KODIAK, Alaska (AP) —A former Kodiak bank teller pleaded guilty to the theft of thousands of dollars from a bank where she worked.Lonetona Kalausa, 41, wept with her family as Judge Steve Cole sent
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Revelers hit the streets Tuesday to celebrate Mardi Gras, lured to the French Quarter and stately oak-lined avenues by the chance to snag beads and baubles from seemingly endles
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A military official says Muslim holy books that were burned in a pile of garbage at a U.S.
MOSCOW (AP) -- It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Showered in confetti and flanked by sequined samba queens, Rio's mayor symbolically relinquished control of the city to its rotund Carnival king on Friday to kick off the fiv
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- As workers cleaned up the rubble of the century's deadliest prison fire, a collective rage built among relatives who gathered at the morgue and said the official expla
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The name Jaya in Hindi means victorious.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Relieved congressional bargainers say they've reached agreement on compromise legislation extending payroll tax cuts and benefits for the long-term unemployed through 2012, edgin
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Five children around the world die every minute because of chronic malnutrition, according to a report released Wednesday that also said that almost half a billion children r
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Call it the alter-ego of super-sizing.Researchers infiltrated a fast-food Chinese restaurant and found up to a third of diners jumped at the offer of a half-size of the usual hea