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WEST MONROE, La. (AP) -- Republican presidential nominating contests often reveal a rural-urban split in the party, but what sets this year's campaign apart is the emphasis Rick Santorum is placing on that divide and wearing his successes in small-town America as a badge of honor....

WEST MONROE, La. (AP) -- Republican presidential nominating contests often reveal a rural-urban split in the party, but what sets this year's campaign apart is the emphasis Rick Santorum is placing on that divide and wearing his successes in small-town America as a badge of honor....

WEST MONROE, La. (AP) -- Republican presidential nominating contests often reveal a rural-urban split in the party, but what sets this year's campaign apart is the emphasis Rick Santorum is placing on that divide and wearing his successes in small-town America as a badge of honor....

WEST MONROE, La. (AP) -- Republican presidential nominating contests often reveal a rural-urban split in the party, but what sets this year's campaign apart is the emphasis Rick Santorum is placing on that divide and wearing his successes in small-town America as a badge of honor....

The head of the commando unit that assaulted Mohamed Merah's flat in Toulouse says the gunman threatened to kill as many as he could.

One of the two candidates in a run-off vote for the Guinea-Bissau presidency pulls out, claiming the first round was unfair.

The second anniversary of President Barack Obama's signing into law the landmark and controversial health care reform measure brought, as expected, fierce attacks from Republicans.

GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney goes after President Obama's health care plan on its two-year anniversary.

The European Commission launches a probe into whether the sale of UK music firm EMI - home to the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Coldplay - breaks competition rules.

How Long Before we Become a nation of 50 Californias? 10-8-09

WEST MONROE, La. (AP) -- Republican presidential nominating contests often reveal a rural-urban split in the party, but what sets this year's campaign apart is the emphasis Rick Santorum is placing on that divide and wearing his successes in small-town America as a badge of honor....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Civil rights lawyer John Payton, who defended the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy before the Supreme Court and led the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has died. He was 65....

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- One autopsy report describes organs that had been removed years before. Another adds 20 centimeters (nearly 8 inches) to a short man, making no mention of bones disfigured by childhood polio. One family doubts whether an autopsy was performed at all....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Authorities have unsealed a 29-count felony indictment against two former executives of the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and four other people, including promoters of rave events....

The wealthy owner of a Florida polo club is convicted of a graduate's death in a drink-driving case that attracted national headlines.

Brazilian police say they are hunting a gang of blonde young women blamed for a string of kidnaps and robberies.

British cyclist David Millar fractures his right collarbone in a crash while competing in Belgium.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Television screens throughout the landlocked country of Mali went black Friday, as residents near the building housing the state broadcaster saw troops erecting heavy barricades fearing a possible countercoup a day after a military takeover....

MIAMI (AP) -- Wearing a hoodie. Listening to music and talking on his cellphone. Picking up Skittles for his soon-to-be stepbrother. Friends say that's how they would have imagined 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on a Sunday afternoon....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- Before the charges that police botched the investigation of the shooting of an unarmed black teen, there were complaints that police went easy on an officer's son who beat a black homeless man, or that police pull over black kids for wearing the wrong color hat because they suspect gang associations....