Category Archives: World
Theft of mammoth proportions: Agency seeks stolen tusk
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A federal agency wants its wooly mammoth tusk back. The Bureau of Land Management in Alaska on Tuesday asked the public’s help in recovering an approximately 10,000-year-old ...
Jun 19, 2018
Metal singer jailed in wife's murder plot back with band
LOS ANGELES - A heavy metal singer convicted in a murder-for-hire plot to kill his estranged wife has reunited with his Grammy-nominated band and performed with the group in San Diego over the weekend...
Jun 19, 2018
Birthplace of singer, activist Nina Simone to be preserved
TRYON, N.C. - The dilapidated wooden cottage in North Carolina that was the birthplace of singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone now has the protection of the National Trust for Historic Preserv...
Jun 19, 2018
The list of celebrities upset by US border policy grows
NEW YORK - Country music icon Willie Nelson has extended an offer to meet President Donald Trump at one of the detention centres at the U.S.-Mexico border to better understand what’s happening, ...
Jun 19, 2018
US housing starts jumped 5 pct. in May off Midwest building
WASHINGTON - A surge of construction in the Midwest drove U.S. housing starts up 5 per cent in May from the prior month. The Commerce Department said Wednesday that housing starts rose to a seasonally...
Jun 19, 2018
Bucks' Sterling Brown sues Milwaukee over stun-gun arrest
Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown sued the city of Milwaukee and its police department Tuesday, saying officers’ use of a stun gun during his arrest for a parking violation constitutes excess...
Jun 19, 2018
Mobile carriers cut off flow of location data to brokers
Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile have pledged to stop providing information on U.S. phone owners’ locations to data brokers, stepping back from a business practice that has drawn criticism...
Jun 19, 2018
White House Mideast team holds talks with Jordanian king
AMMAN, Jordan - President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, kicked off a swing through the Middle East on Tuesday, meeting with Jordan’s king as part of a broade...
Jun 19, 2018
Bruce Springsteen performs at benefit at bowling alley
ASBURY PARK, N.J. - Bruce Springsteen helped rock a refurbished 1960s bowling alley-turned music venue near the Asbury Park boardwalk. Actor Hugh Jackman was in the house at the Asbury Lanes on Monday...
Jun 19, 2018
Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gives birth to 2nd child
LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II’s granddaughter Zara Tindall has given birth to a baby girl. Buckingham Palace said Tuesday the baby is the second child of Zara and Mike Tindall, a former English ru...
Jun 19, 2018