LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. (AP) — A 90-year-old retired physician has been charged with killing his terminally ill wife at their Southern California home but remains hospitalized after turning the gun...

(AP) — The costs of swine flu are pushing Louisiana's Medicaid program over budget, and the state health secretary said Monday he expects a midyear deficit that will need to be closed. Health and...

RESCUE, Calif. (AP) — The body of a Yale student found dead behind a wall on what should have been her wedding day has been returned to Northern California for her funeral. Funeral director Dennis...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Months before a wildfire burned 280 square miles at the edge of Los Angeles, a little-known group was awarded a $178,000 grant to clear flammable brush and tree limbs to protect...

LONDON (AP) — Oil-trading company Trafigura said Sunday it has agreed to a settlement with people who claim they fell ill after a tanker dumped hundreds of tons of waste around the Ivory Coast's...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's supreme leader said Sunday U.S. officials know they are wrongly accusing Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons. In Iran's first official reaction to the U.S. decision...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the State Department are being sued by a diplomat who claims she was discriminated against because of her age.Lawyers for Elizabeth...

NEW IBERIA (AP) — Waiting to hear back from the Guinness World Records people is the hardest part about submitting her 26-year-old mixed terrier as the world's oldest dog, Janelle Derouen says. She...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in two years, Americans actually got a little wealthier. Household wealth grew by $2 trillion, or about 4 percent, this spring, ending the longest stretch of...

BRUSSELS (AP) — EU leaders issued a joint plea to President Barack Obama on Thursday to back their call for rich and developing nations to cap bankers' pay and to impose deeper cuts on emissions...

(AP) — A nearly $45 million list of new state construction spending is moving ahead. The state Bond Commission approved the list of projects Thursday without objection. That list includes local museums,...