NEW YORK (AP) — The timing couldn't have been more symbolic: On the eve of National Missing Children's Day, police said they'd at last cracked the case that started it — the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Muslim leaders in New Jersey say they are angry but uncertain what their next step will be after the state's attorney general found that New York City police did not violate any laws in its surveillance of Muslim businesses, mosques and student groups in New Jersey.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is sidestepping an election-year confrontation with the hotel industry and other pool owners to give them more time to comply with access rules for the disabled.
ELKHART, Texas (AP) — Linda Galayda hauled water and flagged down truck drivers to ask about their hay. She sold calves and young cows and made her son leave their East Texas family ranch for a job in San Antonio.
WACO, Texas (AP) — Walking around a gun store one day last summer, the young man never took off his sunglasses as he asked questions about items he piled on the counter — behavior that struck the manager as odd.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nobody pays in LA. Or so say some scofflaws on the city's fast-growing subway system. But soon they'll be digging for their dollar-fifty like everyone else.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A privately bankrolled spacecraft is getting ever closer to the International Space Station for a historic docking Friday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Beer was hip in New York long before hipsters were into craft brews, according to a new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society that traces the history of beer all the way back to drunken Colonial times.
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — First he cried. Then Brian Banks — exonerated of a rape conviction that cost him five years in prison — walked outside the courthouse and seized the moment of freedom he had dreamed of for so long.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 fashioned a new life in Las Vegas as a modest grocery store owner before being arrested and deported to his native country, a lawyer and U.S. officials said Thursday.
Today is Friday, May 25, the 146th day of 2012. There are 220 days left in the year.