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HUGO, Okla. - An Oklahoma sheriff says two inmates briefly escaped to visit their girlfriends and smoke marijuana and then walked back to the jail. Choctaw County Sheriff Terry Park tells The Oklahoma...

PARIS - UNESCO’s executive board on Friday chose former French Culture Minister Audrey Azoulay to be the U.N. cultural agency’s next leader over a Qatari candidate in an unusually heated r...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Inmates at a North Carolina prison plotted an escape bid knowing they would have to hurt some prison employees, their disturbance ultimately leaving two workers dead and a dozen other ...

A Kentucky motel’s pet-friendly policy was put to the test earlier this month when an Ontario woman checked her horse into a room on her way to a competition. Lindsey Partridge, of Kawartha Lake...

MONROVIA, Liberia - Former international soccer star George Weah maintained an early lead in Liberia’s election Friday as the West African nation released a second round of provisional results o...

WASHINGTON - Global finance officials on Friday defended their efforts to promote free trade and closer international links against a rising ride of populism around the world and criticism from a Trum...

Singer Joe Jonas is engaged to “Game of Thrones” star Sophie Turner. Turner and Jonas shared the same photo on Instagram on Sunday of her hand sporting a diamond ring and resting on top of...

LISBON, Portugal - Late season wildfires that broke out over the weekend in Portugal have killed at least 35 people, including a 1-month-old infant, authorities said Monday, making 2017 by far the dea...

VALLETTA, Malta - A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed the island nation’s links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers was killed Monday when a bomb exploded in her c...

NEW ORLEANS - A New Orleans police officer was fatally shot Friday during a struggle after he and his patrol team left their cars to investigate something suspicious shortly after midnight. Other offi...