Mass. Senate to begin debating state budget plan

BOSTON (AP) -- The Massachusetts Senate is scheduled to begin debating hundreds of proposed amendments to its $34 billion state budget proposal. (   05/22/2013 4:06 AM )

• Kerry praises $2.1 billion Raytheon deal in Oman

• Column: Play ball with Goodell and NFL _ or else

• Lawyers to give judge update on Bulger case

• Conn. rail service returning to normal

Kerry praises $2.1 billion Raytheon deal in Oman

MUSCAT, Oman (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Wednesday with officials in Oman to discuss their plans to buy a $2.1 billion air defense system from American manufacturer Raytheon. (   05/22/2013 3:45 AM )

• Officials say Benghazi suspects under surveillance

• Arias speaks out about case in jailhouse interview

• 10 geography experts to compete in national finals

• Schilling lawyer to argue for tossing lawsuit

Kerry praises $2.1 billion Raytheon deal in Oman

MUSCAT, Oman (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Wednesday with officials in Oman to discuss their plans to buy a $2.1 billion air defense system from American manufacturer Raytheon. (   05/22/2013 3:45 AM )

• Weak yen a help for Japan, but headache elsewhere

• Young objector challenges Israeli army

• 7 Egyptian security men kidnapped in Sinai freed

• Japan's central bank says economy picking up

6 kids among 7 injured in south China attack

BEIJING (AP) -- A mentally ill man attacked six primary school students and a woman with a cleaver in the latest of a string of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren, authorities said Wednesday. (   05/22/2013 5:32 AM )

• Biden to address Coast Guard Academy graduates

• King meets with Maine students via teleconference

• Afghan students protest women's rights decree

• Police defend officer who shot NY college student

Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Everything had to come together just perfectly to create the killer tornado in Moore, Okla.: wind speed, moisture in the air, temperature and timing. And when they did, the awesome energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima. (   05/21/2013 8:58 PM )

• Most shipwrecks called a minor US pollution threat

• Oklahoma twister tracked path of 1999 tornado

• Study: Most shipwrecks a minor US pollution threat

• Curiosity rover drills into second Martian rock