CLEVELAND (AP) — Sixteen Amish men and women were convicted Thursday of hate crimes for a series of hair- and beard- cutting attacks on fellow sect members in a religious dispute that offered a rare...
CAIRO (AP) — Under the cover of darkness, a few municipality workers quietly began to paint over an icon of Egypt’s revolution: a giant, elaborate public mural on the street that saw some of...
LONDON (AP) — Hours after a British soldier in Afghanistan told medics she was suffering from stomach pains, the Royal Artillery gunner unexpectedly gave birth to a boy — the first child ever...
ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — Rebels have taken a major stride in uniting their ranks in the battle for Syria’s largest city, giving them hope they could tip the balance after three months of bloody,...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Gulf of Mexico fishing boats hauled in far more menhaden last year than in 2010. Catches of some other important species were above pre-spill levels in some Gulf Coast states....
HOUSTON (AP) — Waving American flags and space shuttle toys, hundreds of people lined the streets and crowded the airport Wednesday as they watched space shuttle Endeavour touch down in Houston on...
(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal on Wednesday backed nearly $14 million in state construction spending to build a new automobile technology training center at Baton Rouge Community College.
The center...
DENVER (AP) — President Barack Obama’s administration will create a national monument at a dramatic rock formation in southwestern Colorado that is sacred to the Southern Ute tribe, officials...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. seafood catch reached a 17-year high last year, with all fishing regions of the country showing increases in both the volume and value of their harvests.
Commercial...
YIDA, South Sudan (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have already swarmed to a refugee camp in South Sudan and community chiefs expect a new wave to soon begin the trek from Sudan’s war-torn...
ROME (AP) — Is a scrap of papyrus, suggesting that Jesus had a wife, authentic?
Scholars on Wednesday questioned the much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar that a 4th century fragment of...
BEIJING (AP) — China said Wednesday it was investigating an incident where about 50 protesters surrounded the car of the U.S. ambassador, tried to block him from entering the embassy compound and...
