LAFAYETTE (AP) — Lafayette authorities are investigating a possible homicide after finding a body in the trunk of a burning car in a rural part of the parish.
Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office spokesman...
LONDON (AP) — Former Beatle Paul McCartney was marrying American heiress Nancy Shevell on Sunday at a town hall in central London where a large crowd of fans and paparazzi turned out to greet them.
The...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean student groups that have been protesting more than five months to demand the government improve education have refused the president's request to resume negotiations...
PHOENIX (AP) — The bulls are better tempered, slower and their horns have been blunted, and this definitely isn't Pamplona.
Nonetheless, they are bulls, and nearly two dozen of them will be chasing...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has become the first state to make it illegal for teenagers under 18 to use tanning beds.
Gov. Jerry Brown said Sunday that he has signed SB746 into law. It goes...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A part of Venezuela's capital is giving dangerous drivers the silent treatment, sending mimes into the streets to do what police alone have not: tame the lawless traffic.
About...
GREENSBURG, La. (AP) — Efforts to turn around St. Helena Parish's troubled schools, which languish at the bottom of state rankings, went Hollywood glam at St. Helena Central High School's homecoming.
Actress...
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's prime minister is warning that rising floodwaters which have wreaked havoc across the nation are now threatening the capital as the death toll from the worst monsoon rains...
(AP) — A New York investment firm has acquired the Cottages of Baton Rouge, a 392-unit student housing complex.
Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors, the private equity real estate arm of Kayne Anderson...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean police used water cannons and tear gas to break up a student march for free public education on Thursday, hours after protesters' talks with the government collapsed.
A...
SAO PAULO (AP) — A friendly, floppy-eared mutt named Fluffy may have earned himself a new nickname in his Brazilian hometown: Ferocious-When-Necessary.
Kenya Suelen Rodrigues of the city of Campo...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Honduras and El Salvador have the highest homicide rates in the world as killings reach a crisis point in Central America, a United Nations report said Thursday.
The study on homicides...
