By PAUL J. WEBER (AUSTIN, Texas, AP) — A Texas appeals court tossed the criminal conviction of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Thursday, saying there was insufficient… Read more »

By MARCIA DUNN A Virginia company is all set to make its first-ever supply run to the International Space Station. On the eve of its premiere rendezvous mission, Orbital Sciences… Read more »

By BRIDGET MURPHY (BOSTON, AP) — A homeless Boston man who police said turned in a backpack containing tens of thousands of dollars in cash and traveler’s checks said even… Read more »

By HANNAH DREIER (LYONS, Colo., AP) — Gerald Guntle dials his sister’s home multiple times a day, desperate to find out if she survived the widespread flooding that shattered the… Read more »

By BRETT ZONGKER, ERIC TUCKER and LOLITA C. BALDOR (WASHINGTON, AP) — A former Navy reservist went on a shooting rampage Monday inside a building at the heavily secured Washington… Read more »

By GENE JOHNSON and PHUONG LE (SEATTLE, AP) — The man identified as the shooter in the Washington Navy Yard slayings had been arrested in Seattle in 2004 for shooting… Read more »

By TAMMY WEBBER (CHICAGO, AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Coca-Cola signed a five-year agreement Friday to restore watersheds that have been damaged or altered by development, wildfires… Read more »

By SANDRA CHEREB and SCOTT SONNER (RENO, Nev., AP) — Anyone expecting a sweet remembrance of the life and times of Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick was in for a surprise if they… Read more »

By JENNIFER PELTZ (NEW YORK, AP) — Sept. 11 victims’ loved ones marked the 12th anniversary of the attacks Wednesday at ground zero with the reading of names, moments of… Read more »

(MILTON, W.Va., AP) — Who says superheroes aren’t real? When a West Virginia home caught fire, trapping a kitten inside, it was Batman and Captain America who came to the… Read more »