SHREVEPORT— The state fair has ended and officials are calling it a success.
Organizers say they came close to breaking attendance records with more than 400,000 people attending in 2009.
Schools closed, residents of low-lying areas sought shelter and Florida's governor declared a state of emergency Monday as a late-season tropical storm churned toward the Gulf Coast.
The warning signs were all there, but the U.S. military treated Major Nidal Malik Hasan with kid gloves, taking no action that might have prevented the Army psychiatrist from allegedly killing 13 people in the Fort Hood massacre last week.
Three American hikers who have been detained in Iran after crossing into the country from Iraq have been charged with espionage, according to Iran's State News Agency.
President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela could end up going to war with Colombia as tensions between them rise, and he warned that if a conflict broke out "it could extend throughout the whole continent."
A New York City bicycle cabbie who mocked the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl and posted a prayer on the Web calling for the murder of Jews is now sending a 'Get Well Soon' message to the suspected Fort Hood gunman, the New York Post reported.
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