RENO, Nev. (AP) — The World War II-era plane that plummeted into an air-race crowd like a missile bore little resemblance to its original self. It was rebuilt for speed, if not for stability. The...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Since mid-April, federal fisheries agents on the 1,631-mile Gulf Coast have spent nearly all their time making sure shrimpers are using equipment designed to let sea turtles swim...

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan's official news agency says Sudan and its newest neighbor, South Sudan, have signed their first agreement since their split in July. The Sudanese news agency says the...

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — A church parishioner says he helped tackle a man who shot two Florida pastors and was able to wrestle the gun away from the suspect. Derrick Foster tells The Associated Press...

(AP) — Baton Rouge police have identified the teenager found shot to death Saturday inside a vacant house as 16-year-old Darrion LeBeuf. The Advocate reports that Sgt. Donald Stone, police spokesman,...

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) — Aruban authorities will stage a re-enactment of the alleged drowning of a Maryland woman to test her jailed companion's account of the incident, a prosecution official said...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The United States Postal Service says it may close a downtown New Orleans mail sorting center that employs 880 people. The center is one of more than 250 mail processing facilities...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two New Orleans police officers were sentenced Thursday to prison for their federal convictions stemming from the fatal beating of a 48-year-old handyman. U.S. District Judge Eldon...

BASTROP, Texas (AP) — Scorching temperatures, strong winds and dry vegetation are turning Texas wildfires into fast and furious dangers that hop from place to place within hours, even minutes, and...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man who bagged a deer and a bobcat in Kentucky without getting the proper permits has found himself banned from hunting anywhere in the world for two years. Rodney...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A 14-year-old girl went on a playground rampage with a hypodermic needle, stabbing 37 classmates, Puerto Rican officials said Thursday. "She would stab one, run, stab...

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Teachers in Washington state's third-largest school district voted overwhelmingly Thursday to remain on strike, in defiance of a judge's order that they return to work. Some...