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Raw: School Bus Crash Injures Five Children

Raw: School Bus Crash Injures Five Children

A school bus carrying severely disabled students home from a trip to the zoo rolled over Thursday on a highway near Indianapolis, injuring a dozen people, including five children. None of the injuries are considered life-threatening. (May 1...

AP Top Stories May 16 P

AP Top Stories May 16 P

Here's the latest news for Thursday, May 16: Budget officer in line to head IRS; Texas tornado winds believed to be up to 200 mph; Semi hits school bus carrying special-needs kids; Beckham to retire, ending riveting soccer journey.

Quick Response Saved Baby on Phila. Train Tracks

Quick Response Saved Baby on Phila. Train Tracks

Transit officials in Philadelphia say an old-fashioned but vital piece of safety equipment helped avert disaster when a stroller carrying a baby fell onto train tracks. (May 16)

One Million Evacuated As Cyclone Hits Bangladesh

One Million Evacuated As Cyclone Hits Bangladesh

Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh Thursday, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and strong winds that flattened mud and straw huts and forced the evacuation of more than one million people. (May 16)

One Million Evacuated As Cyclone Hits Bangladesh

One Million Evacuated As Cyclone Hits Bangladesh

Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh Thursday, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and strong winds that flattened mud and straw huts and forced the evacuation of more than one million people. (May 16)

MLB Hoping for Large Replay Expansion in 2014

MLB Hoping for Large Replay Expansion in 2014

Major League Baseball appears set for a vast expansion of video review by umpires in 2014 and is examining whether all calls other than balls or strikes should be subject to instant replay. (May 16)

Raw: Marines Come to Obama's Aid in the Rain

Raw: Marines Come to Obama's Aid in the Rain

It started to rain during a joint news conference with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Rose Garden at the White House, so President Barack Obama called for relief from the Marines (May 16)

Obama Says He's 'outraged' by IRS Case

Obama Says He's 'outraged' by IRS Case

President Barack Obama dismissed the idea of a special prosecutor to investigate the Internal Revenue Service Thursday, saying probes by Congress and the Justice Department should be sufficient. (May 16)

Beckham to Retire From Soccer at End of Season

Beckham to Retire From Soccer at End of Season

David Beckham is retiring from soccer, ending a career in which he transcended the sport with forays into fashion and a marriage to a pop star that made him a global celebrity. (May 16)

FILE - This undated file image released by the British Health Protection Agency shows an electron microscope image of a coronavirus, part of a family of viruses that cause ailments including the common cold and SARS, which was first identified last year in the Middle East. The Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia told world health officials that two health care workers became ill this month after being exposed to patients with the a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS. One is critically ill. (AP Photo/Health Protection Agency, File)

Correction: New Virus story

In a story May 15 about a new SARS-like virus spreading from patients to health care workers in Saudi Arabia, The Associated Press reported erroneously the location of the 20 deaths attributed to the virus. There have been no deaths reported in France and Qatar, only in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, ...

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