Category Archives: World

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. - Fans of the rock band Phish have been thrown a curveball by the last-minute cancellation of a three-day music festival in central New York because of health concerns stemming from...

ROME - At least nine earthquakes rocked southern Italy in two hours Thursday night, prompting frightened residents to sleep outdoors for safety and a child to hurt himself when he leaped in fear from ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian prosecutors have filed a murder charge against celebrity plastic surgeon Denis Cesar Barros Furtado over the death of a patient who was given injections to enlarge her butto...

SANTA FE, N.M. - Forensic investigators said Thursday they identified the remains of a Georgia boy whose father is accused of abducting him and performing purification rituals on the child as he died ...

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican expressed “shame and sorrow” Thursday over a scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report about clergy who raped and molested children in six dioceses in that state, ...

Philadelphia’s Temple University is honouring a 45-year relationship sparked in a campus elevator. Sharyn Rubin and Eric Schlesinger briefly met on move-in day on Sept. 6, 1972, while she was mo...

NEW YORK - It’s easy to forget that “Respect” wasn’t originallyArethaFranklin’s song. But the Queen of Soul sang it like it was made for her, and for only her. She transf...

Reaction to the death of soul icon Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday: “Through her compositions and unmatched musicianship, Aretha helped define the American experience. In her voice, we could ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California district attorney has reversed course and says she will no longer consider plea deals to resolve the only criminal case filed in connection to a 2016 warehouse fi...

LOS ANGELES - Additional charges have been filed against a man accused of shooting at police before taking hostages during a deadly standoff at a Los Angeles grocery store last month. Defendant Gene E...