Mass. US Senate race focuses 9/11 resolutions, ads

BOSTON (AP) -- In their contest for Massachusetts' open U.S. Senate seat, Republican Gabriel Gomez and Democrat Edward Markey continued to clash Tuesday over votes Markey cast against two resolutions honoring the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. (   05/21/2013 7:59 PM )

• Scramble is on to succeed Boston Mayor Menino

• GOP Senate hopeful Gomez targets Markey in TV ad

• Miami loses votes for 2 Super Bowl bids

• No new funds needed for Okla. tornado recovery

Lawyer: Feds investigating Susan Powell case

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) -- The U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah says it's not true that there's an ongoing federal investigation into the 2009 disappearance of Susan Powell. (   05/21/2013 7:07 PM )

• Oklahoma schools hit by tornado had no safe rooms

• Mass. court rejects new trial in subway shooting

• Miles and minutes: Okla. tornado by the numbers

• The 50th Super Bowl goes to San Francisco Bay Area

Egypt troops in Sinai sweep mistakenly hit funeral

CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian troops and police mistakenly fired on a Bedouin funeral in the Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, security officials said, in the opening salvo of a sweep searching for security personnel kidnapped by suspected militants. (   05/21/2013 6:09 PM )

• Does France have right plan to revive its economy?

• Gandhi's 'blood sample' fails to sell in Britain

• Car bomb, other attacks kill 20 in Iraq

• Warsaw ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93

Police defend officer who shot NY college student

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- The president of a New York police union defended an officer who accidentally killed a Hofstra University student during a standoff with an armed intruder, saying Tuesday the only person responsible for the woman's death was the gunman who held her hostage. (   05/21/2013 8:00 PM )

• Teachers credited with saving students in Okla.

• Maine gov. signs suicide prevention education bill

• UVM hires new provost from NY school

• Oklahoma schools hit by tornado had no safe rooms

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 7:19 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