JUNCTION CITY — A historical agreement between the Junction City and Claiborne Parish, La., school districts was continued during a special called meeting Tuesday evening. However, officials from both sides admit that the continuance could be just a one-year buffer before the contract is sever...

 Emergency personnel move the driver of a tractor-trailer rig, right, onto a gurney. His truck collided with a Lincoln LS, left, in the 5300 block of U.S. 167 north around noon on Wednesday. The driver of the Lincoln was traveling south when it crossed the double-yellow line and struck the nort...

With a crowd of more than 70 people at the Union County Animal Protection Society board meeting Tuesday in support of recently terminated employees Tanja Jackson, Cody Casillas and Jacob Purinton, general membership spokesperson Sandra Maguire asked the board a series of questions about the shelter...

It could have been the number of advanced placement courses offered at the school or possibly the number of students enrolled in AP courses. Or maybe it was the new, state-of-the-art high school – endowed chairs or the Promise scholarship. Or perhaps it was Shelley Forbess, AP physics instruct...

CHICAGO (AP) — Hours after police found Estrella Carrera stabbed to death in her bathtub, still clad in the silver sequined cocktail dress she wore to celebrate her wedding to her on-and-off boyfriend, her family received a haunting phone call from the groom’s family.Arnoldo Jimenez had...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Within days of a drug-related slaying in suburban Cleveland, six men were indicted on charges that carried the possibility of a death sentence. Six months later, all had been allowed to plead to lesser charges, including four who received probation and never went to priso...

Without fanfare, the nation’s nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away.Nuclear watchdogs voiced surprise and dism...

NEW YORK (AP) — Using only her thoughts, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15 years directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips, researchers report in the latest advance in harnessing brain waves to help disabled people.In the past year, similar stories have...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — John Edwards’ team wrapped up their defense Wednesday without calling the ex-presidential candidate, his mistress or daughter to testify, a move experts say was intended to shift focus from a political sex scandal to the nitty-gritty of campaign finance law.&ldquo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Divisive Republican primaries, an out-of-nowhere GOP retirement in Maine and an unexpectedly competitive race in North Dakota add up to an unpredictable battle for control of the Senate this fall, confounding early forecasts that an era of Democratic rule was inevitably comin...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent group favoring Republican Mitt Romney is launching a $25 million, monthlong advertising campaign against President Barack Obama in 10 states, further escalating an expensive TV ad war in presidential battleground states less than six months before Election Day....

BEIRUT (AP) — In his first interview since December, Syrian President Bashar Assad insisted Tuesday his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries who want to overthrow him, not innocent Syrians aspiring for democracy in a yearlong uprising.The interview with Russian TV showed Assad i...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — He’s no longer the swaggering general who held Sarajevo “in the palm of his hand” during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war. Yet as his long-awaited genocide trial began Wednesday, Ratko Mladic still managed to reopen old wounds with the flick of his han...