Judge finds Ariz. sheriff's office racially profiles Latinos in immigration patrols
PHOENIX (AP) -- A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people....

Key figures in lawsuit alleging racial profiling against Arizona sheriff
PHOENIX (AP) -- Key figures in a lawsuit that alleges that an Arizona sheriff's office has racially profiled Latinos in its immigration patrols. A judge ruled Friday that Arpaio's office systematically racially profiles Latinos:...

Pa. dad charged after baby's faith-healing death says medicine 'against our religious beliefs'
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care....

2 dead after Angel Flight crashes in upstate NY; search for pilot, investigation under way
EPHRATAH, N.Y. (AP) -- The crash of a volunteer Angel Flight in upstate New York that killed at least two people is under investigation, and the search for the missing pilot is ongoing, authorities said....

Arias trial jury foreman says death decision unfair for 12 average people who aren't lawyers
PHOENIX (AP) -- They were 12 ordinary citizens who didn't oppose the death penalty. But unlike spectators outside the courthouse who followed the case like a daytime soap opera and jumped to demand Jodi Arias' execution, the jurors faced a decision that was wrenching and real, with implications that could haunt them forever....

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at age 81
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When Haynes Johnson visited Selma, Ala., months after a civil rights crisis there gripped the nation, he wrote in The Washington Evening Star that he'd found "no discernible change in the racial climate of the city." When it came to employment, housing or education, blacks had made no real gains....

Furlough Friday: Budget cuts mean an unpaid day off for many at IRS, HUD and other agencies
WASHINGTON (AP) -- No one answered the tax-help hotline at the IRS on Friday. And you could forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at the 80 Housing and Urban Development field offices nationwide....

Principal recounts storm hitting Oklahoma school where 7 kids died, told students `It's here'
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Teachers and students at Plaza Towers Elementary School hunkered down against the storm just as they had been taught in countless tornado drills, their principal said Friday, recounting how she walked the halls until the twister was on the doorstep, then announced on the intercom, "It's here."...

No quick fix for downed bridge on holiday weekend, motorists face long delays
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) -- Washington state officials are scrambling to find a temporary fix for a bridge that collapsed on an important interstate highway and, incredibly, left just three motorists with injuries. Whatever the solution, it won't come in time to help with Memorial Day's highway hoards....

Calif. bill sought to require product makers to reduce plastic trash polluting the ocean
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A California bill that would have required manufacturers to figure out how to keep the most common plastic junk out of state waterways died in the state Assembly without a vote Friday....