Posted: 10:38 AM The union says the contracts cover nearly 250,000 workers at UPS and UPS Freight.

Updated: 9:12 PM Prominent death penalty lawyer Judy Clarke is joining the team representing the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

Posted: 3:42 PM The plan fell apart after the Tsarnaev brothers were intercepted by police in a stolen car and got into a fierce gun battle

Posted: 10:04 PM You can learn a lot from a zombie. At least that's what a University of Michigan professor hopes her 31 graduate students took away from Tuesday's bizarre, albeit bloody, "zombie apocalypse."

Posted: 9:59 PM A Samurai sword-wielding Mormon bishop came to the aid of a woman who was being attacked in front of his house.

Posted: 5:12 PM The stock market climbed Tuesday following strong earnings across a range of U.S. industries.

Updated: 6:06 PM A court filing says charges have been dropped against a Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others.

Updated: 10:49 PM Two U.S. officials briefed on the Boston marathon investigation say the Russian government contacted the FBI and the CIA separately in 2011 with concerns about Tamerlan Tsarnaev (tsahr-NEYE'-ehv), one of the men authorities say was behind the attacks.

Updated: 9:50 PM The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by a radical brand of Islam but do not seem connected to any Muslim terrorist groups, U.S. officials said Monday after interrogating and charging Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with crimes that could bring the death penalty.

Updated: 11:38 AM The first Earth day on April 22, 1970 is credited with starting the modern environmental movement.

Updated: 3:07 PM Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has asked residents to observe a moment of silence at 2:50 p.m. Monday

Updated: 1:50 PM AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- Georgia's new automotive tax law is creating confusion in car deals.

Posted: 10:22 AM ATLANTA (AP) -- A few weeks into automatic spending cuts on the federal level, the trickle-down effect is beginning to surface in Georgia.

Updated: 10:18 AM JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating after several homeless women have been the victims of sexual assault in Jacksonville.

Posted: 1:42 PM The plants, including 1,150 in Texas, are part of a regulatory system.

Updated: 1:49 PM The FBI says it interviewed Tsarnaev and relatives, and did not find any domestic or foreign terrorism activity.

Updated: 10:25 AM U.S. officials say a special interrogation team for high-value suspects will question Tsarnaev without reading him his Miranda rights

Posted: 11:05 PM USA Today founder Al Neuharth has died in Cocoa Beach, Fla. He was 89.

Updated: 8:43 PM Celebrations erupted in Boston and beyond as the capture of the remaining marathon bombing suspect was announced in a tweet from police.

Updated: 8:46 PM President Barack Obama says the capture of a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing closes what he calls "an important chapter in this tragedy."

Updated: 9:16 AM Exclusive Video: Aftermath of the Texas Plant Explosion

Updated: 10:25 AM A law enforcement official says two more bodies have been recovered in the wake of the Texas fertilizer plant explosion, bring the death toll from the blast to 14.

Updated: 3:22 PM The FBI says laboratory tests have confirmed the presence of ricin in letters mailed to a U.S. senator and to President Barack Obama.

Posted: 3:12 PM Boys Scouts of America is proposing to lift the ban for youth members but continue to exclude gays as adult leaders.

Updated: 5:57 PM Most family members of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects are standing by them, and expressing doubts that the two brothers were actually responsible for the bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 180 others.