PITTSBURGH (AP) — Some black residents of a Pittsburgh community have complained that an image of a hanged man on a billboard advertising a Halloween attraction is offensive.
The billboard is for...
BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Lawmakers in Europe and elsewhere must do more than put their debt-wracked houses in order — they must reassure citizens who fear diminished future prospects, and that...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Three people have been charged following the discovery of four malnourished mentally disabled adults chained to a boiler in a locked northeast Philadelphia basement room that...
SHREVEPORT (AP) — The Caddo Parish coroner's office is sending bones found in a Shreveport yard to the forensic anthropology lab at Louisiana State University.
Erin Deutsch of the coroner's office...
OPELOUSAS, (AP) — The Opelousas Board of Aldermen is taking a tough look at the cost of paying police to staff festival parades.
The Daily World reported the board has not yet adopted a city budget....
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Central American authorities said on Sunday that at least 66 people had died in six days of heavy rains that caused landslides, floods and bridge failures throughout...
CAVE CREEK, Ariz. (AP) — It's not the organized panic on the streets of Pamplona, but a few hundred thrill-seekers got a similar rush running from bulls in the Arizona desert Saturday.
The run with...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 90-year-old Kansas woman whose sorority dreams were disrupted by World War II is finally getting to be a pledge.
Bertie McConnell was surprised on her 90th birthday Saturday...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Sunday that U.S. military "personnel" being sent to Uganda to help fight the rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army will not participate...
MIAMI (AP) — State figures show that hundreds of welfare applicants in Florida have declined to take drug tests that have been required for the assistance since July.
Thirty-two applicants failed...
TAURANGA, New Zealand (AP) — Rough weather has jostled a cargo ship stuck off New Zealand's coast and worsened its oil leak fivefold to make it the country's worst maritime environmental disaster...
ROME (AP) — British and U.S. forces freed an Italian cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates in a dramatic rescue Tuesday after retrieving a message in a bottle tossed by hostages from a porthole alerting...
