Category Archives: World

RIDGEWOOD, N.J. - A young black bear that’s been roaming around New Jersey residential areas has been tranquilized and is out of a home’s tree. Crews managed to tranquilize the 1 1/2-year-...

BATON ROUGE, La. - With calls for his resignation increasing, Louisiana’s secretary of state announced Tuesday that he is leaving his position as state elections chief amid allegations he sexual...

NASHVILLE - The maker of the Gibson guitar, omnipresent for decades on the American music stage, is filing for bankruptcy protection after wrestling for years with debt. A pre-negotiated reorganizatio...

WASHINGTON - The two top officials in charge of security and toxic-waste cleanups at the Environmental Protection Agency have abruptly left their jobs, days after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt told l...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s political attacks on the FBI make America less safe because they undermine public confidence that the bureau is an “honest, competent and independent&...

YOLA, Nigeria - The Associated Press has withdrawn its story from May 1 about explosions that killed 28 worshippers at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria because there is evidence that part of the story...

WASHINGTON - U.S. construction spending dropped 1.7 per cent in March, the biggest setback in 11 months, with weakness in a number of sectors including the biggest plunge in home building in nine year...

JACKSONVILLE, Ala. - Country music band Alabama will be hosting a benefit concert in Alabama for Jacksonville tornado relief. A statement by Jacksonville State University says Alabama has pledged to g...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - After a second suspected Israeli strike killing Iranian forces in Syria, the Islamic Republic has few ways to retaliate as its leaders wrestle with both unrest at home an...

NEW YORK - Two popular entertainment brands - Tina Fey’s high school morality tale “Mean Girls” and the goofy undersea cartoon “SpongeBob SquarePants” - lead the Tony Awa...