BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Nearly all of Louisiana's public colleges have met the performance standards they need to be allowed to raise tuition on students by 10 percent in the upcoming school year, the...

CAIRO (AP) - Medical officials say ousted President Hosni Mubarak's health condition has taken a turn for the worse. The officials at the military hospital in Cairo where Mubarak is being treated said...

Feeling hot? It's not a mirage. Across the United States, hundreds of heat records have fallen in the past week. From the wildfire-consumed Rocky Mountains to the bacon-fried sidewalks of Oklahoma, the...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The wreckage of a military plane found this month on an Alaska glacier is that of an Air Force plane that crashed in 1952, killing all 52 people aboard, military officials said...

HOUMA, La. (AP) - Lafourche Parish sheriff's deputy has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a minor in Terrebonne Parish. The Courier reports (http://bit.ly/MUGTRI ) 40-year-old Murphy J. Melancon...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A widening sex scandal has rocked Lackland Air Force Base, where every American airman reports for basic training. Allegations that male instructors had sex with, and in one case raped,...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Two freight trains that collided in an Oklahoma wheat field weren't blowing horns or flashing lights as they hurtled toward one another, according to long-haul trucker who watched from...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) - Archaeologists in Greece's second-largest city have uncovered a 70-meter (230-foot) section of an ancient road built by the Romans that was city's main travel artery nearly...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Giant tortoise experts from near and far have begun an autopsy of Lonesome George, a giant tortoise whose failed efforts to reproduce made him a symbol of disappearing species. The...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The New Orleans Hornets have a new broadcasting deal with Fox Sports, which will televise most of the NBA club's games on a rebranded Fox Sports New Orleans affiliate. The agreement,...

HAMMOND (AP) - Tangipahoa Parish sheriff's deputies have cleared a 14-year-old murder case. Sheriff Daniel Edwards said Monday that 32-year-old Ronnie Saulsberry, of Tickfaw, La., was booked last Wednesday...

ELLIOT LAKE, Ontario (AP) - Officials have suspended rescue efforts following a weekend roof collapse at a shopping mall in northern Ontario that led to at least one death and at least one other person...