TOKYO (AP) - Most of the quarter-million people who fled massive flooding in southwest Japan were able to return home by Monday, but the danger had not fully passed from record rains that have killed at...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With the Mississippi River running at low levels, salt water is moving up from the Gulf of Mexico. The Times-Picayune reports that denser, heavier saltwater flows upriver beneath fresh...

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - A West Texas plastic surgeon paid someone $9,000 - in the form of three silver bars - to kill another doctor who was dating his ex-girlfriend, police alleged Monday. Dr. Thomas Michael...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The California Supreme Court on Monday tossed out the death sentence of a man convicted of murdering rock guitarist Dave Navarro's mother and her friend nearly 30 years ago - a ruling...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - More than 3,000 lots flooded by Hurricane Katrina and bought with federal money in an emergency bailout sit idle across this city - a multimillion-dollar drain on federal, state and...

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - A local Libyan TV station manager says two of his journalists have been freed after more than a week being held captive by militiamen from a onetime stronghold of ousted ruler Moammar...

LONDON (AP) - Residents of a London apartment tower went to court Monday in a bid to stop their rooftop from being used as a missile base during the Olympic Games, saying the deployment in a densely-populated...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Amy Senser so regretted a hit-and-run crash that killed a rising young restaurant chef that she tattooed his name on her wrist and told his family she waits for the day she can meet...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - An agent with extensive experience in public corruption cases has been named head of the FBI's New Orleans division. Monday marked Michael J. Anderson's debut as special agent in charge...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Roger Wilson, a Missouri Democrat who was elevated to the governor's job after the plane crash that killed Gov. Mel Carnahan, was sentenced Monday to two years of probation for misusing...

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) - Two Britons and an American were gored Monday on the third day of Spain's famed running of the bulls through the cobblestoned streets of Pamplona, the most gorings for one run so...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans-based Smoothie King Franchises Inc. is being sold to a South Korean company. Smoothie King currently has more than 600 units operating in 32 states, the Caymans and the Republic...