Category Archives: World
Concert stampede in Italy leaves 6 dead, over 50 hurt
CORINALDO, Italy - Teenagers panicked before a rap concert at a jammed Italian disco, setting off a stampede that killed five of them and a mother who had brought her daughter to the event, authoritie...
Dec 07, 2018
1 of New Mexico's last drive-in theatres is set to close
CARLSBAD, N.M. - One of New Mexico’s last drive-in theatres is set to close. The Carlsbad Current-Argus reports the owner of the Fiesta Drive-In Theater in Carlsbad, New Mexico, announced this w...
Dec 07, 2018
Items belonging to Sinatra make $9M hit at Sotheby's auction
NEW YORK - The private treasures of Frank Sinatra and his wife, Barbara, were a multimillion-dollar hit at auction. Sotheby’s reported Friday that the couple’s entertainment memorabilia, a...
Dec 07, 2018
Ex-Miss Kentucky charged with sending nude photos to student
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A former Miss Kentucky who is a teacher in West Virginia has been charged with sending nude pictures to a 15-year-old former student. News outlets report that 28-year-old Ramsey Be...
Dec 07, 2018
Man who drove into crowd convicted of first-degree murder
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A man who drove his car into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Virginia was convicted Friday of first-degree murder, a verdict that local civil rights activ...
Dec 07, 2018
Uranus Examiner ends publication, blaming judgmental people
URANUS, Mo. - The Uranus Examiner, a small Missouri newspaper whose name inspired chuckles and groans when it launched a few months ago, is closing. The paper’s editors announced the end of publ...
Dec 07, 2018
Movie has cattle call for real cows, dairy need not apply
CINCINNATI - A film promotion organization in Cincinnati is holding a cattle call for actual cattle. The non-profit Film Cincinnati put out a vague call for a major motion picture Friday, saying it ne...
Dec 07, 2018
In darkness and chaos, deputy killed by friendly fire
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - As terrified people scrambled out of broken windows, screaming and bleeding and fleeing a mass shooting inside a California bar, Sgt. Ron Helus and a highway patrolman decided ...
Dec 07, 2018
Heavy rain, flooding, tornadoes forecast for Houston region
Houston authorities have activated their emergency operations centre and the National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch as a storm system could bring up to 10 inches (25 centimetres) of r...
Dec 07, 2018
Russian chemistry teacher accused of setting up a drug lab
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Prosecutors in St. Petersburg have charged two Russian high school teachers of producing and selling drugs, a case that Russian media have compared to the “Breaking Bad&...
Dec 07, 2018