By WILL WEISSERT (AUSTIN, Texas, AP) — Gun advocates — some with rifles slung across shoulders or pistols holstered at the hip — have rallied peacefully in state capitals nationwide… Read more »

By JENNIFER PELTZ (NEW YORK, AP) — An unusually early and vigorous flu season is drawing attention to a cause that has scored victories but also hit roadblocks in recent… Read more »

By MICHELLE RINDELS (LAS VEGAS, AP) — As a teenager growing up in Las Vegas, Tanya Angus strutted along fashion runways. She was 5 feet 8 inches tall. But at… Read more »

(HAZARD, Ky., AP) — A gunman who fired into a vehicle, killing a man and a woman and wounding a 12-year-old girl, has been charged with murder and attempted murder… Read more »

(PORTLAND, Ore., AP) — Firefighters in downtown Portland, Ore., are cutting through a parking garage wall to rescue a woman who somehow got wedged between two buildings. Lt. Damon Simmons… Read more »

By DAVID KLEPPER (PROVIDENCE, R.I., AP) — Supporters of same-sex marriage rights plan to assemble at the Rhode Island Statehouse to urge lawmakers to make the smallest state the 10th… Read more »

By MICHAEL GORMLEY (ALBANY, N.Y., AP) — New York lawmakers agreed to pass the toughest gun control law in the nation and the first since the Newtown, Conn., school shooting,… Read more »

By LINDA DEUTSCH (LOS ANGELES, AP) — Six former officials of the scandal-ridden city of Bell go on trial this week in a massive corruption case that nearly bankrupted the… Read more »

(LOS ANGELES, AP) — Police in Los Angeles have arrested suspects in connection with last week’s hostage taking of 14 clothing store workers, one of whom was stabbed and another… Read more »

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A group in Newtown, Conn., plans to announce an initiative Monday aimed at preventing violent tragedies like last month’s school shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School…. Read more »