Police arrested a man earlier Monday in connection with the case after picking up six people who had been in the area where a car owned by one of the victims was found.

Two FBI workers are accused of using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns at a charity event at a West Virginia mall.

Attorneys for one of the nation's largest sugar producers accused a whistleblower Monday of faking a report that he says he sent to company executives warning them of the dust hazard at a Georgia refinery days before a blast there killed 14 workers.

The award for local reporting is the ninth Pulitzer for the Free Press, and the two reporters were elated to have been a part of it.

Dozens of people participated in a "lie-down" at Colorado's state Capitol Monday to demand stricter gun control and mark the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings.

State veterinarians were still performing necropsies but suspect the horses died from heart failure brought on by some sort of toxic reaction in their bodies.

Investigators began the task Monday evening of identifying four bodies found inside a hotel guest room earlier in the day in suburban Baltimore, as well as figuring out how the people died.

Valley City Mayor Mary Lee Nielson told businesses to stay closed for at least this week, unless they are absolutely needed.

Richard Phillips, who was freed from his ordeal with Somali pirates on Easter Sunday, was expected to arrive on a chartered jet before being whisked to his home, where the white picket fence in front was festooned with homemade signs, ribbons and bows.

Facing conflicting evidence, analysts are wrestling with whether the economy is making a fitful climb back up — or whether the crisis will get worse before it gets better.