SOUTHWEST RANCHES, Fla. (AP) — In one of South Florida's upscale, rural enclaves, town leaders decided to bring in much of their money from an unusual business: a prison.
Only the leaders of Southwest...
(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...
(AP) — For the first time since there was a federal ozone standard, the five-parish area of East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Livingston, Iberville and Ascension is meeting it.
Steven Moret, secretary...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Thousands of flesh-eating piranhas have infested a river beach popular among tourists in western Brazil and have bitten at least 15 unsuspecting swimmers, authorities said Wednesday.
Officials...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A major university in eastern North Carolina was locked down for three hours Wednesday when a man carrying a golf umbrella was mistaken for a gunman.
Greenville Police spokesman...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The wave of Hispanics who flooded the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina doesn't appear to have dampened Louisiana families' demand for their children to get a French education.
There's...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. authorities estimate 17 tons of marijuana were seized in the discovery of a major cross-border drug tunnel linking warehouses in San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico.
Authorities said...
BEIJING (AP) — An overloaded school minibus crashed head-on with a truck in rural western China on Wednesday, killing at least 18 kindergarten children on their way to class, officials said.
Sixty-two...
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II attended a ceremony at London's Westminster Abbey on Wednesday to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, often considered the most influential book ever...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A national park in Congo best known for its endangered mountain gorillas is now inviting tourists to go on overnight treks to see a volcano spurting fountains of lava nearly...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union broke a political deadlock Monday and extended for two years a 500 million euro ($680 million) food program that benefits 18 million of its poorest citizens.
Without...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A group of Central American women who traveled through Mexico for two weeks in search of missing relatives ended the journey with the discovery of one of their sons, a spokeswoman...
