Bard to stage Sergey Taneyev's opera 'Oresteia'

As part of perhaps the most spectacular walk-of-shame ever, an underwear-clad lover escaped from a third floor bedroom as the returning husband confronted his cheating wife on a balcony.

There's a reason that many eyes were on Plaza Towers Elementary as Moore, Oklahoma began to assess the damage from a deadly, devastating tornado that blasted through the town Monday evening and killed at least 51 people: the school was leveled, with dozens of children still inside. And so far, some of the most emotionally charged news has emerged from the story unfolding there. 

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Several children have been pulled out of the rubble alive at a school in an Oklahoma City suburb.

Entire neighborhoods and two elementary schools were obliterated

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The outgoing head of the Internal Revenue Service took responsibility on Tuesday for his agency's decision to expose its political targeting scandal by planting a question in the audience at a tax conference. Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller told a congressional hearing that IRS official Lois Lerner's orchestrated apology during an American Bar Association conference question-and-answer session was meant to "get the apology out" before a Treasury Department audit on the matter was published. "I will take responsibility for that," Miller said. ...

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Newly released police records show that Utah officials believe Josh Powell likely killed his wife and that his brother, Michael Powell, helped dispose of the body, but authorities felt they didn't have enough evidence to prove that theory in court.