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...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Teams of insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons struck at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentines traded blame Wednesday for a bus and train collision that killed 11 people and injured more than 200 at a railroad crossing the day before. A brief clip...

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The chief of Libya's revolutionary movement told thousands of cheering Libyans in Tripoli on Monday to strive for a civil, democratic state, while loyalists of the hunted dictator...

BASTROP, Texas (AP) — Paying attention in class may never have been so hard for children who started school Monday after the most destructive wildfire in Texas history left hundreds of their families...

CIUDAD DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP) — Six oil workers who were rescued alive after floating for three days in the Gulf of Mexico are stable and conscious, though suffering from bumps and bruises and sunburnt...

(AP) — An undercover investigation ongoing since April has led to charges against 48 accused drug dealers in Ascension Parish for distributing cocaine, heroin and other illegal substances. U.S. Attorney...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A school policeman who claimed to have been shot while on patrol, sparking a massive manhunt and a school lockdown, was convicted Monday of fraud and other offenses for making...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina is the only southeastern state without a gay marriage ban in its constitution. The idea has gone nowhere in the past as Democratic leaders quashed Republican efforts...

VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — A weakened Tropical Storm Nate made landfall on Mexico's Gulf coast Sunday, where officials opened shelters as a precaution but said the storm was having little impact. Nate...

(AP) — Baton Rouge police say a 21-year-old man has turned himself in for the shooting deaths of a 76-year-old woman and two teenage women, and the wounding of a man who survived. Cpl. L'Jean McKneely,...