BATON ROUGE (AP) — A former East Baton Rough Parish sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Twenty-eight-year-old Larry Wright, of Zachary, was convicted of attempted possession...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A raging wildfire raced down a mountain slope in Greece toward the town of Marathon on Sunday, while despairing residents pleaded for firefighters and equipment that were nowhere...
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Historians are unsure exactly when and where French explorer Pierre Le Moyne saw the tall cypress pole smeared with animal blood that he described on a map as "le bâton rouge."...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — About a dozen Tulane football players have come down with what the school describes as flu-like symptoms. An athletic spokesman says two have the variety that includes H1N1, more...
KABUL (AP) — The outcry over alleged vote fraud in Afghanistan's election escalated Sunday, with President Hamid Karzai's chief opponent charging that turnout figures were padded and the chief fraud...
MONROE (AP) — Officials at ConAgra Foods Inc. are counting on state farmers to produce more than half the sweet potatoes it will need for the planned Lamb Weston processing plant near Delhi. But...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — When someone in the Raleigh area needed a sheep or goat slaughtered according to Islamic law, Daniel Boyd was the man to see."You find everything from halal meat and snacks to...
CAIRO (AP) — Iran's leadership faced sharp criticism Wednesday from top clerics and even conservative supporters over prison abuses, including detainee deaths and the brutal beatings of protesters...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It's been a tough week for porn actress Stormy Daniels — complete with a domestic violence charge and a car explosion — as she continues to mull a U.S. Senate bid that...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's e-mail box has not been storing "sent" items, an issue raised in a report by a technology group hired by the city as it faced a public records lawsuit...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson's personal doctor administered a powerful anesthetic to help him sleep, and authorities believe the drug is what killed the pop singer, a law enforcement official...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel hardened its insistence Monday that it would do anything it felt necessary to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, just the ultimatum the United States hoped not to hear...
