Cold March keeps shoppers' spending tepid
So much for new spring shorts and T-shirts. As cold weather lingered across most of the country, Americans shopped modestly in March. U.S.
Miami-Cuba seaborne shipping stops after big start
It was two weeks before Christmas, and Robinson Perez had bundles of gifts ready for his family in Cuba: A giant plastic Barbie doll and stuffed ...
FINALS WATCH: Humble Laettner, '76 Hoosiers
Around the Final Four and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the games
Beyonce, Jay-Z turn heads in Havana
Beyonce and Jay-Z caused a big stir in Havana as they marked their fifth wedding anniversary Thursday. R&B's power couple was mobbed by dozens of ...
Volunteers make prom special for Alaska students
For girls, proms are all about the dresses. Kayla Wolfe just never imagined what it would take to pick one. First, there was what felt like a million ...
Man convicted in deadly Ariz. fire enters plea
A man who was locked up more than 40 years for a 1970 Arizona hotel fire that killed 29 people walked out of prison a free man Tuesday, hours after ...
Easter egg hunt at Seattle zoo turns violent
One of usually peaceful springtime rituals of childhood — the Easter egg hunt — turned nasty at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. Blame the moms.
Correction: Obama story
In a story March 30 about President Barack Obama's weekly radio and Internet address, The Associated Press incorrectly identified the congressman who ...
Obamas welcome children to annual Easter Egg Roll
An amused President Barack Obama read a children's book to a gathering of boys and girls at the White House, then peppered them with questions: Had ...
NYC's Coney Island hopes for rebound after Sandy
At the beginning of each tourist season, the entrepreneurs who pitch the thrill rides, hot dogs, sideshows and souvenirs at gritty Coney Island gather ...
Pope makes Easter pleas for world peace
Pope Francis marked Christianity's most joyous day with a passionate plea for world peace, celebrating his first Easter Sunday as pontiff in the ...
AP PHOTOS: Easter celebrations around the world
On Easter Sunday, the most holy day of the Christian calendar, believers attended religious services — whether among the packed crowds before a new ...
Christians in Holy Land, Mideast celebrate Easter
Catholics and Protestants flocked to churches to celebrate Easter on Sunday in the Holy Land and across the broader Middle East, praying, singing and ...
Iraqi Catholics celebrate Easter
Iraq's Catholic Christians flocked to churches to celebrate Easter Sunday, praying, singing and rejoicing in the resurrection of Christ behind high ...
Pope presides over trimmed Easter Vigil service
Pope Francis celebrated a trimmed back Easter Vigil service Saturday after having reached out to Muslims and women during a Holy Week in which he ...
Pope refers to "Muslim brothers" on Good Friday
Pope Francis reached out in friendship to "so many Muslim brothers and sisters" during a Good Friday procession dedicated to the suffering of ...
BracketRacket: A quiz, a thought and Peeps
Welcome to BracketRacket, your one-stop shopping place for all things NCAA. For our first Sweet 16 edition, we've got a geography quiz by Shockers and ...
BracketRacket: A bookstore, a reunion and a mamba
Welcome back to BracketRacket, the one-stop shopping place for all your NCAA needs. Today's edition includes the mad rush at Florida Gulf Coast's ...
Ohio prosecutor drops charge against Pa. groundhog
Phil is off the hook. A winter-weary Ohio prosecutor who filed a tongue-in-cheek criminal indictment against the famous Pennsylvania groundhog over ...
Gypsies flock to bridal fair as parents negotiate
Donka Hristova lets her mother pull her skintight mini-dress a half-inch down her leg. Checking her makeup one last time, she joins her two younger ...
Pa. groundhog's handler taking blame for forecast
An Ohio prosecutor who light-heartedly filed a criminal indictment against the famous Pennsylvania groundhog who fraudulently "predicted" an early ...
Belgium's chocolate stamps offer lick with a kick
Feel like having chocolate at Easter in Belgium? Well, send a letter and really lick that chocolate-flavored postal stamp. The Belgian post office ...
Israelis get kosher cigarettes for Passover
Observant Jews in Israel craving a smoke during the week-long Passover holiday that starts at sundown Monday can now enjoy a rabbi-approved puff.
Groundhog Phil a furry felon over false forecast
A shadow of a different kind is hanging over Punxsutawney Phil. Authorities in still-frigid Ohio have issued an "indictment" against the famed ...
First lady bears Easter gifts to military families
Michelle Obama marked the first day of spring with an early Easter celebration as she handed out holiday treats to military families and children.
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