SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Thirteen people including three doctors have been indicted for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, according to a statement Thursday from the U.S. Attorney's Office. The...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A businessman convicted of bribing two New Orleans city officials for millions of dollars in City Hall contract work has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison. U.S District...

EXETER, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island State Police say two girls who visited the grave of a 19th-century teen rumored to have been a vampire were killed after their car missed a turn on Purgatory Road...

MERAUX (AP) — Valero Energy Corp. agreed Thursday to acquire Murphy Oil Corp.'s refinery at Meraux for about $625 million. The deal includes $325 million for the refinery and related assets and $300...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Tangipahoa Parish School Board and plaintiffs in the 46-year-old desegregation lawsuit have filed a compromise in federal court more than six weeks after coming to an agreement. The...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has blocked Gov. Susana Martinez's administration from requiring some immigrants to recertify their driver's licenses and verify if they still live in the...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Smoke from a swamp fire is blowing over Lake Pontchartrain instead of New Orleans. City health commissioner Karen DeSalvo says that apparently cut the number of emergency room...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An Amnesty International researcher says Ethiopian officials arrested two opposition politicians after group members interviewed them about politically motivated arrests. Researcher...

NEW YORK (AP) — A reputed Jamaican drug kingpin described by U.S. authorities as among the world's most dangerous drug dealers pleaded guilty to racketeering and assault charges Wednesday, admitting...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile's first lady on Wednesday reassured all 33 rescued miners that the government won't abandon them, a day after she announced early retirement benefi ts for just under...

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — A spokesman for President Malam Bacai Sanha said that the leader has been taken to neighboring Senegal for a medical checkup. Agnelo Regala told The Associated Press...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian police say a U.S. citizen kidnapped last week from his home in the capital has been freed. Police spokesman Frantz Lerebours says the kidnappers of Frank Jean-Baptiste...