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...

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...

(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...

(AP) — First-time claims for unemployment insurance in Louisiana for the week ending Nov. 5 increased from the previous week's total. The state labor department figures released Monday show the initial...

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man accused of attempting to sneak out of the country with restricted U.S. military documents, money and equipment in order to join al-Qaida was convicted Monday of trying...

THIBODAUX (AP) — The family of an education student who died of cancer and Nicholls State University have set up a scholarship for other high-achieving cancer patients or survivors. Robyn Adele Ford...