Stocks gain on earnings; fake tweet shakes stocks
By The Associated Press / April 23, 2013Companies that do well when the economy is improving led the market higher Tuesday after several of them notched strong earnings.
Companies that do well when the economy is improving led the market higher Tuesday after several of them notched strong earnings.
Charges were dropped Tuesday against the Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others, while authorities searched at another man’s home in connection with the case.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Zombies have invaded the University of Michigan campus.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — An Indiana University sorority is apologizing for throwing a party that made fun of the homeless amid criticism from advocates who say the theme was insensitive.
PHILADELPHIA — Three of eight murder charges were thrown out Tuesday against a Philadelphia abortion provider whose clinic was called a "house of horrors," apparently because the judge had not heard sufficient evidence from prosecutors that the three babies were viable, born alive and then killed.
French lawmakers have legalized same-sex marriage after months of bruising debate and street protests that brought hundreds of thousands to Paris.
A pharmacy that makes specialty medications is recalling nearly 100 compounded drugs after federal regulators found potential safety problems during an inspection.
Student response rates for course evaluations raised 21 percent after the university introduced incentives last semester.
A seriously wounded Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged in his hospital room Monday with bombing the Boston Marathon in a plot with his older brother and could get the death penalty.
It was 7:29 p.m. April 17, and the last routine moment in West, Texas, since.
BOSTON — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged by federal prosecutors in his hospital room Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill — a crime that carries a possible death sentence.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Recent threats of harming students at schools in two northern Indiana counties illustrates the strain even pranks can create for police and school officials, authorities said.
BOSTON — In a rebuttal to the terrorists and a tribute to stellar medical care, all of the more than 180 people injured in the Boston Marathon blasts one week ago who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive.
INDIANAPOLIS — The number of children who died because of abuse or neglect in Indiana surged in the first year of a statewide hotline, and the Department of Child Services said it didn't get involved with about 90 percent of those cases until after the children concerned had died.
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — Police say a man killed his live-in girlfriend at an apartment complex south of Seattle then fatally shot three men, including one who had phoned 911 to report hearing gunfire.
