AP-AS-Japan-Tsunami-Harley/372 Tsunami-swept Harley in container found in Canada MALCOLM FOSTER,Associated Press TOKYO (AP) - It must have been a wild ride. Japanese media say a Harley-Davidson motorcycle...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The use of hand-held cell phones while driving would be prohibited in Louisiana, if senators agree with the Louisiana House. Similar proposals have failed in recent years to gain...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal judge in New Orleans has preliminarily approved a proposed class-action settlement that would resolve billions of dollars in claims against BP over the 2010 oil spill in the...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A 19-year-old with Down syndrome took his case for high school sports eligibility to state lawmakers Wednesday, arguing that Michigan should join a growing number of states that consider...

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. officials say the public will soon be able to read some of Osama bin Laden's last written or typed words online. White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan says some of the...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A former Obama administration official says Osama bin Laden wanted to see President Barack Obama and Gen. David Petraeus assassinated. But Michael Leiter tells NBC's "Today" show he didn't...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama gave a steely defense of his handling of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and his use of it to burnish his re-election credentials a year later, saying Monday...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - The wife of an ex-aide to John Edwards broke down on the witness stand Monday as she recounted how the candidate asked the couple to hide his affair. Testifying at Edwards' campaign...

(AP) - Louisiana celebrities and notables munched on an elaborately decorated birthday cake, Quebec sent a present and the post office unveiled a commemorative stamp Monday to celebrate the 200th anniversary...

NEW YORK (AP) - One World Trade Center, the monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, claimed the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday. Workers...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A buried bomb killed two children in eastern Afghanistan who triggered the explosive when they were playing outside near their village, officials said Monday. Both children killed...

(AP) - East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies have released the names of two women killed Saturday in a car accident on South Tiger Bend Road near Baton Rouge. Col. Lawrence McLeary said 75-year-old...