FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — More than 200 people, including many schoolchildren returning from holidays, were missing and feared dead Thursday, a day after a wooden boat capsized at sea, authorities...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has given his approval to a $20 million settlement of lawsuits against several Louisiana levee boards filed on behalf of thousands of homeowners whose property...
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans planned beach cleanups, packages for soldiers and save-the-tree fundraisers along with familiar remembrances in three cities to mark eight years since the attacks of Sept....
(AP) — A 2007 state law allows $100,000 disability benefits for certain Louisiana National Guard soldiers, but the rules are so restrictive that no one has qualified for the money, the head of the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A South Carolina Republican lawmaker shouted "You lie" at President Barack Obama as he addressed Congress on Wednesday. The congressman later apologized for his "lack of civility."...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Bolivian religious fanatic briefly hijacked a jetliner from the beach resort of Cancun as it landed in Mexico City on Wednesday, police said. All passengers and the crew were...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two years after Las Vegas chapels hit the wedding date jackpot with lucky sevens, it's all eyes on the nines for 9-9-09. Wedding officials in Sin City and elsewhere staged a marathon...
(AP) — Checks for $250,000 have been delivered to five families of Louisiana National Guard soldiers who died while on active duty. National Guard Maj. Michael Kazmierzak said Wednesday that the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Shuttle Discovery's astronauts aimed for a Thursday evening landing to wrap up their successful space station delivery mission, but late summer storms threatened to keep...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said Wednesday he is collecting information on possible war crimes by NATO forces and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Luis Moreno...
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) — Grenada has sold some 100 Venezuelan-built houses at a deep discount to people left homeless by Hurricane Ivan in 2004, the island's leader said Wednesday. More than...
LAFAYETTE (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit that accuses a Louisiana school district of illegally segregating male and female students. ACLU lawyers filed the federal...
