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FILE - This Dec. 14, 2012 aerial file photo shows Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman shot 27 people dead, including 20 children. The Sandy Hook School Building Task Force meets Friday night, May 3, 2013, to debate whether to renovate or rebuild on the existing school site, or to construct a new school building on nearby property.  (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Newtown board mulls plans for Sandy Hook school

Newtown officials struggled Friday night to move toward a decision on what to do with the elementary school where 20 first-graders and six educators were shot to death in December, after teachers expressed grief and frustration during a closed-door session before a public meeting was held. A task force of ...

Randy Jackson and Rebbie Jackson, background right, brother and sister of late pop star Michael Jackson, arrive at a courthouse for Katherine Jackson's lawsuit against concert giant AEG Live in Los Angeles, Monday, April 29, 2013. An attorney for Michael Jackson's mother says AEG Live owed it to the pop superstar to properly investigate the doctor held criminally responsible for his death. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Jackson's life recounted in opening of civil trial

Michael Jackson's struggle against drug addiction was on display Monday during opening statements in his mother's wrongful death case against concert promoter AEG Live. Competing portraits of Jackson emerged during the first hours of the trial, with Katherine Jackson's attorney acknowledging the pop star's drug problems while also trying to ...

Fourth Annual Surfers for Autism of the Palm Beaches Beach Festival in Jupiter, Fla., Friday, April 19, 2013. (Gary Coronado/The Palm Beach Post)

UCLA to test drugs for autism in weeks not years

In an effort to find a treatment for autism, scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, are leading a $9 million experiment that aims to evaluate the effectiveness of drugs within weeks rather than years. It's part of a push by the National Institutes of Health to fast-track the ...

FILE - This Dec. 12, 2012 file photo shows actor Jason Segel at the premiere of "This Is 40"  in Los Angeles. Segel has a deal with Random House Children's Books for a middle-grade series set in a haunted town. The series is called “Nightmares!” and will debut in the Fall of 2014.  (Photo by Todd Williamson/Invision/AP, file)

Jason Segel working on middle-grade book series

Jason Segel is becoming an author. The star of the TV series "How I Met Your Mother" and "Freaks and Geeks" has a deal with Random House Children's Books for a middle-grade series set in a haunted town. The series is called "Nightmares!" and will debut in the fall of ...

Award-winning children's author Konigsburg dies

E.L. Konigsburg, an author who twice won one of the top honors for children's literature, has died. She was 83. Her son Paul Konigsburg says the longtime Florida resident died Friday at a hospital in Falls Church, Va., where she'd been living for the past few years with another son. ...

Award-winning children's author Konigsburg dies

E.L. Konigsburg, an award-winning author and illustrator of children's books, has died. She was 83. Her son Paul Konigsburg says the author died Friday at a hospital in Falls Church, Va. She had suffered a stroke a week before she died. She won the John Newbery Medal in 1997 for ...

This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows a stationary front across the Mid Atlantic with scattered showers.  Low pressure is affecting a large part of the Mississippi Valley, Great Lakes, and the Plains.  A line of strong to severe thunderstorms extends from southern Michigan all the way southwest to southwestern Texas.  Snow is occurring across the eastern Dakotas, Minnesota, and Nebraska.  Light to moderate rain is found over Wisconsin, northern Illinois, eastern Kansas, and northern Missouri.(AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)

From Rockies to Rust Belt, storm brings extremes

A powerful spring storm system stretching from southern Texas to northern Michigan unleashed a wave of weather extremes on the Midwest on Thursday and threatened to bring its mix of hard rains, high winds and severe thunderstorms to the East by the weekend. The massive system was wreaking havoc from ...

In this Wednesday, April 17, 2013 photo, Chinese hold pictures of Lu Lingzi, a Boston University graduate student from China who was killed Monday in the Boston Marathon explosions, as they hold candles to mourn for her in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning province. Lu was a graduate student studying mathematics and statistics and scheduled to receive her graduate degree in 2015. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Boston bomb victim attended elite school in China

The Chinese student killed in the Boston Marathon blasts grew up in an intellectual family in a northeastern Chinese city with gritty, industrial roots, and graduated from a highly competitive high school that routinely sends students abroad. In Boston, where 23-year-old Lu Lingzi enrolled in graduate-level study in statistics, friends ...

Jennifer Hudson performs at the Grammy's on the Hill Awards at The Hamilton on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 in Washington. (Photo by Nick Wass/Invision/AP)

Library of Congress wins special Grammy Award

The music industry honored the Library of Congress with a special Grammy Award on Wednesday night for its work over the past decade to preserve historic audio recordings, along with honors for Jennifer Hudson. The Recording Academy presented its Grammys on the Hill Award to the library at an event ...

In this Tuesday, April 2, 2013 photo shows the red "S" on a fence outside the home of Jerry Siegel in Cleveland. Superman collaborators Siegel and Joe Shuster lived several blocks apart in the Glenville neighborhood which shaped their lives, dreams for the future and their imagery of the Man of Steel. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Superman's 75th puts spotlight on Cleveland roots

Superman's 75th anniversary is giving his creators' blue-collar hometown a renewed chance to claim the superhero as its own. Fans hope Thursday's anniversary, including lighting city hall with Superman's colors, will raise the profile of co-creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The city is making a start with a Superman ...

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