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In this picture taken on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 and made available on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia lays on its starboard side after it ran aground off the coast of the Isola del Giglio island, Italy, gashing open the hull and forcing some 4,200 people aboard to evacuate aboard lifeboats to the nearby Isola del Giglio island. About 1,000 Italian passengers were onboard, as well as more than 500 Germans, about 160 French and about 1,000 crew members.

Search efforts resume, more ship survivors would be ‘miracle’

By The Associated Press
January 26, 2012

ROME (AP) — Search efforts aboard the capsized Costa Concordia resumed Wednesday, even as the official overseeing the operation acknowledged for the first time it would take a miracle to find any...

Gingrich vows to, if elected, establish a colony on the moon by 2020

By The Associated Press
January 26, 2012

COCOA, Fla. (AP) — Newt Gingrich is promising to establish a permanent base on the moon by 2020 if he's elected president. Gingrich, the former House speaker, told an overflow crowd gathered on Florida's...

WWII destroyer returns to SC home after repairs

By The Associated Press
January 26, 2012

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — With the blare of air horns, cheers and a champagne toast, "The Ship That Would Not Die" returned Wednesday to its home at a maritime museum on Charleston Harbor on the...

Shreveport’s Moonbot Studios earns Oscar nomination for film

By The Associated Press
January 26, 2012

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Champagne corks were flying at Moonbot Studios in Shreveport. Its first movie — "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" — is one of five Academy Award...

Uzbekistan cancels shows, orders poetry readings on Valentine’s Day

By The Associated Press
January 25, 2012

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Authorities in Uzbekistan are, apparently, unwilling to give love a chance. The Russian news agency RIA-Novosti cited several local media in the Central Asian nation reporting...

Russia: Liberal leader can’t seek presidency, invalid signatures found

By The Associated Press
January 25, 2012

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's elections commission said Tuesday that a prominent opposition leader will be disqualified from running for president in March, a move that would prevent his party from fielding...

Marine avoids life sentence for Iraqi civilian deaths in long-awaited trial

By The Associated Press
January 25, 2012

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — Military prosecutors worked for more than six years to bring Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich to trial on manslaughter charges that could have sent him away to prison...

Biggest solar storm in six years casts dazzling lights in night skies

By The Associated Press
January 25, 2012

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A storm from the broiling sun turned the chilly northernmost skies of Earth into an awe-provoking art show of northern lights on Tuesday. Stargazers were stunned by the intensity...

Alabama hit again by tornadoes; 2 dead, more than 100 hurt

By The Associated Press
January 24, 2012

OAK GROVE, Ala. (AP) — At least two tornadoes roared across Alabama on Monday, killing two people and injuring more than 100 others. More than 200 homes were destroyed, the Red Cross said, and just...

Baby girl abducted in illegal Mexican adoption ring

By The Associated Press
January 24, 2012

ZAPOPAN, Mexico (AP) — Karla Zapeda was approached by a woman asking to use the 15-year-old's baby girl in a two-week photo shoot for $755 ($10,000 pesos), a small fortune for a teen mother who earns...

Part of budget shortfall cause by one-time money

By The Associated Press
January 24, 2012

(AP) — The $895 million shortfall projected for the upcoming budget year shouldn't come as a total surprise to lawmakers or Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration. At least 40 percent of the gap is tied...

Baton Rouge bicyclist killed by drunk driver Saturday

By The Associated Press
January 24, 2012

(AP) — Baton Rouge police say a 28-year-old man accused of drunk driving, killed a bicyclist and injured another. Cpl. L'Jean McKneely tells The Advocate that Joseph Branch was booked into the East...