By Jim Salter THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FERGUSON, Mo. _ Small-community municipal elections don’t typically merit much attention, but Tuesday’s City Council race in Ferguson, Missouri, has […]

By Kim Chandler THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ A man who spent nearly 30 years on Alabama’s death row walked free two days after prosecutors […]

By Jeff Amy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NATCHEZ, Miss. _ All around Greg Iles is his handiwork _ a play where the bestselling novelist chips away at […]

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic _ Authorities in the Dominican Republic have arrested a local government official accused of running a ring they say imported marijuana from […]

By Kimberly Hefling And Jesse J. Holland THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLLEGE PARK, Md. _ Racist incidents are popping up at U.S. colleges and universities, even though […]

By Christopher Torchia THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE TOWN, South Africa _ It began with a container of excrement. On March 9, a South African student protester […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico _ U.S. authorities have detained 10 migrants from Cuba and the Dominican Republic, including a 3-year-old boy, who were found on an […]

NASSAU, Bahamas _ A judge in the Bahamas has denied bail to a woman accused of fatally stabbing her husband, a well-known podiatrist from Australia. An […]

By David McFadden THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KINGSTON, Jamaica _ Heavily armed Jamaican soldiers and police took positions around the U.S. Embassy on Wednesday after a man […]

By Edith M. Lederer THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The number of fighters leaving home to join al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in Iraq, Syria and other […]

By Eric Tucker And Sean Carlin THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON _ Sen. Bob Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants who rose to become one of the […]

By Michelle Faul THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ABUJA, Nigeria _ Election officials worked into the night Monday counting the results from Nigeria’s tight presidential vote, while the […]