Republican Scott Brown's come-from-behind victory over Democrat Martha Coakley gives Republicans their 41st senator, costing Democrats their 60-vote Senate majority and ensuring the minority has enough votes to block legislation.

Police in Virginia say a gunman who killed eight people in a rural part of the southeastern U.S. state has turned himself in.
They identify the gunman as 39-year-old Christopher Speight, and say he surrendered early Wednesday without incident.

The Justice Department's inspector general says the FBI used a variety of methods that circumvented legal requirements for obtaining phone records in terrorism investigations.

A 69-year-old ardent Roman Catholic who said she prayed constantly during her week under the rubble was among the unlikely survivors of the epic Haitian earthquake.