Posted: 7:42 AM Authorities say a high school student pulled out a gun and shot himself in a classroom at a Cincinnati area high school.

Posted: 1:11 AM Following New York City's lead, state lawmakers have taken up the cause to raise the minimum age for cigarette purchases from 18 to 21 statewide.

Posted: 1:43 PM Police say a man stabbed four people at a Catholic church in Albuquerque as a Sunday mass was nearing its end.

Posted: 1:08 PM The rugged washboard road that leads tourists to the Grand Canyon Skywalk is getting paved.

Posted: 12:52 PM Storms around Houston, Texas, have dumped several inches of rain, leaving thousands of people without electricity and forcing about 150 high-water rescues.

Posted: 12:46 PM A new report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered estimates of how much of a potent greenhouse gas is being leaked by the natural gas industry despite rapid growth in production.

Posted: 12:42 PM Boston hospitals say the number of patients being treated for injuries sustained in the marathon bombing continues to drop, two weeks after the attack that killed three and hurt more than 260.

Posted: 12:03 PM One of the architects of failed gun control legislation says he's bringing it back.

Posted: 10:42 AM A World War II veteran who provided the flag in the famous flag-raising on Iwo Jima has died. Alan Wood was 90.

Posted: 2:36 PM Some Republicans are challenging the claim their party must support more liberal immigration laws if it's to be more competitive in presidential elections.

Posted: 1:47 PM The FBI has concluded its search of a landfill near a Massachusetts college where the 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was a student.

Posted: 1:33 PM The New York City medical examiner's office plans to resume searching for human remains two blocks from the World Trade Center after the sudden discovery of an airplane's landing gear.

Updated: 1:27 PM Authorities have charged a Mississippi man with making and possessing ricin in the investigation into poison-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and others.

Updated: 4:04 PM The three-day Gathering of Nations, North America's largest powwow, drew more than 1,500 competitive dancers and tens of thousands of spectators from across the U.S. and parts of Canada and Mexico.

Posted: 3:45 PM A draft U.S. Department of Interior rule obtained by The Associated Press says roughly 6,000 wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes are enough to prevent the species' extinction

Posted: 3:20 PM The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints posted a statement on its website Thursday saying it's satisfied with the proposal, which the Boy Scouts announced last week and will submit to the BSA National Council at a meeting in Texas the week of May 20.

Updated: 8:20 PM New York Police believe they've found landing gear from plane involved in 911 attack

Posted: 12:30 AM New York City officials say the Boston Marathon bombing suspects intended to blow up their remaining explosives in Times Square.

Posted: 12:26 AM Top congressional Democrats are examining whether gaps in federal regulations might be placing at risk those who work and live near more than 6,000 fertilizer plants like the one that exploded in West, Texas.

Posted: 12:23 AM The Food and Drug Administration is detaining imports of cucumbers from a Mexican company after they were linked to salmonella illnesses in 18 states.

Updated: 12:24 AM The House is expected to vote Friday on a measure that would give the Federal Aviation Administration the budget flexibility needed to avoid furloughing air traffic controllers.

Posted: 2:48 PM FBI spokeswoman Deborah Madden would not comment on the investigation or possible search.

Posted: 2:46 PM Prince altered and incorporated several of the photographs in a series of paintings and collages titled "Canal Zone." The art was exhibited in 2007 and 2008.

Posted: 2:43 PM Nike Inc. has already pulled the T-shirts from the market.

Updated: 6:38 AM Firefighters from Mobile, Ala., and U.S. Coast Guard crews are responding to explosions and a fire on two fuel barges in the Mobile River.