From baseball diamond to church pews, services across US measure rising losses in Afghanistan

War comes home: Day-by-day, services honor fallen

Teen recalls images from deadly crash as cross-country athletes return to Calif. campus

Teen recalls images from deadly California crash

Principal says 2 Catholic high school grads among 3 dead in crash in eastern Sierra

Principal: 2 HS grads among 3 dead in Calif. crash

Principal says 2 high school grads among 3 dead in Calif. crash in eastern Sierra Nevada

Principal: 2 high school grads among dead in crash

NTSB investigation of school bus crash that killed 2 to look at construction zone, bus issues

NTSB investigates deadly school bus accident

Day of fun turns into day of tragedy for Mo. high schoolers involved in fatal highway wreck

Mo. families grieve 2 slain in school buses wreck

2 people killed, dozens of children hurt after school buses slam into wreck on Mo. highway

2 killed, dozens hurt in school bus crash in Mo.

Officials: Heavy caseload led to misidentification of 2 women after deadly Ariz. traffic crash

Case overload blamed for AZ fatal crash ID mix-up

1 family grieves as another clings to hope after Ariz. authorities misidentify women in crash

ID mixup: Family planning funeral now hopeful

Families shocked to learn Ariz. officials mixed up names of woman hurt, woman killed in crash

Arizona officials misidentify crash victims

Ind. soccer players on emotional rollercoaster after teammate mistakenly IDed as dead in Ariz.

Indiana soccer players coping with ID mixup

Families shocked to learn AZ officials mixed up names of woman injured, woman killed in crash

Arizona officials misidentify crash victims

Exxon Mobil CEO says company is helping BP figure out how to control Gulf spill

Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama

Baby survives after his stroller rolls off platform and is struck by train in Australia

Australian baby lives after stroller hit by train

AP Exclusive: Workers describe bureaucracy, technical failures before Gulf rig exploded

BP to try to choke off oil gusher in Gulf; testimony says decisions aboard rig criticized

Responders taking cautious approach to clean up trans-Alaska pipeline spill, restart oil flow

Crews working to get Alaska pipeline flowing again

BP CEO expects to decide soon whether to start ‘top kill’ bid to plug Gulf oil leak with mud

BP still deciding whether to pump mud to stop oil

Floods kill 115 in southern China, cause $2.2 billion in damages

Floods kill 115 in southern China

BEIJING — A torrent of floods caused by heavy storms have killed 115 people in southern China, with 21 people still missing as weather reports show rains beginning to subside.

Settlement reached in wrongful death lawsuit involving major leaguer Jim Leyritz, car crash

Leyritz wrongful death lawsuit in Fla. settled

Paisley, Gill, Wariner and Skaggs, oh my! Opry launches 85th birthday celebration with a bang

Paisley, Gill, Wariner and Skaggs rock the Opry

North Korea makes new threats against South as Clinton arrives for crisis talks

NKorea threatens to ban border traffic

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea threatened Wednesday to block all cross-border traffic and blow up any South Korean loudspeakers blasting propaganda northward after a six-year hiatus, as tensions soared over the sinking of a South Korean warship.

Germany forward Thomas Mueller injured in mountain bike fall, will stay on World Cup squad

Germany forward Mueller injured in bike accident

BP’s latest bid to stop Gulf oil awaits final call by CEO; warnings cited before April blast

BP says effort has started to try to stop leaking Gulf oil well by filling it with mud

Coast Guard gives BP approval to try to cap leaking Gulf oil well; no word on start time

Rig worker says senior managers complained BP took ’shortcuts’ before Gulf well blowout

AP Exclusive: Worker says managers complained BP took shortcuts before blast; feds OK top kill

AP Exclusive: Rig worker says managers complained BP took ’shortcuts’ before explosion

BP CEO says expects to decide soon whether to go ahead with effort to fill oil leak with mud

BP expects decision soon on attempt to stop oil

North Korea makes new threats against South; Clinton calls sinking ‘unacceptable provocation’

NKorea threatens to ban cross-border traffic

China says weighing evidence in sinking of South Korean warship Seoul blames on North Korea

Some oil spill events from Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Protesters rally outside the White House

6-year-old girl killed in Germany as rare tornado hits the nation

Girl killed by tornado in Germany

BERLIN — Police say a 6-year-old girl has died of injuries sustained when a tree fell on the car she was traveling in as a rare tornado ripped through eastern Germany.