Russia's Olympic flop sparks Soviet nostalgia MOSCOW (AP) — Anger and Soviet nostalgia are sweeping Russia after its dismal showing at the Vancouver Olympics, triggering a purge of sporting officials...

Former Gitmo detainee now running Taliban resistance to US LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (AP) — A man who was freed from Guantanamo more than two years ago after claiming he only wanted to go home and...

US questions Jamaica's reliability as ally against drug traffickingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jamaica's reluctance to hand over an alleged crime boss is straining relations with the U.S., which...

ODESSA, Texas (AP) — All over town ran a lone goat as Odessa police and animal control officers tried to catch the roaming animal. The report to police came in Saturday as a sheep on the loose. Officers...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Nearly 200,000 homes and businesses were still without power Monday as restoration efforts continued days after a slow-moving storm battered the Northeast with heavy snow,...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Prosecutors urged a Venezuelan court to approve a request for the U.S. to extradite former President Carlos Andres Perez for violence committed during protests.

VIENNA (AP) — Russia's president said Moscow was ready to consider new sanctions on Iran for its nuclear defiance on Monday and the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned that he...

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — Police say a long-missing journalist in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco was killed by a drug cartel's hit men who dissolved his body in acid.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — In South Carolina, any group that plans to overthrow the federal government — or any other government in the U.S. — must register its activities.It's the law.Now...

PLAQUEMINE (AP) — A teacher at the Math, Science and Arts Academy in Plaquemine has died after a motorcycle wreck.State police say 40-year-old Amanda Burns of Zachary was riding her motorcycle northbound...

(AP) — Jury selection is set to begin Monday in the first-degree murder trial of a Missouri man accused of fatally beating his girlfriend's 2-year-old son in 2007 while attempting to toilet train...

Chile earthquake death toll hits 708 as rescue efforts ramp upCONCEPCION, Chile (AP) — Heroism and banditry mingled on Chile's shattered streets Sunday as rescuers braved aftershocks digging for...