Category Archives: World
City looks for answers after zombie alert sent to residents
LAKE WORTH, Fla. - Officials say they still don’t know who sent a “zombie alert” to residents of a Florida city following a power outage. Lake Worth spokesman Ben Kerr says an indepe...
May 23, 2018
Greatest female Everest climber wants to inspire other women
KATHMANDU, Nepal - The most successful female Everest climber said after finishing her ninth ascent of the world’s highest mountain that she wants to inspire all women so they too can achieve th...
May 22, 2018
Philip Roth, fearless and celebrated author, dies at 85
NEW YORK - Philip Roth, the prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of “Portnoy’s Complaint” to the elegiac lyricism...
May 22, 2018
Philip Roth, fearless and celebrated author, dies at 85
NEW YORK - Philip Roth, the prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of “Portnoy’s Complaint” to the elegiac lyricism...
May 22, 2018
Teacher beats Kentucky House majority leader in GOP primary
LANCASTER, Ky. - A high school math teacher ousted the majority leader of the Kentucky House of Representatives on Tuesday, with a narrow win in the GOP primary race. Travis Brenda credited a groundsw...
May 22, 2018
Gay Kentucky man loses bid to challenge GOP clerk Kim Davis
MOREHEAD, Ky. - A gay man in eastern Kentucky has lost his bid to challenge Republican county clerk Kim Davis, who went to jail three years ago for denying him and others marriage licenses in the afte...
May 22, 2018
Cohen partner pleads guilty in deal requiring co-operation
NEW YORK - A longtime business partner of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has pleaded guilty to tax fraud in a deal that requires him to co-operate in any ongoing invest...
May 22, 2018
Poland's Olga Tokarczuk wins Man Booker International Prize
LONDON - Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for fiction Tuesday with “Flights,” a novel that charts multiple journeys in time, space and huma...
May 22, 2018
Drummer accused of stealing from Fats Domino won't be tried
HARVEY, La. - Prosecutors won’t pursue charges against a drummer accused of stealing rare coins and a passport from famed New Orleans musician Fats Domino. The New Orleans Advocate reports that ...
May 22, 2018
Parents go to court to boot 30-year-old son from home
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - In a real-life case of “Failure to Launch,” an upstate New York judge Tuesday ordered a 30-year-old man to move out of his parents’ house after they went to court to...
May 22, 2018