STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize officials were facing a formal inquiry over accusations they have drifted away from the prize's original selection criteria by choosing such winners as...

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A 32-year-old woman convicted of stealing more than $1.7 million from her former employer has committed suicide. The Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office says Danielle Guidroz...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah prosecutors have cleared police officers of any wrongdoing after they used pepper spray and batons on a group of Polynesian spectators performing a traditional war dance...

EL CERCADO, Mexico (AP) — The bodies of John and Wanda Casias came one last time to the Baptist church they founded in a violence-plagued region of northern Mexico as mourners paid homage Thursday...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta laid out the administration's most explicit portrayal of the U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan, saying Wednesday that U.S. and other international forces...

(AP) – It's free, but job seekers and employers must pre-register at www.uschamber.com/veterans/events, by clicking on New Orleans link and filling out the form. The military-to-civilian recruiting...

HOBOKEN, N.J. — The city of Frank Sinatra's birth has denied a request for a spinoff of MTV's "Jersey Shore" reality show to film in the city. Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer says the Film Commission's...

NEW YORK (AP) — As J.C. Penney Co. aims to re-invent itself, it's hoping a famous former employee can help out. Talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres, who worked at a Penney store in Louisiana as a teen...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont prison inmate who makes stationery and license plates has gotten the best of the state police by adding the image of a pig to the state decal on their cruisers. One...

(AP) — A federal program that provided temporary housing assistance to nearly 20,000 families displaced by two 2008 hurricanes has come to an end. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A tiny amount of radiation could have escaped from a Southern California nuclear power plant after a water leak prompted operators to shut down a reactor as a precaution, but plant...

RUSTON, La. (AP) — Louisiana Tech running back Tyronne Duplessis was found dead Thursday morning at his off-campus apartment. Hazel Woods, the chief investigator for the Lincoln Parish coroner's...