Category Archives: World
Alleged California serial killer to keep public defender
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A suspected California serial killer cannot afford a private attorney, a judge ruled Thursday, keeping in place a public defender in a case expected to cost taxpayers $20 million....
Dec 06, 2018
Pearl Harbor re-burials across the US give families closure
HONOLULU - More than 75 years after nearly 2,400 members of the U.S. military were killed in the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, some who died on Dec. 7, 1941, are finally being laid to rest in cemet...
Dec 06, 2018
Sean Penn working on documentary on Saudi writer's death
ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish official says Sean Penn is in Turkey working on a documentary about the slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Yasin Aktay, an adviser to ...
Dec 06, 2018
Honduran woman in migrant caravan gives birth in US
SAN DIEGO - A Honduran woman affiliated with a caravan of Central American migrants gave birth on U.S. soil shortly after entering the country illegally amid growing frustration about a bottleneck to ...
Dec 06, 2018
Caretaker of neglected, bone-strewn cemetery is arrested
A fuller picture of a cemetery in ghastly disarray emerged Thursday as the longtime caretaker of a graveyard in Connecticut’s largest city was arrested and officials described in new detail shoc...
Dec 06, 2018
Quackarazzi: Mandarin duck holds NYC in its spell
NEW YORK - It took just days for the brightly colored Mandarin duck that appeared suddenly in a Central Park pond to turn both New Yorkers and visitors into a new gaggle: the quackarazzi. A horde of p...
Dec 06, 2018
Thousands salute Bush funeral train 4141 on final Texas ride
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Thousands waved and cheered along the route as funeral train No. 4141 - for the 41st president - carried George H.W. Bush’s remains to their final resting place on Thurs...
Dec 06, 2018
State TV says suicide car bombing kills 2 in southeast Iran
TEHRAN, Iran - A suicide car bomber struck a police headquarters in the Iranian port city of Chabahar on Thursday, killing at least two policemen and wounding 42 people, state TV reported. A little-kn...
Dec 06, 2018
Amazon workers treated after bear repellent releases fumes
ROBBINSVILLE, N.J. - An automated machine punctured a can of bear repellent at an Amazon warehouse in New Jersey on Wednesday, releasing fumes that sickened workers and sent two dozen to hospitals, of...
Dec 05, 2018
Ahoy! Galveston, Royal Caribbean plan 3rd cruise terminal
GALVESTON, Texas - The Port of Galveston and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. plan to develop an $85 million terminal - the third for the cruise-popular city on the Gulf of Mexico. Port Director Rodger Re...
Dec 05, 2018