OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) - A historic fishing pier in Maryland that was ravaged by Hurricane Sandy will soon be rebuilt.

Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan tells The Daily Times of Salisbury (http://bit.ly/UEq8ur) the pier has "tremendous importance to the town and the visitors."

The pier was badly damaged during the storm two weeks ago. A large section was

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian lawmaker says the country's parliament has postponed the implementation of a second round of subsidy cuts until 2013 over fears of stoking already rampant inflation.

The head of the parliamentary budgetary and planning committee Gholam Reza Mesbahi Moghaddam told the semiofficial Mehr news agency the second phase of

There will be an empty seat at the negotiating table when Colombians plunge into talks Thursday on ending a conflict that has bled the South American nation for a half century.

It's reserved for a 62-year-old economist, a senator's son and boyhood friend to a future president who is penned up at

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - As investigators try to determine what caused a deadly explosion that ravaged an Indianapolis subdivision, an expert says people shouldn't be alarmed by a homeowner's suggestion that his faulty furnace could be to blame.

Investigators have been looking at