AP - The decomposed bodies found last weekend in an oceanside home were identified Tuesday as an engineer who testified at trials about accident reconstruction and four of his relatives.

AP - Another week, another rumbling train of tornadoes that obliterates entire city blocks, smashing homes to their foundations and killing people even as they cower in their basements.

AP - A day after an orbiter's radio shutdown blocked NASA from telling its newly planted Phoenix Mars lander what to do, orders were on the way to get its robotic arm moving.

AP - Unsuspecting property owners around the country are getting trampled in an old-fashioned land rush by natural gas companies and speculators trying to lock up long-ignored drilling rights quickly and cheaply.

AP - Multiple sclerosis has Paul House in a wheelchair. A tenacious prosecutor has him on death row, deemed too dangerous to be released two years after the U.S. Supreme Court said he likely isn't guilty.

AP - The name of the place says it all: The Original Kazoo Co. And, boy, do its owners mean original.

AP - Both the scene and the toll of a fiery six-vehicle crash were staggering.

AP - Same-sex couples in some California counties will be able to marry as soon as June 14, the president of the California's county clerks association said.

AP - A string of shootings in a New York City neighborhood sent eight people, including half a dozen teenagers, to nearby hospitals with gunshot wounds, police said Tuesday.

AP - Fred Everts held back tears as he surveyed the pile of splintered wood and metal scraps that had been his and his wife's home.

AP - Several leading child welfare groups Tuesday urged an overhaul of federal laws dealing with transracial adoption, arguing that black children in foster care are ill-served by a "colorblind" approach meant to encourage their adoption by white families.