WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama called his war council together Monday as he moves toward a decision on whether to add more U.S. forces in Afghanistan. White House press secretary Robert...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — State officials are urging the Army Corps of Engineers to stop discarding sediment it dredges from the Mississippi River and use more of it to restore eroded wetlands.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Gunmen ambushed a caravan of political supporters and journalists on their way to file election papers Monday, killing at least 21 people in a massacre considered shocking...
CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a 12-year-old boy assaulted by a group of middle school classmates in Southern California may have been targeted after an Internet posting urged students...
SHREVEPORT (AP) — A vacant house in Shreveport that served as the backdrop for four homicides in two years has been reduced to a mound of rubble by city order.A homeless man was gunned down inside...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, as an air force commander boasted the country...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz say dozens of protesters who were occupying the university's main administrative building have ended their protest.Campus...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive "dumbos" that flap...
HOUMA (AP) — A grand jury in Houma has indicted a Chauvin man accused of beating and smothering his girlfriend's 10-month-old baby on a first-degree murder charge. Authorities say 23-year-old William...
CAIRO (AP) — Angry soccer fans rampaged through a posh diplomatic neighborhood in Cairo over the weekend, smashing shop windows and shouting obscenities in a frenzy fed by venomous headlines that...
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade girls were attacked at a Long Beach high school. Long Beach Police...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Baton Rouge man has been arrested on a charge he assaulted an ex-wife of former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards during a domestic dispute.Brian Low, 34, allegedly grabbed Candace...
