Category Archives: World
Times, New Yorker win Pulitzer for Weinstein scandal
NEW YORK - The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement and set o...
Apr 16, 2018
Man said Hooters sign fell on his foot; video said otherwise
MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. - A Florida man said the letter “o” from a Hooters sign blew off the wall and landed on his foot, leaving him with injuries, but surveillance video said otherwise. WFLA...
Apr 16, 2018
US says California rejects proposed border duties for troops
SAN DIEGO - The Trump administration said Monday that California Gov. Jerry Brown rejected terms of the National Guard’s initial deployment to the Mexican border, but a state official said nothi...
Apr 16, 2018
8-year-old boy at school slashes other students with knife
SAUK RAPIDS, Minn. - An 8-year-old student took a kitchen knife to a central Minnesota elementary school and randomly attacked three other children Monday, authorities said. Police Chief Perry Beise s...
Apr 16, 2018
Optimism among builders slides for fourth consecutive month
NEW YORK - Homebuilder confidence slid for the fourth consecutive month with steadily rising mortgage rates and sky-high home prices putting ownership out of reach for more and more Americans. The Nat...
Apr 16, 2018
WiFi network named 'remote detonator' prompts gym evacuation
SAGINAW TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A Michigan gym patron looking for a WiFi connection found one named “remote detonator,” prompting an evacuation and precautionary search of the facility by a bomb...
Apr 16, 2018
Body of last missing family member found in California river
LEGGETT, Calif. - Searchers on Monday found the body of a 12-year-old boy in a Northern California river - the last of four family members who perished when their sport utility vehicle plunged into th...
Apr 16, 2018
UK court rules against parents who want son to go to Italy
LONDON - Britain’s Court of Appeal has ruled against the parents of a terminally ill toddler who are seeking permission to take him to Italy for medical treatment. The parents of Alfie Evans hav...
Apr 16, 2018
Springsteen, mom dance together to celebrate her birthday
ASBURY PARK, N.J. - Bruce Springsteen treated his 92-year-old mother to an early birthday celebration before Mother Nature spoiled the party. The 68-year-old Boss and his mom, Adele, danced to two son...
Apr 16, 2018
'Full Metal Jacket' actor R. Lee Ermey dies at 74
LOS ANGELES - R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine who made a career in Hollywood playing hard-nosed military men like Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” has die...
Apr 16, 2018