WASHINGTON (AP) — A House vote Thursday put Congress on the verge of significantly expanding hate crimes law to make it a federal crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation. The...
(AP) — The state plans to delay action on three proposals by charter schools to teach courses online, officials said Thursday.The proposals — by one New Orleans charter school and two in Baton...
DETROIT (AP) — Scuffles erupted as several thousand Detroit residents jockeyed, pushed and shoved Wednesday to get free money being offered to only 3,500 of the city's recently or soon to be homeless.Several...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal budget deficit tripled to a record $1.4 trillion for the 2009 fiscal year that ended last week, congressional analysts said Wednesday.The Congressional Budget Office...
(AP) — East Baton Rouge Parish officials say they expect to earn up to $33 million during the next 20 years with a new methane collection project at the North Baton Rouge Landfill.Construction is...
WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA will throw a one-two punch at the big old moon Friday, and the whole world will have ringside seats for the lunar dust-up.NASA will send a used-up spacecraft slamming into...
BEIJING (AP) — China's top envoy on North Korean issues said Wednesday that Pyongyang's readiness to hold discussions with the U.S. is a positive development that could pave the way for a resumption...
(AP) — A Chinese company plans to build a plant in Baton Rouge to manufacture a radiation treatment device.Huiheng Medical Inc. would employ up to 300 people at salaries of up to $75,000 if the Food...
(AP) — The Outback Steakhouse restaurant chain is scrapping plans to serve imported shrimp in Louisiana.Bruce Attinger, a partner in the Florida-based company, said Wednesday that the company had...
PARIS (AP) — Now that's one big foot.Paleontologists in eastern France have reported the discovery of some of the largest dinosaur footprints ever documented, measuring about 1.4 meters to 1.5 meters...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A top suspect wanted for orchestrating athe killings of thousands of people in Rwanda's 1994 genocide — including children, hospital patients, priests and even an elderly...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama on Tuesday ruled out shrinking the Afghanistan war to a counterterrorism campaign. Yet he did not signal whether he is prepared to send any more troops to the war...
