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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Investigators collect evidence at King Soopers grocery store morning in Boulder, Colo., where a suspect in a case involving an undetonated pipe bomb and two propane tanks at a Denver-area shopping mall on April 20 was arrested.
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Michelle Schlesinger of Baltimore prays Sunday after receiving Communion during Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle. Ms. Schlesinger was in town spending the Easter holiday with her sister, who lives in Washington. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Dean West and his wife, Nancy, show off the 1974 Volkswagen Super Beetle he has converted to run on all-electrical power in the garage of his home in Milton, Wash. Electric-car advocates say the state of Washington risks alienating Mr. West and others like him with proposed legislation that would impose a $100 annual fee on electric cars to make up for lost gas-tax revenue. (Associated Press)
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Customers peruse cameras and other electronics at the 40,000-square-foot store, which offers merchandise ranging from shoes to samurai swords at between 20 percent and 80 percent off. (Associated Press)
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This space in the attic of the Passive House in Bethesda, Md., shows one of the SIPs, or structurally insulated panels. All joints are taped and/or insulated to help prevent any air leaks. The insulation and sealing are two of the most important components of the Passive House. According to Brendan O'Neill Jr. with the O'Neill Development Corporation, a governing body must certify all work in the house to make sure it meets Passive House standards. This image was made Monday, April 18, 2011. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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The O'Neill Development Corporation and Peabody ArchItects are building the area's first Passive House in Bethesda, Md. Although it looks like a normal house from the outside, it is completely energy efficient and designed to save an average of 90 percent of the cooling and heating energy of a standard home. Some of the features that help are 8-inch-thick walls, triple-glazed windows, and extra insulation and sealing. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Crude gushes from the top of the transition spool, which was placed into the Deepwater Horizon wellhead to house the containment cap at the site of the leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The 2010 explosion at the offshore platform released an estimated 170 million gallons of crude into the Gulf. (Associated Press)
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STOCK SHOCK: Jarrett Johnson (top) of Cohen Capital Group talks to fellow traders Monday at the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks plunged after S&P's credit warning. (Associated Press)
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An above-ground Metrorail station at Washington Dulles International Airport would be located here, outside Daily Garage 1, at the airport in Chantilly, Va. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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A victim of a narco-crime is found along a road on the outskirts of Acapulco, Mexico. There are a half-dozen words for drug cartel informants and double that for drug war dead, but Mexicans worry that developing a kind of offhand jargon anesthetizes people by making violence seem routine. (Associated Press)
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A trading post undergoes modernization on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, April 18, 2011. Stocks are sharply lower after Standard & Poor's issued a warning on U.S. government debt. Fears about Europe's debt problems are also pushing markets lower. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
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Annina Purdy, who was inside the Lowe's hardware store in Sanford, N.C., on Saturday, April 16, 2011, when a tornado destroyed the building, returned to the store's parking lot Sunday to reclaim personal belongings from her car. (AP Photo/Ted Richardson)
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Sen. Mark Warner, Virginia Democrat, said he thinks that "everything has to be on the table," including "new revenues," to address the nation's fiscal woes. (CBS via Associated Press)
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Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said Sunday that Republicans are assuring the White House that "Congress will raise the debt ceiling." (ABC via Associated Press)
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U.S. specialty food sales sizzled last year in what industry experts believe is a sign consumers are more confident. The specialty food and drink business increased 7.7 percent, representing more than $70 billion in sales. The category encompasses non-brand-name food and drink items, from cheeses, breads and yogurt to salsa, relishes and coffee. (Associated Press)
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D.C. Council member Mary M. Cheh has set a Committee on Government Operations and the Environment personnel practices hearing for April 29. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation Texas fisherwoman, her face smeared with syrup to represent oil, protests against BP as British police officers prevent her from entering the London conference center where the petroleum giant held the annual general meeting of its shareholders Thursday. "I think a lot of the shrimpers are concerned," she said. (Associated Press)
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A trip to Ireland that might include visits to well-known spots such as Dublin's Temple Bar is a more affordable option than in the Emerald Isle's Celtic Tiger economic boom. With hotel speculators and banks in bankruptcy, more than 350 hotels now belong to the government and foreign banks, and savvy online shoppers can find below-market rates even in the heart of Dublin. (Associated Press)
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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 13, 2011, about President Barack Obama's speech on the deficit and his plan for future spending. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
