash in Connecticut are being removed in the first step to making repairs and restoring service.

An emergency official says authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did not cause the crash intentionally.

A lottery official says 1 winning ticket has been sold in Florida for a record Powerball jackpot of more than $590 million.

Witnesses in southwestern Virginia say a car has driven into a crowd at a parade. Several people appear to be hurt, but the nature of their injuries wasn't immediately known.

Police have identified the alleged home invader involved in the death of a New York college student early Friday morning.

Police say a gunman used anti-gay slurs before fatally shooting a 32-year-old man in New York City's Greenwich (GREN'-ich) Village.