UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rejoined a U.N. conference on the nuclear test-ban treaty Thursday after a 10-year U.S. absence from the biennial meeting. She reported...
HONG KONG (AP) — Months after abruptly resigning as Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin resurfaced in Hong Kong on Wednesday more moderate in tone and better versed in international affairs, possibly...
(AP) — A rise in the ranks of Louisiana's unemployed will force business taxes to increase and state benefits for jobless workers to shrink next year, moves designed to keep the state's unemployment...
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas grandmother who acknowledged running a scheme in which her family members married scores of foreigners seeking to stay in the United States was sentenced Wednesday to nearly...
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia residents returning Wednesday to homes soaked by days of torrential rains were warned of a hidden danger — disease-causing bacteria and jagged debris harbored by stagnant,...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal's ban on state spending involving troubled community activist group ACORN has stopped two possible contracts in the Department of Social Services,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling on the world to end massive government subsidies that encourage the use of fossil fuels blamed for global warming. The president, who is set to...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After 170 years fishing and crabbing in the swamps of south Louisiana, the Isle de de Jean Charles Band of Boloxi-Chitimacha-Choctow has decided to move away from its ancestral...
(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal is urging the Minerals Management Service to expand offshore drilling, but to also pay Louisiana more to fix the damage offshore drilling has caused to the state's coast....
NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao offered each other diplomatic assurances Tuesday at a testy time in their nations' complex relationship.Obama said he was looking...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Recovery Authority backed plans Tuesday to spend a $112 million slice of hurricane recovery aid on first responder radios, business loans and grants, fisheries...
