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...

(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...

(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...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh left his battered nation Sunday on his way to the U.S. for medical treatment after passing power to his deputy and asking for forgiveness for...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The wildfire that destroyed 29 homes near Reno is contained. Thousands of evacuees are back home. And the family of the woman found dead says there's no point in prosecuting the...

DETROIT (AP) — The federal government now says a 101-year-old Detroit woman it promised could move back into her foreclosed home four months ago can't return because the building's unsanitary and...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Baton Rouge Speech and Hearing Foundation has launched a campaign to raise $7 million for a new, larger facility where children and adults with communications disorders...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A magnitude-6.2 earthquake that hit off the coast of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Saturday shook as far a0way as El Salvador but brought no immediate reports of damage...

MANY, La. (AP) — Greener pastures are greeting some of the malnourished and neglected horses seized two weeks ago from a Sabine Parish property owner. The Sabine Humane Society has been successful...

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Italy has returned to Libya the head of a 2,000 year-old statue that was smuggled out of the country in the 1960s. Prime Minister Mario Monti gave the sculpted head of Domitilla...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The first black woman to serve on the federal bench in Louisiana was honored at a formal investiture ceremony Thursday. The ceremony for Nannette Jolivette Brown was held at the...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Five unemployed Moroccan men set themselves on fire in the capital Rabat as part of widespread demonstrations in the country over the lack of jobs, especially for university...