http://www.daily-chronicle.comRSS from www.daily-chronicle.comen-usMOUNT VERNON, Wash. – A truck hauling an oversized load struck an overhead bridge girder on the major interstate between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below. All three occupants suffered only minor injuries.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/24/wash-i-5-bridge-collapse-caused-by-oversize-load/a3ubg7v/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/24/wash-i-5-bridge-collapse-caused-by-oversize-load/a3ubg7v/Fri, 24 May 2013 15:18:00 GMTMOORE, Okla. – A massive tornado was carving its way through town. There was no time to hesitate. LaTisha Garcia had to get to her children.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/23/distraught-mom-becomes-face-of-oklahoma-storm/aaktkz5/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/23/distraught-mom-becomes-face-of-oklahoma-storm/aaktkz5/Fri, 24 May 2013 10:30:00 GMTWASHINGTON – Moving quickly to stem a raging controversy, the new acting head of the Internal Revenue Service started cleaning house Thursday by replacing the supervisor who oversaw agents involved in targeting tea party groups.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/24/irs-replaces-official-in-tea-party-controversy/a8786zw/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/24/irs-replaces-official-in-tea-party-controversy/a8786zw/Fri, 24 May 2013 10:30:00 GMTWASHINGTON – President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than the grandiose plots of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/24/obama-sees-narrower-terror-threat-defends-drones/ag14p82/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/24/obama-sees-narrower-terror-threat-defends-drones/ag14p82/Fri, 24 May 2013 10:30:00 GMTMOUNT VERNON, Wash. – An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping vehicles and people into the water, the Washington State Patrol said.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/24/i-5-bridge-collapses-in-nw-wash-people-in-water/a8bavm7/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/24/i-5-bridge-collapses-in-nw-wash-people-in-water/a8bavm7/Fri, 24 May 2013 04:11:00 GMTGRAPEVINE, Texas – The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders – a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of members and donors.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/23/boy-scouts-approve-plan-to-accept-openly-gay-boys/aav8vd0/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/23/boy-scouts-approve-plan-to-accept-openly-gay-boys/aav8vd0/Fri, 24 May 2013 03:27:00 GMTWASHINGTON – President Barack Obama was interrupted three times by a woman who shouted about drones and detainees in Cuba as he delivered a speech on national security.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/23/anti-war-protester-shouts-at-obama-during-speech/abnfkfg/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/23/anti-war-protester-shouts-at-obama-during-speech/abnfkfg/Thu, 23 May 2013 20:07:00 GMTLONDON – Two men accused of butchering a British soldier had been part of previous investigations by security services, a British official said Thursday, as investigators searched several locations and tried to determine whether the men were part of a wider plot to instill terror on the streets of London.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/23/uk-attack-suspects-part-of-previous-investigations/aeandqy/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/23/uk-attack-suspects-part-of-previous-investigations/aeandqy/Thu, 23 May 2013 17:04:00 GMTMOORE, Okla. – With its single-story design and cinder-block walls, Plaza Towers Elementary School may have seemed sturdy when it was built a couple of generations ago. But a powerful tornado revealed the building's lack of modern safety standards, destroying the school and killing seven students.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/22/school-storm-protection-is-spotty-in-tornado-zones/abmqzi7/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/22/school-storm-protection-is-spotty-in-tornado-zones/abmqzi7/Thu, 23 May 2013 10:30:00 GMTWASHINGTON – At the center of a political storm, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents targeted conservative groups swore Wednesday she did nothing wrong, broke no laws and never lied to Congress. Then she refused to answer lawmakers' further questions, citing her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/22/irs-official-says-she-broke-no-laws-then-takes-5th/aqx9g8k/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/22/irs-official-says-she-broke-no-laws-then-takes-5th/aqx9g8k/Thu, 23 May 2013 10:30:00 GMTCEO pay has been going in one direction for the past three years: up.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/23/median-ceo-pay-rises-to-9-7-million-in-2012/avxxfhw/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/23/median-ceo-pay-rises-to-9-7-million-in-2012/avxxfhw/Thu, 23 May 2013 10:30:00 GMTIn a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/23/doctors-save-ohio-boy-by-printing-an-airway-tube/ak7tiv4/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/23/doctors-save-ohio-boy-by-printing-an-airway-tube/ak7tiv4/Thu, 23 May 2013 10:30:00 GMTLONDON – Two U.K. government officials say a brutal attack that left one man dead near a London military barracks appears to have been motivated by radical Islam.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/22/uk-officials-radical-islam-drives-london-attack/al3duw1/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/22/uk-officials-radical-islam-drives-london-attack/al3duw1/Wed, 22 May 2013 20:24:00 GMTORLANDO, Fla. – A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot to death by authorities early Wednesday after he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife, officials said.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/22/man-shot-to-death-while-questioned-in-boston-probe/avnp76b/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/22/man-shot-to-death-while-questioned-in-boston-probe/avnp76b/Wed, 22 May 2013 19:47:00 GMTWASHINGTON – Summoned by Republicans, a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups plans to invoke her constitutional right against self-incrimination and decline to testify at a congressional hearing today.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/21/irs-official-to-take-the-5th-at-house-hearing/ausa2j9/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/21/irs-official-to-take-the-5th-at-house-hearing/ausa2j9/Wed, 22 May 2013 10:30:00 GMTWASHINGTON – Far-reaching legislation that grants a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters somberly sidestepped a controversy over the rights of gay spouses.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/21/senate-panel-approves-immigration-bill/a2w5lx8/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/21/senate-panel-approves-immigration-bill/a2w5lx8/Wed, 22 May 2013 10:30:00 GMTWASHINGTON – The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say. But there isn’t enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration prefers.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/21/fbi-ids-benghazi-suspects-but-no-arrests-yet/aflwg21/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/21/fbi-ids-benghazi-suspects-but-no-arrests-yet/aflwg21/Wed, 22 May 2013 10:30:00 GMTWASHINGTON – The Senate dragged Apple Inc., the world’s most valuable company, into the debate over the U.S. tax code Tuesday, grilling CEO Tim Cook over allegations that its Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in U.S. taxes.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/21/apples-cook-faces-senate-questions-on-taxes/ab4xvky/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/21/apples-cook-faces-senate-questions-on-taxes/ab4xvky/Wed, 22 May 2013 10:30:00 GMTA deadly tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday. A quick look at some basic facts:http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/21/more-tornadoes-from-global-warming-nobody-knows/aig4wwd/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/21/more-tornadoes-from-global-warming-nobody-knows/aig4wwd/Tue, 21 May 2013 15:04:00 GMTMOORE, Okla. – Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children.http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/21/search-for-okla-tornado-survivors-nearly-complete/awfv0pi/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/05/21/search-for-okla-tornado-survivors-nearly-complete/awfv0pi/Tue, 21 May 2013 13:50:00 GMT