Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Smithsonian Institution is announcing plans for what curators believe is the first exhibition about the visual history of yoga. When it opens in October, "Yoga: The Art of Transformation" will feature temple structures, devotional icons and manuscripts as well as early...

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

MIAMI (AP) — The Haitian Compas Festival is marking its 15th anniversary in Miami. Ten bands and four DJs are on Saturday's line-up at Bayfront Park Amphitheatre in downtown Miami. The annual festival draws thousands of Haitian music fans. Over the years, organizers Rodney Noel and...

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

DOSWELL, Va. (AP) — A sure sign of summer: Kings Dominion is hiring by the hundreds. The Doswell amusement park says it is amid a "hiring blitz" of about 400 seasonal employees ahead of the park's opening on May 24. The hiring is expected to continue right up to Memorial Day weekend. Kings...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana driver's licenses would be used to comply with federal law requiring each state to create a national identification card for air travel, including domestic flights, under a proposal inserted Wednesday into a House bill by the Senate Transportation Committee....

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A conservation group filed a petition on Wednesday asking the National Park Service to place an area between Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks off-limits to wolf hunting. The petition by the National Parks Conservation Association called on the park service to...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

HONOLULU (AP) — A luxury Waikiki hotel has apologized to a Hawaii entertainer and his family after they claimed they were discriminated against. Na Hoku Hanohano-award winner Weldon Kekauoha says Halekulani Hotel security asked him and his family to verify they were guests. He says another...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

CLEARLAKE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities found the body on Wednesday of an autistic Northern California 9-year-old who went missing from her family's vacation home, ending an exhaustive, emotional search for the girl. A dive team found Mikaela Lynch in a muddy creek near the home in Clearlake,...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

ST. MICHAELS, Md. (AP) — In a story May 11 about the War of 1812 on the Chesapeake Bay, The Associated Press reported erroneously that two of the donors to an exhibit at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum were Leslie Israel and Lesley Shook. The donors' names are Lesley Israel and Langley...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

RICHMOND, Vt. (AP) — Gov. Peter Shumlin announced new efforts Wednesday to reduce the number of commuters making daily trips into parking-space starved Montpelier, including expanded outlying park-and-ride lots and discounted bus fares. "The cheapest parking space is the one we don't have to...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — State tourism officials say that more people visited Florida in the first three months of 2013 than any other quarter in the state's history. Visit Florida announced Wednesday that preliminary numbers show that 26 million visitors came to Florida in January,...