(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...

NEW YORK (AP) — College and university endowments made gains in the fiscal year that ended in June, but many are still struggling to make up ground they lost in 2008 and 2009, according to a report...

MOSCOW (AP) — The head of Russia's space agency says that a manned launch to the International Space Station is being postponed from March 30 because of faults found in the Soyuz capsule. Vladimir...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham says the fall shrimp season will close at sunset Thursday in most remaining southeast Louisiana waters. He says the...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's federal health secretary says swine flu cases in January have surpassed the number for all of 2011, a year when the virus barely appeared worldwide. Salomon Chertorivski...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Groups representing states and cities in the Great Lakes region on Tuesday proposed spending up to $9.5 billion on a massive engineering project to separate the lakes...

CAIRO (AP) — A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment. The genetics-environment...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The NFL and a Louisiana recording company have resolved their legal dispute over merchandising rights to the "Who Dat?" chant, a popular refrain of New Orleans Saints fans. A federal...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A new study finds that massive pythons in the Everglades appear to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, opossums, bobcats and other mammals. The report was published...