Tea Party activists plan IRS protest in Boston

BOSTON (AP) -- Tea Party activists are planning to hold a demonstration in downtown Boston to protest the Internal Revenue Service for improperly targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. (   05/21/2013 4:10 AM )

• UMass students urge senators to boost funding

• Mass. to switch to electronic Tobin Bridge tolls

• Dunn homers as White Sox beat Lester, Red Sox 6-4

• Slow pokes: Acupuncture helps hypothermic turtles

Police close Susan Powell case, offer new details

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) -- Josh Powell reportedly had an affair just months before his wife disappeared and his brother may have been "heavily involved" in getting rid of her body, Utah police revealed as they announced they couldn't solve the sensational case. (   05/21/2013 3:13 AM )

• Arias speaks on own behalf as jury considers death

• After a decade, global AIDS program looks ahead

• RI State Police step up seatbelt law enforcement

• Mass. to switch to electronic Tobin Bridge tolls

Israel returns fire following shooting from Syria

JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli military says gunfire from Syria hit an Israeli patrol on the Golan Heights overnight, damaging a vehicle and prompting the troops to fire back. (   05/21/2013 3:10 AM )

• China's Li seeks stronger economic ties with India

• Israel returns fire following shooting from Syria

• Syria, Israel exchange fire over border

• Myanmar Muslims jailed for killing Buddhist monk

AP photographer describes destroyed Okla. school

MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- I left the office as soon as I saw the tornado warnings on TV. I had photographed about a dozen twisters before in the past decade, and knew that if I didn't get in my car before the funnel cloud hit, it would be too late. Oklahoma City-based AP photographer Sue Ogrocki was at the elementary school destroyed by a tornado and saw rescuers pulling children out of the rubble. This is her account of what she witnessed. (   05/21/2013 4:59 AM )

• Couple in Vt. killing ask for new lawyers

• R.I. Senate to take up school security secrecy bill

• UMass students urge senators to boost funding

• Newtown mom visits Utah hometown for ceremony

Most shipwrecks called a minor US pollution threat

WASHINGTON -- A new government report details 87 shipwrecks -- most sunk during World War II decades ago -- that could pollute US waters with tens of millions of gallons of oil. Even so, the potential for pollution is less than scientists had expected. The report released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concludes ''the scope of the problem is much more manageable than initially feared. . . . Our coastlines are not littered with 'ticking time bombs.''' Agency officials estimate that far less oil will leak into the ocean than the BP oil spill of 2010, which spewed roughly 200 million gallons into the Gulf of Mexico alone. There are 20,000 shipwrecked vessels that lie off the nation's coastlines. Most of those either finished leaking long ago, ran on coal instead of oil, are too small or aren't near vulnerable land.(   05/21/2013 12:00 AM )

• Oklahoma twister tracked path of 1999 tornado

• Study: Most shipwrecks a minor US pollution threat

• Curiosity rover drills into second Martian rock

• NASA: New pump resolves big space station leak