OBERLIN (AP) — A former Oakdale snake farm owner has been sentenced to jail for cruelty to animals, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said Monday.
Allen Parish sheriff's deputies...
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...
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...
CHICAGO (AP) — White House chief of staff Bill Daley says he'll return to his native Chicago after the 2012 election.
Daley tells WMAQ-TV he has committed to stay with President Barack Obama in Washington...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Over the past month, one by one, people suspected in domestic battery cases in northeast Kansas have been set free with no charges against them. Prosecutors say they're overwhelmed...
