JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - As they began deliberations Wednesday, jurors in Drew Peterson's trial immediately zeroed in on the case's trickiest issue: whether to believe secondhand hearsay statements that would...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greek police say they have made more than 3,000 arrests in a month-old campaign to hold and deport illegal immigrants.
A police statement says nearly 17,000 people were temporarily...
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) - The Secret Service said Wednesday it is investigating the reported theft of copies of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's federal tax records during a break-in at an...
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI is now a bit greener.
The 85-year-old pontiff was presented with his first electric car Wednesday, a customized white Renault Kangoo for jaunts around the gardens...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Weathered oil in the form of tar balls has washed ashore on some Louisiana beaches from Gulf waters churned by Hurricane Isaac and a state coastal official says it is likely from the...
HOUMA (AP) - South Louisiana residents may be dealing with swarms of mosquitoes breeding in the waters left behind by Hurricane Isaac.
And with Louisiana experiencing the highest rate of West Nile virus...
GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - The U.N.'s labor office says youth unemployment is likely to rise globally to 12.9 percent by 2017 as more young people leave the work force and the euro crisis spreads to emerging...
LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Water-dumping aircraft from Spain and France on Tuesday joined Portugal's battle to halt the spread of wildfires through thick woodlands in the country's north left tinder-dry by...
DES MOINES (AP) - The U.S. corn harvest continues ahead of schedule with some states nearly half-finished at a time when they usually are just getting started.
The USDA said Tuesday in its weekly crop...
BOSTON (AP) - State prison officials must provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder, because it is the only way to treat her "serious medical...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Griselda Blanco, a convicted drug trafficker who was once known as the "Godmother" and the "Queen of Cocaine," has been shot to death by an unidentified gunman, police in Colombia...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in “The Green Mile”...
