LAKE CHARLES (AP) — A pretrial hearing will resume Tuesday afternoon in Lake Charles for a gynecologist charged with video voyeurism and sexual battery.
The question is whether prosecutors can...
(AP) — Southern University board member Tony Clayton says Louisiana could save a lot of money by folding Grambling State University into the Southern University system.
He tells The Advocate he...
NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers railed Sunday against a utility that has lagged behind others in restoring power two weeks after the superstorm that socked the region, criticizing its slow pace as well...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge shown in a video beating his teenage daughter in 2004 will return to the bench this week after the Texas Supreme Court lifted his suspension.
The justices...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A massive explosion sparked a huge fire and killed two people in an Indianapolis neighborhood where about three dozen homes were damaged or destroyed, authorities said Sunday....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Customs authorities in Dubai have seized ivory worth as much as 15 million dirhams ($4.1 million) from more than 100 poached elephants.
The UAE’s state...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A spokesman for the Palestinian president says the Palestinians will proceed with asking the U.N. General Assembly to recognize a Palestinian state, despite a personal...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is digging in after gay marriage initiatives scored big wins this week in U.S. and Europe, vowing to never stop insisting that marriage can only be between a man and...
(AP) — Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal is being urged by Louisiana Democratic leaders and advocacy groups to reconsider his opposition to expanding the state’s Medicaid coverage, now that the...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has refused to throw out one of two obstruction of justice charges an ex-engineer for energy company BP faces after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Kurt Mix...
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, partially blind, her right arm paralyzed and limp, came face to face Thursday with the man who tried to kill her last year, standing...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A man napping in a Montana cornfield was startled out of his snooze when he was run over by a large harvesting machine — and Yellowstone County deputies say he’s...
