NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Bourbon Street bar manager hauled into court over the volume of music from the club he runs has been found not guilty by a New Orleans city judge. Police said amplified music...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state opened a public auction online Thursday of its state-run liquor stores, beginning the process of privatizing a booze industry the state has tightly controlled...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio lawmaker is proposing that owners of exotic animals be subjected to background checks and required to fence their property — measures supporters say might have...

PARIS (AP) — The Josephine beauty parlor in northern Paris is celebrating its first birthday Thursday and the success of a simple idea: When life is ugly, make women feel beautiful. Some 1,200 disadvantaged...

KENNER, La. (AP) — They came in T-shirts and jeans to bid on crowns, scepters and capes of Mardi Gras kings and queens, or the jewels and coins tossed to their eager subjects. The glitzy pageantry...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan has charged Osama bin Laden's three widows with illegally entering and living in the country, the interior minister said Thursday. The three women have been in...

LONDON (AP) — Britain's press regulator, much criticized amid a scandal over tabloid phone hacking, has confirmed it is to be abolished and replaced with a new body. The Press Complaints Commission...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man killed by a methamphetamine lab fire at an Ohio nursing home was burned over 90 percent of his body, and his death was accidental, a medical examiner said Wednesday. The...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Massachusetts sculptor's image of a lone figure with an upstretched arm has been approved as the piece of public art that will be reproduced and placed at 17 points around the...

MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities in Moscow on Wednesday gave permission for another major protest rally this weekend, but one of the organizers warned that the turnout may be smaller than the huge throngs...

LONDON (AP) — Two former Scotland Yard chiefs had their children do internships at Rupert Murdoch's newspaper company, one of them testified Wednesday, revealing yet another link between senior members...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia's governor has signed into law a bill requiring women to undergo abdominal ultrasound exams before having abortions, weeks after lawmakers dropped contentious language...