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River Road construction scheduled to be complete by football season

By The Associated Press
April 1, 2012

(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...

Renowned runner Micah True’s body found in N.M., recovery under way

By The Associated Press
April 1, 2012

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...

This Day in History: Joseph Stalin named general secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party

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,...

Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the Palm Sunday mass Sunday at St. Peter’s square at the Vatican.

Pope returns to Vatican from Cuba, celebrates Palm Sunday Mass

By The Associated Press
April 1, 2012

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...

This Day in History: ACLU steps in amid contentious ‘Howl’ obscenity trial, defends valuable poem

On April 3, 1955, The American Civil Liberties Union announced it would defend Allen Ginsberg's controversial poem "Howl." The poem was brought under fire for references to homosexuality, drugs and the...

Utah teens claim naked run inspired by ‘American Pie’ film

By The Associated Press
March 28, 2012

OGDEN, Utah (AP) - Four Utah teens armed with a BB gun told deputies they were inspired by a scene from an "American Pie" movie when they went running naked through an Ogden-area neighborhood. Authorities...

Researchers have discovered a piece of ancient bone that proves other pre-human life existed around the time of the famed skeleton Lucy

Discovery shows human relative walked at same time as ‘Lucy’

By The Associated Press
March 28, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lucy, it turns out, had company - another prehuman that also walked but spent more of its time in trees. Until now, there was no proof of another human relative living around the same...

Inmate riot at Honduran prison ignites fire that kills 14 people

By The Associated Press
March 28, 2012

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Honduran authorities say at least 14 people have died at a prison after armed inmates started a fire during a riot Thursday. Yair Mesa, the police commission of the rough northern...

Spanish workers wage strike over labor market reforms

By The Associated Press
March 28, 2012

MADRID (AP) - Spanish workers are forming boisterous picket lines outside wholesale markets, some TV stations have gne off the air and car factories are all but idled in the early stage of a general strike...

Lawyer says Afghan suspect had depression after incident in Iraq

By The Associated Press
March 28, 2012

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - An attorney for the U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians says his client suffered a traumatic incident in Iraq that triggered tremendous depression and anxiety. Lawyer...

North Korea reveals details of its ‘peaceful and scientific’ satellite

By The Associated Press
March 28, 2012

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea says it aims to estimate crop production and analyze natural resources when it launches a satellite on a long-range rocket next month. The United States and South...

Swedish workers’ lunch breaks include dancing

By Jona Kallgren
The Associated Press
March 28, 2012

STOCKHOLM (AP) - Some workers in Sweden have found a rather offbeat way to spend their lunch hour. Actually, on-beat is more like it. Dripping with sweat and awash in disco lights, they dance away to pulsating...