(FAIRFIELD, Calif., AP) — A pilot who had thrilled audiences for decades with acrobatic stunts was killed when his vintage biplane crashed upside-down on a runway at a Northern California… Read more »

(ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., AP) — A dead Minke whale that washed ashore in New Jersey suffered some further indignity: someone tagged it with graffiti. The whale, which was roughly 12… Read more »

FRANK ELTMAN and JIM FITZGERALD (NEW YORK, AP) — A subway train carrying some 1,000 passengers shook and tilted before derailing in a Queens tunnel on Friday, injuring more than a… Read more »

By ANDREW DeMILLO and JIM SALTER (VILONIA, Ark., AP) — The sky turned black as the funnel cloud closed in, and Maggie Caro rushed with her husband and two children to… Read more »

(COLUMBUS, Ohio, AP) — Ohio is increasing the dosage of the lethal injection drugs used to put condemned inmates to death. The state said Monday it is boosting the amount… Read more »

By ANDREW DeMILLO and CHRISTINA HUYNH (VILONIA, Ark., AP) — Three years after a tornado devastated the Little Rock suburb of Vilonia, its residents found themselves huddling in the dark early… Read more »

(OPAL, Wyo., AP) — Residents and emergency crews were waiting for a fire to burn itself out after an explosion at a natural gas processing plant in a small town… Read more »

(LOS ANGELES, AP) — The mother of a 17-year-old honors student who was among 10 people killed in a fiery Northern California bus crash sued FedEx on Tuesday, alleging that… Read more »

By BROCK VERGAKIS (NORFOLK, Va., AP) — Air Force investigators say a plane crash that killed four people in Colombia this past fall occurred when the plane’s pilots failed to… Read more »

By MARK SHERMAN (WASHINGTON, AP) — In his new book, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens calls for no fewer than six changes to the Constitution, two of which… Read more »