WASHINGTON (AP) — Further evidence the recession is ending came in a report Thursday confirming that the economy shrank at an annual rate of just 1 percent in the spring. Many analysts say growth...
WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA will test the powerful first stage of its new Ares moon rocket Thursday, a milestone in a program that has already spent $7 billion for a rocket that astronauts may never use....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana's non-farm work force fell by 9,500 jobs from July 2008 to July 2009 — a drop slowed by more government jobs — as the state's overall job picture remained...
ATLANTA (AP) — A shirtless man hijacked an Atlanta public school bus with about a dozen students aboard Thursday and then jumped out of the driver's seat as the bus careened down a steep hill, a...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico now has one of the world's most liberal laws for drug users after eliminating jail time for small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and even heroin, LSD and methamphetamine....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Shelia Phillips doesn't see the New Orleans that Mayor Ray Nagin talks about, the one on its way to having just as many people and a more diverse economy than it did before Hurricane...
KABUL (AP) — A roadside bomb and gunfire attack killed a U.S. service member in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, a death that pushed August into a tie with July as the deadliest month of the eight-year...
BOSTON (AP) — For the first time in nearly half a century, Massachusetts voters will be handed ballots for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Edward Kennedy without his name on them. The long list...
(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal plans to sit down with shrimpers on Thursday to discuss what they say are unnaturally low prices for their product. Hundreds of shrimpers protested on the state Capitol steps...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An appeals court ruled Wednesday that federal agents were wrong to seize the infamous drug list and samples of 104 Major League Baseball players who allegedly tested positive...
(AP) — Three retired judges will look through cases of teenagers at a north Louisiana youth prison where violence has escalated to determine if some of the juvenile offenders could safely be moved...
BERLIN (AP) — Sketched on yellowing parchment, the 29 blueprints presented to Israel's prime minister Thursday lay out the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in chilling detail, with gas chambers, crematoria,...
