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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Rev. William Hines, Shreveport’s first black police officer, died Wednesday. He was 87.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – A Florida prosecutor apologized Thursday for social media posts that included him referring to drug addicts as “crack hoes” and suggesting …

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Members of a church in Haiti said on Saturday that an American missionary slain in his home last week was well liked …

“Congratulations, it’s a girl,” are welcome words in only a few societies. Even in this day and age, the United Nations reports a disproportionate number …

Glenn Michael Witcher, a name known in the Miami and Michigan theater world, died May 3, after an illness. He was 60.

MIAMI — Nwadiuto Esiobu found it difficult to hold back her tears. She and other women were attending a meeting at Palm Beach State College …

There are very good reasons why the abduction of some 300 teenage girls from their school in a remote area of Nigeria has captured international …

Editor’s note: The following is the text of an address given Saturday by the first lady Michelle Obama. The address is usually given by the …

WASHINGTON — The health care law has opened up an unusual opportunity for some mothers-to-be to save on medical bills for childbirth.

NEW YORK — Kristine McCormick has spent the years after the sudden death of her newborn trying to forget Mother’s Day exists. Cora was five …