Category Archives: World
Bill Cosby's lawyers want juror ousted over 'guilty' comment
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - A juror in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial is under scrutiny for allegedly saying he thinks the comedian is guilty. Cosby’s lawyers asked Friday that the juror be rem...
Apr 06, 2018
Daniel Akaka, first Native Hawaiian in Congress, dies at 93
HONOLULU - Former Sen. Daniel Kahikina Akaka, the first Native Hawaiian elected to Congress who served for more than three decades, died Friday. He was 93. Akaka died in Honolulu after being hospitali...
Apr 06, 2018
Tennessee man gets 6 years for death at Trace Adkins concert
HUNTSVILLE, Tenn. - A Tennessee man will serve six years in the death of an Indiana man who was dragged, then run over by an SUV. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports a judge declined to give 45-year-o...
Apr 06, 2018
Crewman credited with saving lives as fishing boat sank
HONOLULU - Khanh Huynh has been a commercial fisherman since he was 12 years old. For the past six years, he’s been living on a fishing boat in Hawaii, catching premium ahi tuna for some of the ...
Apr 06, 2018
Powell says Fed expects to stick with gradual rate hikes
CHICAGO - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday painted a mostly sunny view of the U.S. economy and said the Fed remains committed to raising its key interest rate gradually unless events c...
Apr 06, 2018
Moose stomps man's foot in Alaska after he kicks her
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A man was injured north of Anchorage after a moose that he had just kicked stomped his foot in return, state officials said. KTVA-TV reported the man escaped major injuries in the ...
Apr 06, 2018
US says Mexican music promoter laundered money for cartel
MEXICO CITY - The U.S. Treasury Department accused a prominent Mexican concert promoter Friday of laundering money for the Jalisco drug cartel. The department named promoter Jesus Perez Alvear, better...
Apr 06, 2018
Brazil's ex-President 'Lula' defies court, hunkers down
SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil - Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defied an order to turn himself in to police on Friday, instead hunkering down with supporters at a metallurgical u...
Apr 06, 2018
'Eyes and ears': Past Guard border deployments offer clues
SAN DIEGO - The U.S. National Guard faces a vastly different environment than it did on its last two deployments to the border with Mexico, with far fewer illegal crossings and more Central Americans ...
Apr 06, 2018
Trump, Kim summit may boost recovery of US Korea War remains
TOKYO - More than six decades after the troops died for their country, the repatriation of the remains of thousands of U.S. military personnel missing in action and presumed dead from the Korean War m...
Apr 06, 2018