NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court is retiring. Catherine "Kitty" Kimball said Wednesday that she will leave the court in January after serving for 20 years. In a statement...

(AP) - At a Baton Rouge Catholic school with New Orleans' archbishop looking on, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Wednesday signed sweeping legislation overhauling public education in the state while allowing...

VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican and a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics appear to be nearing an agreement that could bring the group back into Rome's fold and end a quarter-century of schism. The...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - When a 17-year-old girl said to have the mental capacity of a 5-year-old was reported missing four weeks ago in the sprawling South African township of Soweto, police distributed her...

CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) - The space shuttle Discovery went out in high-flying style. After three spectacular spins above the nation's capital, the world's most traveled spaceship completed its final flight...

NEW YORK (AP) - The admitted mastermind of a foiled plot to bomb New York City subways testified Tuesday that he wanted to fight jihad in Afghanistan after coming to believe that the U.S. government was...

OMAHA, Neb. - Warren Buffett told his company's shareholders in an open letter Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer. The 81-year-old billionaire investor and CEO of Berkshire...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana won't assign any delegates to a Tennessee lawyer who finished a distant second to President Barack Obama in the state's Democratic primary because the party said he didn't...

ISLAMABAD (AP) - Osama bin Laden's three widows and their nine children were scheduled to be deported to Saudi Arabia overnight, almost a year after U.S. Navy SEALs killed the al-Qaida chief at a compound...

(AP) - Rapper Mystikal will be going back behind bars for three months because of a probation violation. Mystikal, whose real name is Michael Tyler, was released from a Louisiana prison in 2010 after serving...

CAIRO (AP) - Fans charged in Egypt's deadliest soccer riot declared their innocence in the first trial session Tuesday, directing their anger toward police charged with collaborating in the killing of...

DUBLIN (AP) - A Delta Air Lines flight bound for the United States made an emergency landing Monday in Dublin because a passenger left a cell phone plugged into a socket in one of the aircraft's restrooms,...