May 25, 20126:11 PM ET

VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) — Police say a gunman who held hostages at an Indiana real estate office is being taken to a hospital after shooting himself in the head.

May 25, 20125:38 PM ET

NEW YORK (AP) — Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs.

May 25, 20125:33 PM ET

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Bud weakened Friday as it headed toward a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast south of Puerto Vallarta. Two people, one of them from France, were reported missing in a separate storm in Cuba.

May 25, 20124:33 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's investment in green energy requires too much green paper for some in Congress.

May 25, 20125:42 PM ET

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The commander in charge of the raid to kill Osama bin Laden is defending his proposal that would give him more authority to send special operations forces overseas to address problems like terrorists or sudden Arab Spring-style unrest.

May 25, 20123:58 PM ET

CENTRALIA, Pa. (AP) — Fifty years ago on Sunday, a fire at the town dump ignited an exposed coal seam, setting off a chain of events that eventually led to the demolition of nearly every building in Centralia — a whole community of 1,400 simply gone.

May 25, 20125:38 PM ET

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The judge in the John Edwards trial abruptly closed the courtroom Friday to talk to attorneys about an issue with a juror and sent the panel home after six days of deliberations with a stern warning not to talk about the case.

May 25, 20125:18 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — Visibly pained, Vice President Joe Biden recalls the wrenching sorrow of losing his first wife and his daughter to a car accident in 1972.