Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the man who would become Pope Francis said Mass. You can even visit the stand where he bought his newspapers every weekend...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

ST. LOUIS (AP) — More than eight decades since bootlegging gangster Charlie Birger became Illinois' last person publicly hanged, the southern Illinois city that has clung to his legend finally has the case's biggest and most-elusive relic: the gallows from which he swung for his role in the...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story May 14 about a Senate immigration bill, The Associated Press erroneously reported that two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers entered the U.S. on student visas. In fact only one of them did. A corrected version of the story is below: Senators tackle student visas...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — The 2013 cruise season began with a nightmare: A Carnival ship adrift with no power. But in the last month or so, several cruise companies — including Carnival — have announced major overhauls to old ships and exciting innovations on new ships, from engineering upgrades to...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Commonwealth University's planned museum of contemporary art has its first director. Lisa Freiman's appointment was announced Wednesday. She will come to Richmond from the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where she is the senior curator and chair of the contemporary...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Environmental groups are suing the National Park Service over a series of off-road vehicle trails in the Big Cypress National Preserve in southwest Florida. The Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club and other groups filed a lawsuit against the park service...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A long-delayed megamall project at the Meadowlands sports complex could take another step forward this week. The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority announced Wednesday that a vote on the American Dream project could take place at a special board meeting Friday. The...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

KEENE, N.H. (AP) — A fourth-grade class that substituted a "Magic Segway" for the "Magic School Bus" took the top prize Wednesday in a video contest sponsored by the state Division of Travel and Tourism. Debbie Sawyer's class at Wheelock Elementary School was awarded the grand prize Wednesday...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein's plan for a hotel-condo tower is moving forward after a London-based investment firm has agreed to provide a construction loan of $660 million. Silverstein Properties Inc. announced the agreement Wednesday with Children's...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A preliminary report into last month's Lion Air plane crash off the resort island of Bali urges the budget carrier to immediately address safety concerns by providing more training for pilots during critical landing times. The National Transportation Safety...