MOSCOW (AP) - The Russian parliament on Wednesday passed a Kremlin bill restoring gubernatorial elections, with opponents saying the new law will still allow the president to screen out undesirable candidates. The...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A New Orleans judge who overturned a gang leader's earlier conviction and death sentence in a 2006 quintuple killing has given him an 80-year sentence for manslaughter, saying her earlier...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - A sergeant will be discharged for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook in a case that called into question the Pentagon's policies about social media and its limits on the speech...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - As Anders Behring Breivik has given shocking and remorseless accounts to a Norwegian court of how he massacred 77 people, his testimony has revived a debate about how much of a public...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy quietly signed a new law Wednesday that ends the state's death penalty for future crimes, making Connecticut the 17th state to abolish capital punishment. The...

WASHINGTON, La. (AP) - Washington police have started to enforce the town's pit bull ordinance. The Daily World reports (http://bit.ly/JpwDNt ) 17 pit bulls were turned over to the St. Landry Parish Animal...

BEIJING (AP) - China's leaders are finding it's a lot tougher to create a world-beating electric car industry than they hoped. In 2009, they pledged billions of dollars for research and called for annual...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - John Edwards' first reaction when he learned his mistress may be pregnant was to downplay the chances he was the father, calling the woman a "crazy slut," his former close campaign...

BATON ROUGE (AP) - A proposal that would allow gay couples and other unmarried couples to adopt children together in Louisiana was defeated Tuesday by a House committee. Similar measures have been repeatedly...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Swiss scientists demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot by thought alone. On Tuesday, the team used a simple head cap to record the brain signals...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Bar has dismissed a complaint against Attorney General Jim Hood over a political ad tied to the killing of a Louisiana priest. Attorney Brian Alexander of Bay St....

LONDON (AP) - The number of measles deaths worldwide has apparently dropped by about three-quarters over a decade, according to a new study by the World Health Organization and others. Health officials...