(AP) — An East Feliciana Parish man has been convicted in the 2008 slaying of his former girlfriend and her 3-year-old son and the attempted killing of two of the woman’s other children...
(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal’s tax restructuring plan would shift $500 million in tax costs from individuals to businesses, the governor’s leader on the effort said Tuesday.
Tim Barfield,...
BISMARCK (AP) — North Dakota’s governor positioned the state Tuesday as a primary battleground in the fight over abortion rights, signing into law the nation’s toughest restriction...
HOUSTON (AP) — A Louisiana man has pleaded not guilty to extorting money from a Texas A&M University professor about a week before the professor jumped to his death from a campus building in...
HAMBURG, Pa. (AP) — The calendar says it’s spring, but the weather hardly feels like it.
A large storm system that deposited snow, sleet and cold rain on much of the East Coast was finally...
PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Paris for talks with French officials about aid to the Syrian opposition and the situation in Mali.
Kerry arrived in the French capital Tuesday...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s military warned Tuesday that its artillery and rocket forces are at their highest-level combat posture in the latest in a string of bellicose threats...
BANGKOK (AP) — The multibillion-dollar trade in illegal wildlife — clandestine trafficking that has driven iconic creatures like the tiger to near-extinction — is also threatening the...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s government and rebels traded accusations Tuesday of a chemical attack on a northern village for the first time in the civil war, although the U.S. said there...
DENVER (AP) — After a no-holds-barred White House push for sweeping gun control legislation across the country, Democrats have racked up only one victory outside the ideologically friendly confines...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — To law enforcement agencies, the disappearance of a Missouri woman and her young daughter for four days had all the markings of an abduction: a cryptic text message asking...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three alleged members of a violent American Indian gang known for terrorizing people in the Upper Midwest were convicted Tuesday in what authorities called one of the largest gang...
