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Romney seeks extended deadline for overseas voters
Working to broaden his popularity among military veterans, Republican Mitt Romney's campaign has sent letters to election officials in Wisconsin, ...
Central figure in Miss. integration defies labels
James Meredith is a civil-rights icon who hates the term "civil rights." It's as if civil rights were somehow set apart from — well, rights. "When it ...
No. 1 Alabama eases past Ole Miss, 33-14
No. 1 Alabama actually trailed for a change, a predicament that lasted a grand total of 15 seconds. Amari Cooper caught two touchdown passes from AJ ...
In the digital age, a rare fight for print readers
When The Times-Picayune decided to print three days a week, a nearby publication saw a chance to expand in the newspaper's backyard and fill a void ...
Investigator: Woman died from buttocks implant
A Georgia woman had little chance of surviving an illegal cosmetic procedure in Mississippi because the silicone-like substance that was injected in ...
AP IMPACT: Tragedy meant big money for NY minister
Before the Sept. 11 attacks, the Rev. Carl Keyes was a little-known pastor of a small New York City congregation searching for members and money.
West Virginia's Smith, S Carolina's Shaw on target
Geno Smith looked like a Heisman Trophy hopeful and Connor Shaw showed no signs of an injured shoulder. Smith threw for 338 yards to help No. 8 West ...
Alabama, LSU take over Top 25 _ again
Breaking down the AP college football poll after Week 2 of the regular season. ____ MAKING A STATEMENT Here we go again. Alabama and LSU are Nos.
Alabama, Florida State post huge shutouts
Without Tyler Wilson, Arkansas never had a chance against Alabama. Florida State dispatched Wake Forest just as easily. The top-ranked Crimson Tide ...
Judge: US civil trials at risk without budget deal
Federal civil jury trials in the United States probably would grind to a halt if Congress fails to reach a budget deal and $600 billion in automatic ...
Lack of Southerners on US presidential tickets
For decades, Southerners put a firm imprint on national politics from both sides of the aisle, holding the White House for 25 of the past 50 years and ...
Hundreds pay respects to Robin Roberts' mother
Hundreds of people waited in line for an hour or more to pay their respects to the late Lucimarian Roberts, a leader on Mississippi's Gulf Coast for ...
Days after Isaac, flooding and outages remain
Much of a finger-shaped parish southeast of New Orleans was still covered with floodwater Sunday and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still ...
Mother of GMA co-host Robin Roberts dies
Lucimarian Roberts, the mother of "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts, has died a day after the anchor announced she was taking a medical ...
Misery in La. as Isaac flooding leaves power out
Isaac sloshed north into the central U.S. on Friday after flooding stretches of Louisiana and Mississippi and knocking out power, leaving entire ...
Weakening Isaac hovers over water-logged Louisiana
Isaac hovered over Louisiana for a third day Thursday, shedding more than a foot of additional rain that forced authorities to hurriedly evacuate ...
Rescues continue as Isaac floods parts of La.
Isaac dropped unrelenting rain Thursday, flooding areas north and south of New Orleans, and officials had to scramble to evacuate and rescue people ...
La. orders evacuation after Miss. dam threatened
Louisiana officials have ordered evacuation of low-lying, sparsely-populated areas along the Tangipahoa River because an Isaac-hammered dam at a state ...
Isaac steers clear of direct blow on New Orleans
Isaac's whistling winds lashed this city and the storm dumped nearly a foot of rain on its desolate streets, but the system of levee pumps, walls and ...
Officials may breach levee as Isaac storms inland
Newly downgraded Tropical Storm Isaac plodded its way across Louisiana on Wednesday, inundating parts of a mostly rural area southeast of New Orleans, ...
Isaac nears New Orleans, floods rural La. levee
Hurricane Isaac pushed water over a rural levee to flood some homes, knocked out power and immersed beach-front roads in Louisiana and Mississippi ...
Isaac in New Orleans for Katrina's 7th anniversary
Hurricane Isaac swallowed parts of the swamps south of New Orleans early Wednesday on its way toward the newly fortified city, as people across the ...
Hurricane Isaac makes landfall in La.
Hurricane Isaac raked the Louisiana coast and headed for a shuttered New Orleans late Tuesday, with brutal timing that made up for much of what it ...
Gulf Coast braces for Hurricane Isaac's wrath
The Gulf Coast braced for the landfall of Hurricane Isaac late Tuesday, hunkering down behind boarded-up windows with stockpiles of food and water as ...