KABUL (AP) — A suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle outside the Indian Embassy in the bustling center of the Afghan capital Thursday, killing 17 people in the second major attack in the city...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A female UCLA student was hospitalized Thursday after a fellow student slashed her throat in a chemistry lab on campus, authorities said.A male suspect was arrested after UCLA...
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...
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...
(AP) — Community Coffee Co. agreed Tuesday to settle allegations of hiring discrimination and pay $190,000 to 1,100 minority applicants. The company did not agree to the allegations, saying it decided...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Gunmen kidnapped Somalia's state minister for defense Tuesday during a trip to the Ugandan capital, a Somali government spokesman said.Minister Yusuf Mohamed Siad was abducted...
