JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South African police and security guards fired rubber bullets and tear gas Monday at sacked gold miners who were attacking colleagues to block them from working, the mine owner said....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Tens of thousands of customers remained in the dark Monday in Louisiana and Mississippi, nearly a week after Isaac inundated the Gulf Coast with a deluge that still has some low-lying...
LAKE CHARLES (AP) - Police officers and emergency medical workers were among about 70 men who pranced through a Lake Charles mall in women's high-heeled shoes to raise awareness of rape and sexual assault...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 100-year-old man who was attempting to back his Cadillac out of a grocery store parking lot struck and injured 11 people, nine of them children. The accident in front of a South Los...
The great American essayist H.L. Mencken said there existed to every problem a solution - neat, plausible or wrong. Within this spectrum of possible outcomes is where the United States now finds itself...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Dozens of Harvard University students are being investigated for cheating after school officials discovered they may have shared answers or plagiarized on a final exam. Harvard...
LA VISITE NATIONAL PARK, Haiti (AP) - Police officers and other officials went to one of Haiti's few national parks with weapons and orders for hundreds of squatters to vacate the homes and farms they...
LONDON, (AP) - It was scooped up from the sea after 98 years, and now officials say a message in a bottle discovered in Scotland has set a world record. Fisherman Andrew Leaper found the bottle- released...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Rapidly expanding wildfires across a broad swath of southern Montana have caused injuries and burned homes, buildings and vehicles, authorities said Thursday, as firefighters struggled...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Since Katrina, the Army Corps has worked at breakneck speed - and at a cost of billions of dollars - to install new floodgates, pumps, floodwalls and levees across New Orleans. The work...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - About 270 miners were charged Thursday with the murders of 34 striking colleagues who were shot by police officers, authorities said, a development that could further...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Oil giant BP says it will donate $1 million to support relief efforts related to Hurricane Isaac. BP says the donation will be made to the American Red Cross and The Salvation Army and...
