A court sentenced one of Argentina’s most feared former military leaders to life in prison on Thursday for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four...

A Mexican police official says gunmen have killed a state prison director in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.

Peru’s Southern Copper Corp. on Thursday said second-quarter profit fell 24 percent from the year-ago period amid strikes and higher fuel and production costs.

A federal judge decided Thursday that a reporter who used confidential sources in a story on export-conspiracy indictments would not have to reveal those sources to...

Police say a boy stabbed and killed a 9-year-old girl in front of her classmates and teacher at an elementary school in Suriname.

A court sentenced one of Argentina’s most feared former military leaders to life in prison on Thursday for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four...

An Argentine court has sentenced a former army chief to life in prison for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four activists.

An 11-year old boy is in Brazil’s media spotlight after sinking his teeth into the neck of a dog that attacked him.

A Peruvian model and showgirl is facing a criminal investigation for posing naked sitting atop the country’s red-and-white flag.

A proposed new constitution grants Ecuador’s leftist President Rafael Correa broad powers including the ability to dissolve Congress and set monetary policy, and...

Ailing Fidel Castro said Wednesday that Cuba’s president was right to adopt a “dignified silence” over a Moscow newspaper report that Russia may...

Venezuela’s government denied on Wednesday that President Hugo Chavez invited Russia to open a military base in his country, disputing a report by Russia’s...

DNA tests for the first time have confirmed that a baby was stolen from her mother and adopted for profit in Guatemala.

In a July 16 story before the Senate vote on President Cristina Fernandez’s grain-export taxes, The Associated Press incorrectly reported the first name of a...

Argentina’s state news agency said the president’s top aide has resigned following the Senate’s rejection of a government-backed export tax hike.

Argentina’s agriculture secretary has resigned following the Senate’s rejection of a government-backed farm export tax increase.

Five South Koreans abducted in Mexico were set free unharmed on Tuesday, more than a week after they were kidnapped and held for ransom, officials said.

South Korean officials say five South Koreans who were kidnapped while driving in a Mexican border city have been set free.

A member of a domestic terrorist group has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for planning to attack military facilities in Los Angeles.

General Motors Corp. has joined with more than 30 utility companies across the U.S. to help work out electricity issues that will crop up when it rolls out new electric...