By BILL DRAPER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH (OTTAWA, Kan., AP) – A 27-year-old convicted felon was charged Friday in the deaths of a woman and two men whose bodies were found… Read more »

By CARLA K. JOHNSON (CHICAGO, AP) – When Michael Gore stands, it’s a triumph of science and engineering. Eleven years ago, Gore was paralyzed from the waist down in a… Read more »

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) – A tiger and two mountain lions were among a menagerie of wild cats seized from private farmland in rural northeast Kansas, where… Read more »

By JOSH LEDERMAN (COLUMBUS, Ohio, AP) – The White House says it is “horrified” by reports that more than 100 people were executed Thursday in a western Syrian town. White… Read more »

By BOB SEAVEY and HAVEN DALEY (PHOENIX, AP) – Flying for several hours after sundown, a solar-powered airplane landed in Phoenix early Saturday morning on the first leg of a… Read more »

(MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., AP) – A solar-powered airplane left Northern California and is on the first leg of a planned journey to several U.S. cities. The Solar Impulse left Moffett… Read more »

By BRIAN WITTE (ANNAPOLIS, Md., AP) – Opponents of capital punishment marked a milestone Thursday as Maryland became the first state south of the Mason-Dixon line to abolish the death… Read more »

(WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., AP) – Scientists have taken the idea of a film short down to new levels. Molecular levels. IBM says it has made the tiniest stop-motion movie ever… Read more »

By LINDSEY TANNER (CHICAGO, AP) – A 2-year-old girl born without a windpipe now has a new one grown from her own stem cells, the youngest patient in the world… Read more »

By DAN SEWELL (CINCINNATI, AP) – A student at an all-male parochial high school pulled out a gun in a classroom Monday morning and shot himself in an apparent suicide… Read more »