Saturday May 18, 2013 ATLANTA (AP) -- A metro Atlanta woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease has been fitted with bionic hands. Andy Copeland told the Associated Press on Friday that his 25-year-old daughter, Aimee, is returning to Georgia from Hilliard, Ohio, where she was fitted with a pair of hands with 24 programmable   Full Story

Saturday May 18, 2013 SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Finals week was dangerous for Thomas Saenz. The Navy lieutenant needed armed guards and an armored car to get to an exam site, in Kabul, Afghanistan. A deadly bomb attack also caused him to his miss classes -- transmitted live via the Internet -- but he persevered and earned a master's degree in engineering from the University of Southern   Full Story

Saturday May 18, 2013 BOSTON -- The top regulators of New England's sagging fishing industry have asked fishermen not to take out their frustrations on the onboard catch observers who monitor what they pull up or throw back. The request came in an open letter to fishing permit holders Thursday, a little over two weeks into a fishing year that saw the fleet take painful cuts in   Full Story

Friday May 17, 2013 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant black shawl. Hidden from view, her words burst forth as she told her side of what happened to her family sometime before dawn on March 11, 2012.   Full Story

Friday May 17, 2013 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans in a blast so powerful it rattled the other side of the Afghan capital. U.S. soldiers rushed to help, some wearing only T-shirts or shorts under their body armor.   Full Story

Friday May 17, 2013 NEW YORK (AP) -- A smuggling ring that made a fortune selling more than a million cartons of untaxed cigarettes in New York may have funneled some of the illicit proceeds to terrorist groups, authorities said Thursday. The traffickers lived modestly and had alleged links to known terrorists, including Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind cleric serving a life sentence for   Full Story

Friday May 17, 2013 CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelans scrambled to stock up on toilet paper Thursday as fears of a bathroom emergency spread despite the socialist government’s promise to import 50 million rolls. After years of economic dysfunction, the country has gotten used to shortages of medicines and basic food items like milk and sugar but the scarcity of bathroom   Full Story

Friday May 17, 2013 NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Two brothers with a history of drug arrests and suspected ties to a neighborhood gang each face 20 counts of attempted second-degree murder in a shooting spree that brought a sudden bloody end to a neighborhood Mother’s Day parade. The arrests by city police and U.   Full Story

Friday May 17, 2013 SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The numbers sum up the frenzy that has taken over the Golden State since it became the newest in the nation to join the madness over Powerball, which saw its jackpot soar Thursday to $550 million. California has sold $83 million worth of Powerball tickets since it started selling them in April and overall has accounted for 11 percent of the   Full Story

Thursday May 16, 2013 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Without increased immigration, whites would lose their U.S. majority in 2046, three years beyond official projections, and the nation’s population would not reach 400 million until after 2060, a decade or more later than forecast, according to census estimates Wednesday.   Full Story

Thursday May 16, 2013 RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Law enforcement officials are saying little about the bizarre string events that led to a killing spree in northern Nevada that left five people dead. Authorities are searching for additional suspects that could be tied to the homicides they believe are connected -- four at two homes in the rural town of Fernley and a fifth about 30 miles west at   Full Story

Thursday May 16, 2013 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hurrying to check a growing controversy, President Barack Obama ousted the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service late Wednesday amid an outcry over revelations that the agency had improperly targeted tea party groups for scrutiny when they filed for tax-exempt status.   Full Story

Thursday May 16, 2013 PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Dr. Kermit Gosnell proved a serene but solitary figure in the courtroom during his long murder trial, in contrast to the chaotic life he built as an inner-city doctor, abortion provider and father of six. Jurors who convicted him this week of killing three babies born alive at his run-down West Philadelphia clinic thought he began his career   Full Story

Wednesday May 15, 2013 WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama seemed to lose control of his second-term agenda even before he was sworn in, when a school massacre led him to lift gun control to the fore. Now, as he tries to pivot from a stinging defeat on that issue and push forward on others, the president finds himself rocked by multiple controversies that are demoralizing his allies,   Full Story

Wednesday May 15, 2013 Maria Cheng AP Medical Writer Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie announced on Tuesday that she had a preventive mastectomy after learning she had a gene that significantly raised her risk of breast cancer. Here’s a crash course in the procedure Jolie had and why.   Full Story