A divided Kansas City School Board voted to close almost half of the city's schools because of falling enrollment. At the hearing, parents voiced anger and students cried.

Parts of Arkansas were under a tornado watch until early Thursday after a series of powerful tornadoes ripped through dozens of homes, critically injuring two people.

A background check conducted in 2009 on an Ohio State University employee suspected of opening fire Tuesday on his co-workers turned up no criminal record, even though he apparently served five years in prison.

When in-house defense attorney Dimitrios Biller resigned from Toyota, he walked out with something potentially more valuable than his $4 million severance package.

Iraq's election commission is expected Thursday to announce partial results of last week's vote.

Colleen LaRose, the U.S. woman indicted for allegedly conspiring to support terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, attempted suicide in 2005, police said.

Simmering tension spilled into public this week when Chief Justice John Roberts labeled the political atmosphere at the State of the Union address "very troubling."

Heavy fighting flared in the Somali capital Thursday, a day after a battle between government forces and Al-Shabaab rebels left 29 dead and scores injured.

British journalist Paul Martin was free Thursday and on his way to Israel after his arrest by Hamas in Gaza a month ago.

The Pentagon is training people to hack into its own computer networks.