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....

ISLAMABAD (AP) — In Washington, the Pakistani nightmare is of the country's nuclear arsenal falling into the hands of Taliban militants or rogue soldiers. But though Washington has given billions...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 — the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday....

(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal may run into legislative problems for his plans to roll $128 million in proceeds from Louisiana's tax amnesty program into next year's budget.Jindal has said he wants to...

ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska (AP) — Nearing a decision on sending more troops off to war, President Obama told a military audience Thursday he will not dispatch them into conflict without proper...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Relentless rain drenched much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, pelting communities from North Carolina northward with gusty winds and heavy rains, inundating streets, stranding...

(AP) — Louisiana health officials increased the number of people eligible for the swine flu vaccine, announcing Wednesday that people between the ages of 24 and 65 with chronic medical conditions...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate ethics committee has dismissed a complaint that Sen. Mary Landrieu steered $2 million to a Texas company in exchange for campaign donations.Landrieu's 2001 earmark for...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Actress Sandra Bullock is walking the red carpet in New Orleans next week for a special premiere of her latest film, "The Blind Side," opening in theaters Nov. 20.Bullock, who...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Six Hells Angels motorcycle club locations were raided Wednesday in an investigation of a brawl that left two people with stab wounds at a Las Vegas wedding chapel nearly a year...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — It looked like a stunning reversal: The same church that helped defeat gay marriage in California standing with gay-rights activists on an anti-discrimination law.On Tuesday,...