NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is designating nearly 6,500 acres in Mississippi and Louisiana as critical habitat for the endangered Mississippi gopher frog - the only endangered...

NEW YORK (AP) - An arbitrator ruled Monday that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has the authority to discipline former Saints defensive end Anthony Hargrove for the New Orleans bounties program. University...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) - Nik Wallenda can't visit a new place without envisioning a wire strung high above his head: Linking buildings, landmarks, nations. Even as a 6-year-old at Niagara Falls with...

PUEBLA, Mexico (AP) - It was the stuff of a major film studio's next animation project: Nine African baby elephants orphaned after their parents were poached, but then miraculously rescued to a wild game...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities say something that looks like lungs have been found on a sidewalk in south Los Angeles County. Sheriff's Sgt. Robert Dean tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/LkBEdZ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) - Morocco's ambitious and expensive plan to draw 40 percent of its energy needs from the limitless power of its sun by 2020 received a publicity boost this week as the first solar-powered...

MOSCOW (AP) - Two Siberian tiger cubs abandoned in Russia by their mother found an unusual wet nurse - a wrinkled, sand-colored Shar Pei dog named Cleopatra, a zoo worker said Wednesday. The cubs were...

ISTANBUL (AP) - The United States and its allies in Europe, Turkey and the Arab world have agreed to work on a political transition plan for Syria, hoping to persuade President Bashar Assad's powerful...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Sixty-eight years after Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, historians and veterans at the National World War II Museum Wednesday recalled the sacrifices made as troops under...

NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge in Manhattan joined judges across the country Wednesday by striking down a key component of a federal law denying benefits to partners in a gay marriage. U.S. District Judge...

SHREVEPORT (AP) - A man fleeing Bossier City police crashed a pickup into a school bus loaded with children in Shreveport. Shreveport police say it happened shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday. As many as 15...

OSKALOOSA, Iowa (AP) - An unusual discovery of mammoth bones on a rural Oskaloosa farm has experts studying prehistoric life excited about scientific discoveries that may lie with the massive beast. The...