NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is using poetry to try to boost traffic safety. City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced a new safety campaign Tuesday called Curbside Haiku. Colorful...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Police say three people, including a toddler, remain in critical condition after gunfire erupted while people gathered in Oakland to record a rap music video. Police Chief...

(AP) — A Baton Rouge rapper known as "Lil Boosie" was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison following his guilty plea to drug charges. The rapper, whose real name is Torrence Hatch, pleaded...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Struggling to deal with one of the nation's largest homeless populations, New Orleans and federal officials say they'll work aggressively over the next decade to end homelessness...

LONDON (AP) — Airlines said Monday they are canceling some flights in and out of London's Heathrow Airport ahead of a nationwide public sector strike this week that will include employees who check...

CLEVELAND (AP) — The case of an 8-year-old third-grader weighing more than 200 pounds has renewed a debate on whether parents should lose custody if a child is severely obese. Roughly 2 million U.S....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A top Colombian drug trafficker reputedly responsible for shipping tons of cocaine to the United States through Central America and Mexico has been captured in Venezuela,...

SEATTLE (AP) — A gay softball organization has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to three players who were disqualified from its 2008 Gay Softball World Series because of their perceived heterosexuality. And...

JERUSALEM (AP) — On billboards, on buses and in the halls of parliament, a battle is raging over the nature of Israel, raising ever more urgent questions over its future as a democracy. Radicalized...

GRAND CAILLOU, La. (AP) — A school board member says there may soon be funds for a flood-prone Grand Caillou Middle School,. Board member Roger DeHart tells the Courier everything's in order and...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A young wolf from Oregon has become a media celebrity while looking for love, tracing a zigzag path that has carried him hundreds of miles nearly to California, while his...

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Since the lifting two months ago of a longstanding U.S. ban on gays serving openly in the military, U.S. Marines across the globe have adapted smoothly and embraced the change,...