LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters reported some progress Tuesday against a gigantic blaze on the edge of Los Angeles, but warned that this one might be just a preview of even greater dangers ahead....

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesians ran screaming out of buildings when a major earthquake rocked the country Wednesday, killing more than 30 people and unleashing a mass of rock and mud that buried...

(AP) — A Monroe pastor who heads a national interfaith organization said Gov. Bobby Jindal should pay his own way, rather than use taxpayer dollars, when he travels to church services around the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities failed to follow through on plans earlier this year to burn away highly flammable brush in a forest on the edge of Los Angeles to avoid the very kind of wildfire...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former chief financial officer for the Housing Authority of New Orleans has been charged with embezzling around $900,000 from the agency that oversees the city's public housing....

(AP) — Drivers who refuse to submit to a breathalyzer test when they are stopped on suspicion of drunken driving face stiffer penalties for the refusal starting Tuesday. Louisiana lawmakers approved...

(AP) — Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said Monday that he'll support legislation to give the state's "insurer of last resort" immunity against certain lawsuits, a proposal that could retroactively...

LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) — Extremely dangerous Hurricane Jimena roared toward Mexico's resort-studded Baja California Peninsula on Monday, prompting emergency workers to set up makeshift shelters and...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two of the three largest U.S. tobacco companies filed suit Monday to block marketing restrictions in a law that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority over tobacco,...

LONDON (AP) — Forty years after the body of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones was found floating in his swimming pool following a binge of drugs and drinking, police said Monday they are reviewing...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean sued pageant officials Monday for libel, slander and religious discrimination, accusing them of telling her to stop mentioning God even...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Authorities stepped up patrols Friday near an area of Jefferson National Forest where a Virginia Tech couple described by their minister as "godly young people" were found slain....