NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police say officers on Carnival parade crowd patrol chased a teen who was acting suspiciously and found that he had a gun belonging to the Jefferson Parish sheriff's...
SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian airliner safely made a forced landing after a passenger had a "psychotic attack," entered the cockpit and assaulted a pilot, crew members and passengers who tried to...
BENTON, La. (AP) — Authorities are looking for an east Texas man missing since a boating crash at the Red River Marina in south Bossier Parish.
Sheriff's Office spokesman Bill Davis says the missing...
DENVER (AP) — A 20-year-old college student tried to throw glitter on Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney as he greeted supporters in Denver following Colorado's caucuses.
Denver police said...
OZARK, Mo. (AP) — A British armored car guard suspected of driving off with a fortune worth $1.5 million back in 1993 has been captured in rural Missouri, where he had been working as a cable guy...
BEIJING (AP) — Another Tibetan has set himself on fire in western China to protest government policies while thousands marched in another part of China to show support for their exiled spiritual...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A suburban New Orleans middle school has taken down a display of students' political cartoons after several parents complained about images of President Barack Obama, including...
GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) — The historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in western Mexico, equal to half of all meth seizures worldwide in 2009, feeds growing speculation that the country...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Qasim Khan waged the unlikeliest of battles with Pakistani authorities Thursday over the right to charge hundreds of curious visitors the equivalent of 22 cents each to see...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional Tuesday, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration...
(AP) — The father of a 4-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself to death has been arrested. Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Don Kelly says 26-year-old Shawn Dean was booked with second-degree cruelty...
(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal's proposed changes to benefits for state workers are unconstitutional, unnecessarily harsh and unfair to employees vested in the system, state employee retirement system...
