BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former Argentine President Carlos Menem and 17 members of his government were acquitted Tuesday of charges that they violated international weapons embargoes on Ecuador...

(AP) — A state judge has ruled that suspected serial killer Jeffery Lee Guillory spoke "freely and voluntarily" to Baton Rouge police in 2006 and 2009. Tuesday's ruling by District Judge Tony Marabella...

(AP) — The state plans to erect more than 20 miles of additional cable median barriers along Interstate 10 to prevent crossover accidents, including one near a site where five people were killed...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former New Orleans police officer who pleaded guilty in May to seven counts of rape has been sentenced to 210 years in prison. The Times-Picayune reports Christopher Buckley's...

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) — A coastal mayor says tests show tar balls washed onto Alabama's beaches by a recent tropical storm are from last year's BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Orange Beach...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A West Texas teenager who collected $17,000 in donations after telling people she was dying of leukemia and had only had six months to live faces theft charges after police...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council is considering a new resolution that would establish a U.N. mission in Libya, unfreeze assets of two major oil companies and lift a ban on flights by Libyan...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Census figures from 2010 show that nearly 43,000 children under 14 years of age are living with a partner in Brazil in defiance of laws forbidding these unions. Brazil's penal...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Gumby has surrendered. San Diego police say the man accused of trying to rob a convenience store last week dressed as the famous claymation character turned himself in Tuesday, with...

GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) — Residents in a prosperous Southern California neighborhood infested by a pack of coyotes are urging authorities not to trap and kill the animals. The coyotes took up residence...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's tourism minister has resigned amid allegations of misusing public funds. Pedro Novais is the fifth minister to resign since June. No replacement has been named. The...

PAINCOURTVILLE (AP) — Assumption Parish sheriff's deputies say that when a woman was pulled over for a possible seat-belt violation, her passenger pushed her out of the car, took the wheel and drove...