The Wire

  • Bills DE Williams says texts taken out of context

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:58pm

    (AP) — Mario Williams refused to be labeled as someone who was emotionally unstable in dismissing questions about his mental state raised by a series of text messages from his former fiancee.

  • Massive tornado roars through Oklahoma City suburb

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:55pm

    (AP) — A monstrous tornado as much as a mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school.

  • Panel: Apple uses firms outside US to avoid taxes

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:55pm

    (AP) — Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found.

  • IG: ex-US Attorney retaliated in Fast and Furious

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:54pm

    (AP) — The U.S. Attorney in Arizona violated Justice Department policy by providing Fox News with information apparently aimed at undercutting the credibility of a federal agent who helped reveal the botched arms-trafficking probe called Operation Fast and Furious, the Justice Department's inspector general said Monday.

  • Small company stock are a bright spot

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:52pm

    (AP) — Small-company stocks were a bright spot in a subdued start to the week for Wall Street.

  • Senators require fingerprinting at 30 airports

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:51pm

    (AP) — Senate supporters of far-reaching immigration legislation accepted minor changes in public while negotiating over more sweeping alterations in private Monday as they drove toward expected Judiciary Committee approval by mid-week.

  • More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:51pm

    (AP) — White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Barack Obama's spokesman disclosed Monday, expanding the circle of top officials who knew of the audit beyond those named earlier.

  • Sports seem OK for many with heart-zapping device

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:47pm

    (AP) — New research is challenging medical guidelines that say people with a heart-zapping device in their chests should avoid intense sports like basketball and soccer in favor of golf or bowling.

  • GOP leaders say impeachment talk premature

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:46pm

    (AP) — The Republican National Committee chairman and a leading conservative, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, are distancing themselves from those conservatives who suggested in recent days that President Barack Obama could face impeachment for the developing scandal at the Internal Revenue Service.

  • FBI agents killed in Va. training were among elite

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:45pm

    (AP) — The two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast were part of the agency's elite hostage rescue team, a group known most recently for rescuing an Alabama boy from an underground bunker.

  • Search for survivors begins in OKC suburb

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:44pm

    (AP) — A mix of volunteers and first responders are combing through debris in an Oklahoma City suburb looking for survivors.

  • White House says more farm subsidy cuts needed

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:42pm

    (AP) — The White House says it would like to see more cuts to agriculture subsidies in a massive farm bill moving through the Senate this week.

  • Arias attorneys will put one witness on: Arias

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:39pm

    (AP) — Complaining that Jodi Arias' sensational murder case has become a modern-day "witch trial," her lawyers tried to quit in the middle of the death-penalty phase Monday, then said they will call only one witness: Arias.

  • Indians rally to beat Mariners 10-8

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:39pm

    (AP) — Chris Perez was stunned, surprised and shocked.

  • Myanmar leader vows justice over communal violence

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:36pm

    (AP) — Myanmar President Thein Sein says that all perpetrators of inter-communal violence in the country will be brought to justice.

  • Sally Ride to get posthumous Medal of Freedom

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:35pm

    (AP) — President Barack Obama will bestow the Medal of Freedom posthumously on Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space.

  • Questions linger in shooting of NY college student

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:25pm

    Updated on May 20, 2013 at 5:26pm

    (AP) — As a family prepared for the funeral of a Hofstra University junior killed by a police officer's bullet during a standoff with an armed intruder, some on Monday questioned whether officers should have confronted the gunman or waited for help, including a hostage negotiating team.

  • Attacks kill 95 in Iraq, hint of Syrian spillover

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:25pm

    (AP) — Iraq's wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 people and brought echoes of past sectarian carnage and fears of a dangerous spillover from Syria's civil war next door.

  • Ex-NFL WR Johnson arrested on probation violation

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:23pm

    (AP) — Former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson has been arrested on charges that he violated probation stemming from an altercation with his now ex-wife, TV reality star Evelyn Lozada.

  • Bosh aiming to be impactful against Pacers

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:23pm

    (AP) — Chris Bosh would have happily played against anybody for a chance to return to the NBA Finals.