WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon wants more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.
New details on the administration's budget request for next year and other expenses emerged on Tuesday. The cost of the facility that houses 166 prisoners indefinitely includes $200 million for military construction work that could stretch over a decade.
The request also includes $40 million...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior House Republican says U.S. military forces weren't in a position to help those under attack at a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya because the State Department had failed to ask the Pentagon for help in securing the compound before the raid.
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, congressman Howard "Buck" McKeon, also says billions of dollars in cuts to the Defense Department's budget raise the potential for greater risk at U.S. posts...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas' state treasurer has resigned after federal prosecutors accused her of taking cash payments from a broker who handled a large amount of the state's investment portfolio.
Democrat Martha Shoffner resigned effective Tuesday from the office she has held since 2007 and was re-elected to in 2010. She was barred by term limits from seeking re-election next year.
Democrats and Republicans called for Shoffner to step down...
MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Lives were forever changed in a few short minutes as a large tornado battered the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing at least 24 people and injuring dozens. The storm tore apart one elementary school and severely damaged another; it ripped homes off their foundations, scattered prized possessions, laid waste to businesses.
While officials are nearly certain the search for survivors and the dead is complete, the effects of Monday's tornado will...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government has given the job of compiling statistics used by the State Department to analyze trends in global terrorism to an academic group, a move that may complicate accurate unclassified assessments of patterns of terrorist activity for years to come.
As President Barack Obama prepares to deliver a major speech on counterterrorism this week and the State Department readies its annual terrorism report for release at the end of the month,...
DALLAS (AP) — The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for Central and North Texas.
The advisory Tuesday could be expanded to include East Texas as a storm system moves east across the state. Severe thunderstorms are anticipated in some areas.
The weather service has issued the tornado watch until 7 p.m. local time.
A layer of warm air over North Texas had limited storm development over the past two days. But that'...
HOUSTON (AP) — A man accused of vandalizing a 1929 Pablo Picasso painting in an act that was caught on cellphone video has pleaded guilty in exchange for a two-year prison sentence.
Uriel Landeros had faced felony graffiti and criminal mischief charges accusing him of spray-painting "Woman in a Red Armchair" at the Menil Collection in Houston.
Emily Detoto, Landeros' attorney, says that at a court hearing Tuesday, her client pleaded guilty to the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army says the commanding general of Fort Jackson, S.C., has been suspended in connection with charges of adultery and involvement in a physical altercation.
The Army says Brig. Gen. Bryan Roberts reportedly was in an altercation with another woman, not his wife. Roberts was suspended from his job by Gen. Robert W. Cone, commander of Army Training and Doctrine Command, while the investigation continues.
Roberts took command of...
NEW YORK (AP) — Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for May 13-19. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "NCIS," CBS, 18.79 million.
2. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 15.48 million.
3. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 14.31 million.
4. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 13.52 million.
5. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 13.33 million.
6. "American...
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — In a story May 20 about the Susan Powell investigation, The Associated Press reported erroneously the day that Josh Powell committed suicide. It happened on Feb. 5, 2012.
A corrected version of the story is below:
Police close Susan Powell case, offer new details
Police close active investigation of Susan Powell's disappearance, offer new details in case...
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