Cappuccino by the Trevi Fountain? Gelato on the Spanish Steps? Such small delights have run afoul of the guardians of Rome.City Hall has banned snacking near its famous monuments in the historical center. Violators face an $80 fine.Officials say they...

Federal rangeland managers said continuing to allow cattle to graze on the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is harming the rare plants, fish and wildlife the monument was created eight years ago to protect.The U.S. Bureau of Land Management was to...

Federal rangeland managers said continuing to allow cattle to graze on the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is harming the rare plants, fish and wildlife the monument was created eight years ago to protect.The U.S. Bureau of Land Management was to...

Susan Popp was a manager at Hewlett-Packard and her husband was a pilot at the Air Force Academy when they decided to become bison ranchers.Now the U.S. bison industry is trying to encourage more people _ be they veteran cattle ranchers or newcomers like...

President Bush has asked his defense and interior secretaries to look into designating Pearl Harbor and other historic World War II sites in the Pacific a national monument.A May 29 presidential memo to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Interior...

Turkmenistan plans to build a soaring $70 million monument in the capital that will outstrip anything built during the ostentatious rule of the late dictator Saparmurat Niyazov.The country’s state newspaper reported Monday that the 607-foot monument...

The U.S. Forest Service is looking for the “SpongeBob fanatics” who painted the cartoon character on the chimney of a historic building.The 10-foot tall painting of Nickelodeon character SpongeBob SquarePants is on a cabin in the Pike National Forest...

Haitians learn it in school, but it’s virtually unknown in the U.S.: In the Revolutionary War’s bloody siege of Savannah, hundreds of Haitian soldiers were there for the colonies.That contribution to American independence has been honored with a...