JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers are trying to determine how $700 million in oil spill damage payments should be divided, and who should spend the money. Legislators were working
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana has ended its economic development deal with Bell Helicopter and is trying to recover millions of dollars in subsidies, saying the company failed to create
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The head of one of the U.S.’s largest environmental nonprofits says he was stunned Wednesday to see thousands of dead fish and devastation to other
Coast Guard searching for survivors NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard is searching the big brackish lake that borders New Orleans for the owner of an overturned boat. A
CHICAGO (AP) — Democrats aren’t ready to embrace the I-word. A day after separate legal hammers dropped nearly simultaneously on two former members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle, Democrats
HONOLULU (AP) — Hurricane Lane soaked Hawaii’s Big Island on Thursday, dumping 12 inches of rain in as many hours as residents stocked up on supplies and tried to protect
BEIJING (AP) — The United States and China went ahead with tariff hikes on billions of dollars of each other’s automobiles, factory machinery and other goods Thursday in an escalation
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s government lashed out at President Donald Trump on Thursday after he tweeted that his administration would be looking into farm seizures and the “large scale
BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) — For years, the young man from Mexico presented himself as a legal U.S. resident and reliable worker at a family dairy farm in small town Iowa,
As the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct began snaring politicians, state legislatures across the country vowed to re-examine their policies to prevent harassment and beef up investigations into complaints of
