NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Justice Department says its recent inspection of a New Orleans jail found "alarming conditions" and uncovered persistently high rates of prisoner-on-prisoner violence and staff misconduct. In...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Justice Department says its recent inspection of a New Orleans jail found "alarming conditions" and uncovered persistently high rates of prisoner-on-prisoner violence and staff misconduct. In...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A deadly booby trap rigged along a popular Utah trail could have killed someone if they had tripped a ground wire set up to send a 20-pound, spiked boulder swinging into an unsuspecting...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A private U.S. company has delayed launching a cargo ship to the International Space Station. Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, was scheduled to launch the supply...

TOKYO (AP) - A teenager who lost his home in Japan's devastating tsunami now knows that one prized possession survived: a soccer ball that made it all the way to Alaska. Officials from the National Oceanic...

LONDON (AP) - A tongue-in-cheek protest fighting vulgarity targeted Abercrombie & Fitch, the American clothier that plans to open a shop on London's storied Savile Row. The shop would be at No. 3 Savile...

MONROE (AP) - Ouachita Parish deputies have charged a Monroe woman with harassing a man over the Internet. Emily Phillips, 31, was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center on Saturday on a cyberstalking...

LAKE CHARLES (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency says it will begin in August cleaning up a nearly three-mile portion of Bayou Verdine, one of the Calcasieu Estuary's dirtiest waterways. Activist...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran claimed Sunday that it had recovered data from an American spy drone that went down in Iran last year, including information that the aircraft was used to spy on Osama bin Laden...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - After months of consultations with Israeli security officials, Google has launched its popular Street View service in the country's three largest cities. The new Street View provides...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Police cordoned off a neighborhood block where a 6-year-old Arizona girl went missing from her home during the night, as authorities fanned out Sunday over a wide area looking for...

RENO, Nev. (AP) - Astronomers say a loud explosion heard across a large swath of Nevada and California on Sunday morning was likely caused by a meteor. The sound of the explosion around 8 a.m. prompted...