BATCHELOR, La. (AP) - Pointe Coupee Parish sheriff's detectives are trying to determine the identity of a woman whose nude body was found floating Sunday in the Red River close to its intersection with...
DALLAS (AP) - Tornadoes tore through the Dallas area Tuesday, peeling roofs off homes, tossing big-rig trucks into the air and leaving flattened tractor trailers strewn along highways and parking lots.
The...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans City Council members are finding it a difficult to balance the interests of residents and bar owners in the historic French Quarter.
A council committee on Tuesday reviewed...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti is seeing a jump in the number of cholera cases as the Caribbean nation heads into the annual rainy season, a United Nations humanitarian agency said Tuesday.
The U.N.'s...
SHREVEPORT (AP) - Shreveport police say officers shot a 29-year-old man who drove his truck into at least two parked cars, then allegedly tried to run over two mounted patrol officers.
Christopher Duggan...
AGADEZ, Niger (AP) - Rocket launchers and automatic gunfire crackled Sunday around Mali's fabled town of Timbuktu, known as an ancient seat of Islamic learning, for its 700-year-old mud mosque and, more...
Infamous American outlaw Jesse James was killed April 3, 1882, at the hand of Robert Ford.
James was famous for committing murders and robberies. He and his brother Frank served as Confederate guerillas...
(AP) - An area of River Road south of the LSU campus should be open in time for the first home football game Sept. 1 against North Texas.
The road has been closed for months while the Army Corps of Engineers...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Search crews are working to recover the body of renowned long-distance runner Micah True from a remote area of southern New Mexico.
Sunday's efforts in the rugged Gila Wilderness...
After establishing himself as a Bolshevik revolutionary, Joseph Stalin was named general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee. Stalin held the position from April 3,...
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI has kicked off the Catholic Church's Holy Week celebrations with Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square and good news from Cuba.
Cuba's communist government agreed...
