HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — Perhaps there was one heartbreak too many for Mindy McCready.
The former country star apparently took her own life on Sunday at her home in Heber Springs, Ark. Authorities...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal says he won’t change his mind about expanding Louisiana’s Medicaid coverage under the federal health care law, even though a half dozen other...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre has renewed his call for armed guards in schools and urged gun owners to “stand and fight” for the Second Amendment.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military censor, which has long served as the country’s guardian of state secrets, is suddenly under the microscope following a pair of sensitive reports broken...
LONDON (AP) — British police investigating computer hacking and privacy offenses by the media on Wednesday arrested six people alleged to be involved in intercepting voice mails for the defunct News...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — With a humble “Grazie” as bishops doffed their mitres and applause echoed through St. Peter’s Basilica, a frail Pope Benedict XVI began his long farewell by...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Maintenance workers swept and hosed down sidewalks outside of bars, restaurants and strip clubs and street-sweeping trucks made continuous passes on Bourbon Street as a few straggling...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — More schools are on the list for Louisiana’s voucher program next year, so the number of students using taxpayer dollars to go to private schools is expected to grow.
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THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — A Lafourche Parish judge has postponed a ruling on whether a man accused of beheading his disabled son is able to help his attorneys and therefore fit to stand trial on a charge...
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) — There was no question. The man standing before Rick Heltebrake on a rural mountain road was Christopher Dorner.
Clad in camouflage from head to toe and wearing a bulletproof...
DETROIT (AP) — Warnings about the zombie apocalypse may seem pretty amusing, but officials say they’re dead serious about figuring out who hacked into the nation’s public warning system...
HOUSTON (AP) — Carnival Cruise Lines has canceled a dozen more planned voyages aboard the Triumph and acknowledged that the crippled ship had been plagued by other mechanical problems in the weeks...
