US Top Stories from Associated Press (AP)
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As Detroit flirts with bankruptcy, new reports have revealed that four trustees of its public pension funds spent $22,000 of retirement system money to attend a conference in Honolulu last week. The trip to Waikiki Beach for the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems isn't sitting well with top officials now running Detroit's finances, Reuters reports.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) , San Antonio and the surrounding counties along rain-swollen rivers were bracing Sunday for the possibility of more flooding amid storm predictions. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for seven counties until 6 p.m. Sunday, saying thunderstorms could produce rainfall at a rate of 2 to 4 inches per hour.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is urging all local and federal U.S. prisons to adopt more "hijab-friendly' policies by allowing Muslim women to wear headscarves during their detention and in photos.
Torrential rains deluged numerous roads in San Antonio over the weekend, killing two women and resulting in more than 235 rescues by emergency workers. At least one teenage boy also was reported missing after he was carried away while trying to cross the Cibolo Creek in the suburb of Schertz, authorities said.
CHAFFEE, Mo. (AP) , A Missouri highway overpass that partially collapsed when rail cars smashed into one of its support pillars after a freight train collision was about 15 years old and in good condition but just couldn't withstand the impact, a sheriff said.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) , The winner of the men's race at the Boston Marathon says he is returning his winner's medal to honor the city and those killed and injured in the terrorist bombings near the finish line of one of the world's top running events.
EPHRATAH, N.Y. (AP) , The search for the pilot of a volunteer Angel Flight that crashed in upstate New York, killing at least two people, ended unsuccessfully Saturday, a town official said. Town...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) , An Oregon teenager intended to blow up his school in a plot "forged and inspired by the model of the Columbine shootings" and he will be charged with attempted aggravated murder, a prosecutor said late Saturday.
Bayern Munich defeated German rival Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the Champions League final Saturday night, ending four years of frustration for Bayern in Europe's biggest soccer tournament. Arjen Robben ran onto Franck Ribery's backheeled flick in the penalty area and put the ball past goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller in the 89th minute to send Bayern to its first Champions League victory since 2001.
MOORE, Okla. (AP) , Neighborhoods are flattened and buildings are on fire after a mile-wide tornado moved through the Oklahoma City area. Television footage on Monday afternoon showed homes and buildings that had been reduced to rubble in Moore, Okla., south of Oklahoma City. Footage also showed vehicles littering roadways south and southwest of Oklahoma City.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) , Commuters navigated a patchwork of cars, trains and buses along Connecticut's shoreline Monday, encountering lengthy delays as authorities probed the cause of a train collision that disrupted one of the nation's oldest and most heavily traveled railways.
NEW YORK (AP) , The godfather of a New York college student accidentally killed by a police bullet says the officer should have negotiated instead of firing as an armed intruder held the young woman hostage. Henrique Santos, of Eastchester, tells the Journal News (http://lohud.us/12Q1LzB) that he is angry about the shooting of Andrea Rebello on Friday.
VANDALIA, Ill. (AP) , A van veered off a southern Illinois highway and overturned several times Monday, killing five people and sending six others to hospitals, authorities said. Illinois State Police Sgt. Mark Zimmerman said five people died at the scene of the accident, which occurred shortly before 10 a.m. on Interstate 70 near Vandalia, about 70 miles east of St. Louis.
BOSTON (AP) , Cardinal Sean O'Malley, archbishop of Boston, skipped Boston College's commencement Monday because of the involvement of Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who supports a bill in his country that would allow abortion.
The State Department on Monday cited a host of actions it says it has taken since the September 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks to improve security at its diplomatic posts worldwide, including the creation of a new deputy assistant secretary of state position to ensure security at "high threat posts" is given the attention it needs.