BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts court on Tuesday overturned a ruling by a judge who ordered a mentally ill woman to undergo an abortion against her wishes and be sterilized.
The Massachusetts Appeals...
MIAMI (AP) — Federal officials say it's now illegal to import four types of snakes that have been plaguing the Everglades.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the ban Tuesday on Burmese pythons,...
VENICE (AP) — A coal freighter ran aground near the mouth of the Mississippi River Tuesday and was freed a short while later, but the incident raised fresh questions about cutbacks in the Army Corps...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Five foreign tourists were killed by unknown armed rebels in Ethiopia's Afar region in the north, Ethiopian state television reported on Tuesday.
The Ethiopian Television,...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has gone to extremes to try to stop commuters from illegally riding the roofs of trains — hosing down the scofflaws with red paint, threatening them with...
LONDON (AP) — British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.
Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang,...
(AP) — A Baton Rouge police spokesman says nine children were treated for non-life-threatening injuries after the school bus they were in crashed Tuesday at an intersection.
The Advocate reports...
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Jon Huntsman abandoned his once-promising campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday and endorsed Mitt Romney as the man "best equipped to defeat Barack...
SHREVEPORT (AP) — Public pajamary might get you busted in Caddo Parish if a parish commissioner has his way.
The Times reported that Commissioner Michael Williams said an incident at a local Walmart...
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — Just days before being arrested, a Marine veteran suspected in the deaths of four homeless men in Southern California visited his father, who is himself homeless, warning...
METAIRIE (AP) — Louisiana authorities are investigating the deaths of a married couple in which the woman apparently shot her husband early Monday, then called 911 to report the slaying before shooting...
LONDON (AP) — A Vincent van Gogh landscape and other paintings from the collection of Elizabeth Taylor are up for auction in London.
Christie's auction house says 38 works belonging to the late actress...
