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The Iowa Senate adjourned the 2013 legislative session late Wednesday night, but the House is set to return Thursday for more votes.

One person is dead after a resident on Canyon Ferry Drive reported a shooting. Authorities say a homeowner saw an intruder in his house and confronted him.

MOORE, Okla. - Nine-year-old Sydney Angle was "everywhere at once" when she was out on the softball field.

The former president's yacht, the USS Williamsburg, has had one tow line in the grave for 20 years, about as long as it has been deteriorating at a shipyard in northern Italy.

Annie Park shot a 5-under 67 and Southern California had a record-setting 12-under 276 total Wednesday to open a 12-stroke lead during the second round of the NCAA Women's Golf Championships at the University of Georgia Golf Course.

California's Delta has been rated in the top 10 of the best black bass fishing lakes in the United States by Bassmaster Magazine, putting a spotlight squarely on a truly amazing fishery that sits right at Stockton's doorstep.

Fans participate in a card stunt during the National Anthem before the Green Bay Packers game against the New Orleans Saints.

MIAMI - An 18-year-old Florida cheerleader is facing felony charges that she had sexual contact with her underage, 14-year-old girlfriend, leading gay rights advocates to say the teen is being unfairly targeted for a common high school romance because she's gay.

Members of the press photograph Xbox One following the Xbox One reveal event on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Redmond, Wash.

ESPN announcer Heather Cox interviews Los Angeles Lakers head coach Mike D'Antoni during game one of the first round of the 2013 NBA Playoffs at AT&T Center.

The tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs this week ranks among the strongest storms ever to strike the United States, packing powerful winds that topped 200 mph.

The search for survivors and the dead is nearly complete in the Oklahoma City suburb that was smashed by a mammoth tornado, the fire chief said Tuesday.

The 50th Super Bowl will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area and the NFL championship will go to Houston the following year.

They were among the elite of the elite, members of the FBI's paramilitary counterterrorism Hostage Rescue Team traveling the globe to respond to fast-developing criminal threats.

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.

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The game itself is moving to the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis this year, although Military Bowl officials are quick with a caveat: It's still the Washington region's bowl.

The Eastern League announced on Monday that Binghamton Mets outfielder Cory Vaughn had been named Player of the Week for May 13 through May 19.

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A former women's college basketball star and top WNBA draft pic made headlines this week after she revealed that her college coach told players not to come out about their sexuality because it would hurt their chances of being recruited and also make the school's program look bad, ESPN reports.