By Jay Reeves And Rachel Zoll THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ In Alabama, a Presbyterian church wanted to be able to hire its own police […]

By David McFadden THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti _ Several government buildings have been set ablaze in scattered sections of Haiti and one demonstrator was killed […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico _ Jamaican authorities said they were searching Sunday for four male prisoners who escaped from a Spanish Town jail. Police said a […]

ATLANTA _ Ozell Sutton, a longtime civil rights activist who was associated with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 90. His daughter, […]

By Cain Burdeau THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New Orleans’ leaders on Thursday made a sweeping move to break with the city’s Confederate past when the City Council […]

By Jeffrey Collins THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBIA, S.C. _ A group of black parents and civil rights activists presented a petition Thursday calling for officials to […]

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso _ Burkina Faso’s high court has released final election results, declaring Roch Marc Christian Kabore the president of the West African nation. constitutional […]

By Hippolyte Marboua THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGUI, Central African Republic _ A Muslim rebel leader in Central African Republic proclaimed an autonomous state in the country’s […]

NEW YORK _ A Dominican Republic diplomat has asked a judge to toss out charges against him in a United Nations bribery scandal, saying he’s entitled […]

By David McFadden THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti _ A late December presidential runoff in Haiti is expected to be held as scheduled regardless of the […]

By Duggie Joseph THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent _ The governing party in the tiny eastern Caribbean islands of St. Vincent and the Grenadines won […]

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada _ Police in the small Caribbean island of Grenada say they have found a vehicle that may have been involved in the disappearance […]