LONDON (AP) — An English auction house is selling a chunk of metal it says came from the buttock of a bronze Saddam Hussein statue that was toppled in Iraq in 2003.
Charles Hanson, of Hansons Auctioneers,...
SHREVEPORT (AP) — A man who allegedly tried to pass himself off as a Shreveport police officer during a fight in a parking garage has been arrested on a charge of impersonating a police officer.
Police...
(AP) — The Louisiana Cemetery Board has filed suit against the owners of a north Baton Rouge cemetery and its overseer, Lymus Washington, for operating without a license for the past eight years.
The...
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...
LONDON (AP) — Big Ben has a little bend.
Experts say the neogothic clock tower — one of the world's most recognizable landmarks — is gently leaning to one side. Documents recently published...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal fisheries official says an aerial survey has failed to find a juvenile killer whale last seen swimming in a river in southwest Alaska. NOAA Fisheries spokeswoman...
MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — Four hours into a family fishing trip, rough waves flipped a 22-foot boat off the Florida Keys, tossing eight people overboard. Seven of them, including a 4-year-old girl, survived...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Hardware store manager Mike Dowling wants to be clear: His shovels might slow an attacking zombie, but you'll need something else to put the final nail in the creature's coffin.
"I...
ROME (AP) — State TV in Italy says pirates have attacked an Italian cargo ship carrying 23 crew members in waters off Somalia.
The ship's owner, D'Alessio Group, said five armed men conducted the...
SHREVEPORT (AP) — Health officials are looking at ways to stem the rising number of syphilis cases in northwest Louisiana.
There were 142 cases of primary and secondary syphilis in adults in Caddo...
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Coptic Christians have long felt like second-class citizens in their own country.
Now many fear that the power vacuum left after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak is giving Muslim...
