DALLAS (AP) — Immigrant girls and women will no longer have to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus to get their green cards.Starting Dec. 14, the HPV, or human papillomavirus vaccine...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a group of fighting men, injuring 12 people outside a concert hall, authorities said Monday.The gunfire erupted Sunday night near the Regency Ballroom...

(AP) — A new program is available in East Baton Rouge and surrounding parishes to help match people with community services so they can stay out of nursing homes.The idea is to help people find the...

(AP) — Good ideas die hard. Steele Burden, whose family gave more than 400 acres of land on either side of I-10 near Essen Lane to LSU, laid out a tree and shrub identification trail behind what...

THOMSON, Ill. (AP) — Some folks in this dying Mississippi River town would rather take their chances with suspected terrorists in their backyard than watch their neighbors continue to move away in...

TAGAB VALLEY, Afghanistan (AP) — Rockets slammed into a market northeast of Kabul on Monday, killing 12 civilians but missing their presumed target: a meeting between France's top general in Afghanistan...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian President Alan Garcia accused Chile of assaulting Peru's sovereignty, throwing his weight behind allegations that Chile paid a Peruvian military officer to spy.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms abducted and killed 13 people whose bodies were found Monday with gunshot wounds to the head.

SHANGHAI (AP) — President Barack Obama is walking a tightrope on his first trip to China, seeking to enlist help in tackling urgent global problems while weighing when and how — or if —...

TAGAB VALLEY, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of French and Afghan troops on Sunday pushed into a hostile valley in eastern Afghanistan where militants launch quick attacks, then disappear into hillside...

CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn says selling a prison in rural northwest Illinois to the federal government is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create jobs in the struggling area.But plans to sell...

HAMMOND, La. (AP) — A judge has ordered the Tangipahoa Parish School Board to increase its hiring of black educators for administrative positions.Under the order by U.S. District Judge Ivan L.R....