SAN DIEGO (AP) — The population of endangered green sea turtles at SeaWorld in San Diego grew by 82 in October when a group of eggs hatched on the park's Shipwreck Beach without human help.The park...

(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal has proclaimed this week Pneumonia Awareness Week in Louisiana, to encourage people to ask their doctors whether they should get the pneumonia vaccine. State Health Officer...

(AP) — The state health department Monday pegged a midyear deficit in Louisiana's Medicaid program at $308 million, giving formal notification of the problem to lawmakers.The shortfall for the $6.5...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — As China's actions to curb gas emissions garnered praise at U.N. climate talks, the United States came under renewed pressure to come up with a plan to cut pollution blamed...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea issued a veiled threat to increase its nuclear arsenal if U.S. officials do not quickly agree to the one-on-one talks that the communist regime is demanding....

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Online auction house eBay has removed items that were posted for sale by anti-abortion activists trying to raise money for defense of a man accused of killing a Kansas abortion...

CAMPINAS, Brazil (AP) — A German man reportedly dumped by a Brazilian woman he met on the Internet camped out in an airport for 13 days before being taken Thursday to a hospital for a psychological...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans lawyer has been nominated to serve on the federal court for Louisiana's Middle District.President Obama announced Brian Jackson's nomination Thursday.Jackson is a...

(AP) — Some are there because of the recession, and others despite it. Regardless, more young Americans than ever are in college — especially community college, according to a new report.A...

(AP) — Louisiana's Medicaid program is more than $250 million over budget this year, as swine flu made costs rise and Medicaid rolls grew amid the national recession, the state health secretary said...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Defense attorneys are neither entitled to the source code for the breath-testing machine commonly used in drunk driving cases nor to its software, the Arizona Court of Appeals...

LONDON, Ontario (AP) — Six members of the Bandidos biker gang were found guilty Thursday of murdering eight men associated with the gang in the worst mass slayings in Ontario history.Wayne Kellestine,...