SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Wildlife officials in Puerto Rico plan to relocate a male manatee who escaped from a rehabilitation area during a hurricane. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman...

MIAMI (AP) — Programs like NBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?" and PBS' "Faces of America" are helping fuel genealogy trends. For many Hispanics, tracing family trees hasn't been easy. Now that's changing...

(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal has ordered flags at state buildings to be flown at half-staff Thursday, the day of the funeral of Archbishop Philip Hannan. Hannan died last week at age 98 and will be buried...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — After a surge of new speculation, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie declared with finality Tuesday that "now is not my time" to run for president, dashing the hopes of Republicans...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran criticized Turkey on Tuesday for agreeing to allow NATO to station an early warning radar in the southeast of the country that will serve as part of the alliance's missile...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Saying there is too little privacy and often too little time and space provided for meetings with their clients, lawyers for low-income defendants in New Orleans are suing Sheriff...

WAXAHACHIE, Texas (AP) — A fire official says a massive blaze at a plant south of Dallas is nearly contained and about 1,000 residents who had been forced to evacuate are being allowed to return...

ST. PAUL Minn. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is losing her pollster and senior adviser in a staff exodus that raises questions about the viability of her White House bid...

GRETNA, La. (AP) — A robbery at a suburban New Orleans convenience store turned out to be fake, but eight suspects are facing real legal trouble. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said in a...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian officials said Monday that the U.S. has suspended West Bank development projects worth tens of millions of dollars after Congress froze funding to dissuade...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An 87-year-old Baton Rouge woman who had eaten cantaloupe in recent weeks died of listeria over the weekend, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals said Monday. Bacteria...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Roman Catholics in Poland gathered Sunday for a special Mass celebrating what they see as a miracle: the appearance on a communion wafer of a dark spot that they are convinced...