The world’s first legal ivory auctions in nearly a decade ended Thursday with four African nations selling more than 100 tons of tusks to Chinese and Japanese traders for nearly $15 million. The money raised during the controversial week of sales will be used for elephant conservation. The auctions took …

As diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the world’s most common diseases, its financial cost is mounting, too, to well over $200 billion a year in the U.S. alone. A new study, released Tuesday exclusively to The Associated Press, puts the total at $218 billion last year — the first …

FORT MYERS, Fla. – A Fort Myers woman who recently turned 103 says she gets happier every year. Gladys Malarkey, born in a small Pennsylvania mining town in 1905, celebrated her birthday Sunday with family and friends. She’s outlived her husband, son and four siblings. But she says she finds …

WASHINGTON – Democratic leaders in Congress asked the Bush administration on Saturday to provide more aid to the struggling auto industry, which is bleeding cash and jobs as sales have dropped to their lowest level in a quarter-century. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in …

HERODIUM, West Bank – Israeli archaeologists excavating what they believe is the tomb of biblical King Herod said Wednesday they have unearthed lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East and signs of a regal two-story mausoleum, bolstering their conviction that the Jewish monarch was …

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ORLANDO, Fla. – Authorities say a train smashed into a sedan that drove into its path in central Florida, launching the car into the air and killing three. Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Miller said two men and one woman in the car died Friday when the Amtrak train …

NEW YORK – A jury has awarded nearly $11 million to a woman who became partially paralyzed after waiting two hours for a hospital brain scan. Jurors found New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens was negligent in caring for Candida Diego after she fractured her skull in a fall …

LOS ANGELES – An undercover investigation that put federal agents inside the notorious Mongols motorcycle gang ended Tuesday with arrests of dozens of members on warrants ranging from drug sales to murder and a move by the government to seize the group’s name. Law enforcement agents said the operation could …

ATLANTA – A former Atlanta police officer who was involved in a botched raid that ended in the shooting death of a 92-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges. Arthur Tesler entered the plea Thursday. He faces a sentence of more than 10 years in prison and a …