DONORA, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania man was wearing a jail inmate costume when police arrested him on a weapons charge and for allegedly insulting police who came to arrest his friend on Halloween. The...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police have made the first arrest at the Occupy New Orleans gathering. A man who threatened another person with a machete and forced the victim to leave the park was...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man hatched a creative scheme to avoid going to prison on a drug charge: He lied to authorities and said he was an illegal immigrant so he could get deported to Mexico...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Interpol has launched a campaign to help save the world's last wild tigers in the 13 Asian countries where they still exist, winning praise from conservationists. The project...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — President Barack Obama has sent a letter to Bosnian leaders urging them not to support the Palestinian bid for statehood at the U.N. Security Council, authorities...

GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — In the violent underground novel "Absolved," right-wing militia members upset about gun control make war against the U.S. government. This week, federal prosecutors accused...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dozens of scientists asked Gov. Bobby Jindal on Wednesday to scrap a 1987 law that bars state marine agents from enforcing federal rules requiring shrimpers to have special devices...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire scheduled its first-in-the-nation presidential primary for Jan. 10, finally giving candidates a concrete calendar after months of uncertainty. The date, announced...

BANGKOK (AP) — There's no food left for sale anywhere near Thipawan Pipatkul's house. In fact, there's not much of her house left above the surface now that the fetid black waters have poured in....

SHREVEPORT (AP) — A young boy was critically injured Wednesday at the Louisiana State Fair after he was trapped under a ride in the fair's children's section. The accident happened shortly before...

BEIJING (AP) — China moved one step closer to setting up its own space station early today (Beijing time), with two spacecraft docking successfully above the earth. The state-run Xinhua News Agency...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego school district superintendent is praising a high school for choosing a lesbian couple to be homecoming king and queen but says he's sad that the school has received...