(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...
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage, setting the stage for the state to become the seventh to allow gay and lesbian...
CAIRO (AP) — One of the Arab world's best known Egyptian comedians has been sentenced to three months in jail for offending Islam, a judge said Thursday, in the latest such case against a high-profile...
VILLA RICA, Colombia (AP) — Assailants in pickup trucks fired homemade mortars at a police station in this western town Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding more than 20, the regional...
CAIRO (AP) — At least 74 people were killed and hundreds injured after soccer fans rushed the field in Port Said Wednesday after an upset victory by the home team over Egypt's top club, setting off...
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...
