Ken Stanford

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an ardent reader of jihadist websites and extremist propaganda, U.S. officials said Tuesday, adding another piece to the body of evidence they say suggests the two brothers were motivated by an anti-American, radical version of Islam.

Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, the powerful Senate Finance chairman who steered President Barack Obama's health care overhaul into law but broke with his party on gun control, said Tuesday he will not run for re-election.

France legalized gay marriage on Tuesday after a wrenching national debate and protests that flooded the streets of Paris.

A contract has been awarded for a project in Forsyth and Gwinnett counties that includes widening 1.079 miles of State Route 20 to a four-lane divided highway and constructing two parallel bridges over the Chattahoochee River. Meanwhile, traffic delays are likely the rest of the week on busy Georgia 369 (Browns Bridge Road) in Forsyth and Hall counties because of work on the road's shoulders.

Two men face a bail hearing Tuesday after their arrest on charges of plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al-Qaida elements in Iran, authorities said.

Parked around the airstrip at Lackland Air Force Base are more than a dozen massive C-5A Galaxy transport planes. There is no money to fly them, repair them or put pilots in the cockpits, but Congress rejected the Air Force's bid to retire them.

Tax-free shopping on the Internet could be in jeopardy under a bill making its way through the Senate.

Delta Air Lines is reporting a small first-quarter profit, as passengers paid more to fly.

Once again, the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) is hosting its annual Preseason Junior at Ch