LONDON (AP) — The U.K. will cut financial ties with Iranian banks over fears about its nuclear program, Britain's Treasury chief George Osborne said Monday. Osborne said all U.K. financial institutions...

BENTON (AP) — Bossier Parish voters have overwhelmingly approved a fourth floating casino in Bossier City — a gaming barge and Margaritaville-themed hotel. KTBS-TV reports 61 percent of those...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Navy says it plans to kick out 28 sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan for using a synthetic drug that mimics marijuana called Spice. The announcement Monday...

HAMMOND (AP) — Southeastern Louisiana University has fired football coach Mike Lucas, effective immediately. The university announced Lucas' dismissal Monday. It did not provide reasons for letting...

NEW YORK (AP) — The mother of a "lone wolf" accused of plotting to attack police stations and post offices with homemade bombs apologized to New Yorkers on Monday, even as questions arose about why...

LONDON (AP) — Actor Hugh Grant told a London courtroom Monday about the dark side of celebrity life, describing mysterious break-ins, leaked medical details and hacked voice mails — and laying...

(AP) — The charter school movement and state education overhaul plans sought by Gov. Bobby Jindal got a boost from the runoff elections for the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. And the...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A spokesman for the FFA says four-seat airplane crashed into Lake Pontchartrain shortly after taking off from Lakefront Airport. Lynn Lunsford says the pilot notified controllers...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — McDonald's Corp. said Friday it has dropped a Minnesota-based egg supplier after an animal rights group released an undercover video of operations at the egg producer's farms in...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A 33-year-old British adventurer preparing for a historic solo crossing of Antarctica was waiting at a base camp for the weather to improve on Sunday in order to begin her...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The sprawling pile of hundreds of thousands of tires isn't easy to spot from the ground, sitting in a rural South Carolina clearing accessible by only a circuitous dirt path...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Artists used paint, ornaments and glitter to transform the human body into artwork at a festival in Venezuela, showing off designs that ranged from pure fantasy to indigenous...