MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters say Hurricane Ophelia is expected to pass near or over Newfoundland, Canada, by early Monday. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sunday that Ophelia was a Category...

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...

(AP) — The Conservation Fund expands the Maurepas Swamp Wildlife Management area by 40 percent, joining two previously separated areas of public land west of Lake Pontchartrain. Gov. Bobby Jindal...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan government urged neighboring Pakistan on Sunday to take concrete steps to help end the Taliban insurgency and use its influence to bring the militants to direct...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — When Rhode Island became the 13th state to allow in-state tuition for illegal immigrants at public colleges, supporters heralded the move as one that would give students the...

ALEXANDRIA (AP) — A chance to perform in St. Petersburg, Russia and at Carnegie Hall is bringing 27 pianists from 13 countries to compete in central Louisiana. David Holcombe, president of the Louisiana...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States criticized the U.N. on Thursday for not making deeper cuts in its proposed $5.2 billion budget for the next two years amid an economic crisis that has forced...

HERKIMER, N.Y. (AP) — A New York woman is accused of running over a bound man who she said promised her $180,000 if she ended his life, but police said they have no evidence he wanted to die. Francis...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nearly 400 animal and plant species in the southeastern U.S. are part of a national push by the Obama administration to settle whether hundreds of varieties are endangered. The...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma's schools superintendent said Thursday that her chief of staff's personal Twitter post calling school administrators "dirtbags" was a "poor choice of words" — but...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans will host ArenaBowl XXV in 2012. Officials say the championship event will be the fifth hosted by New Orleans, joining the BCS National Championship game, the NCAA...

MADRID (AP) — A gunman walked into a Catholic church and killed a pregnant woman Thursday, then committed suicide, but emergency crews performed a C-section on the woman inside the church and saved...