CORDOVA, Ala. (AP) — Main Street in this old mill town looks about the same as it did the day after tornadoes killed about 250 people across Alabama a year and a half ago.
The entire one-block...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Diplomats say Southeast Asian leaders have decided to launch a human rights declaration despite last-minute calls for a postponement by critics, including Washington,...
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s leader has ordered a new prisoner amnesty ahead of a historic visit to the country by President Obama on Monday.
State television said Sunday that President...
PARIS (AP) — The controversial Ukrainian group Femen, whose topless members stage pranks to support gay rights, have taunted a march in Paris by Catholics who oppose France’s draft law to legalize...
(AP) — More than $179 million in state construction projects will go forward after the Bond Commission on Thursday approved the list of spending plans submitted by Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A state appeal court says that the Jefferson Parish Public School System illegally cut teachers’ pay by imposing an unpaid day of leave for every teacher in the district.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A day of reckoning arrived for BP on Thursday as it agreed to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the deadly Gulf of Mexico spill and pay a record $4.5 billion, including the...
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A court hearing for the man charged with the Colorado movie theater killings has been postponed after his attorneys said Wednesday that he had been taken to a hospital for...
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Uruguay came one step closer to turning the government into the country’s leading pot dealer on Thursday, as lawmakers formally introduced to Congress a framework...
TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) — An Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter jet crashed onto a Florida Panhandle highway Thursday, but the pilot was able to eject safely and there were no immediate reports...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Scores of Ugandans were isolated Thursday to prevent the spread of a new outbreak of Ebola which has already killed three people.
Uganda has experienced increasingly regular...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Miners at Anglo American Platinum Ltd. operations in South Africa returned to work Thursday, ending a more than eight-week strike that crippled the world’s largest platinum...
