WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House panel of independent space experts says NASA's return-to-the-moon plan just won't fly. The problem is money. The expert panel estimates it would cost about $3 billion...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Folks who choose to sneak down country roads and dump their trash could be in for a rude awakening. If a hidden camera or the member of a stepped-up patrol, catches them in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Take responsibility for your education. Go to class and listen. Don't let failures define you. That's the advice President Barack Obama gave school children on Tuesda yin a speech...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters have contained 60 percent of the huge wildfire that has burned north of Los Angeles for 14 days. U.S. Forest Service spokesman Tom Debellis said Tuesday that the 251-square-mile...

(AP) — Louisiana Congressman Charles Boustany will deliver the Republicans' speech in response to President Obama's health care speech this week. The Lafayette Republican's press office said Tuesday...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With results in from standardized tests given to Louisiana public school students this past spring and summer, the state education department said Tuesday that there was a 4 percent...

KABUL (AP) — Four U.S. troops died Tuesday in a militant attack in eastern Afghanistan, and NATO forces acknowledged for the first time that civilians were among the dozens killed in an airstrike...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza students won't learn about the Holocaust this year.Angry protests by Palestinians have disrupted tentative plans to introduce information about the Nazi genocide...

BOSTON (AP) — Former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II, the eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy, announced Monday he would not run for the U.S. Senate seat held for nearly 50 years by his late uncle, Edward...

ROME (AP) — Italian authorities plan to expand Venice's port into a bustling shipping hub, further endangering the fragile lagoon and contributing to the sinking of the treasured city built on water,...

(AP) — The price tag to run an environmental lab for soil and water analysis tops $5 million a year. The state's environmental quality secretary estimates a private company could do the work for...