Category Archives: World

Gone extinct: Animatronic T-Rex bursts into flames
CANON CITY, Colo. - The co-owner of a dinosaur-themed park in southern Colorado thinks an electrical malfunction caused a life-size animatronic Tyrannosaurus Rex to burst into flames. Zach Reynolds sa...
Mar 22, 2018
Prosecutors: Uzbek native used codes to hide terror payment
DENVER - U.S. prosecutors told a jury Thursday that a Philadelphia man frustrated by mistreatment of Muslims used codes and other deception to hide a $300 payment in support of a terrorist group, but ...
Mar 22, 2018
Peru's new president vows to tackle endemic corruption
LIMA, Peru - New President Martin Vizcarra promised to fight Peru’s corruption head on as he assumed the office Friday vowing to heal the wounds left by a vote-buying scandal that abruptly force...
Mar 22, 2018

Fired officer who killed unarmed black man to get back pay
CINCINNATI - A white police officer fired after he fatally shot a black unarmed motorist will get about $344,000 in back pay and legal fees from the University of Cincinnati, the school said Thursday....
Mar 22, 2018

Police: Ex-Mormon official asked to see woman's breasts
SALT LAKE CITY - A former Mormon missionary leader under investigation by church officials over sexual assault allegations said he asked the alleged victim to expose herself to him during a 1984 encou...
Mar 22, 2018

Latest: Shooting victim dies after removal of life support
GREAT MILLS, Md. - The Latest on a shooting at a southern Maryland school (all times local): 10 a.m. A 16-year-old girl shot earlier this week at her Maryland high school has died. The St. Mary’...
Mar 22, 2018
China targets $3 billion of US goods in tariff spat
BEIJING - China announced a $3 billion list of U.S. goods for possible retaliation in a tariff dispute with President Donald Trump and girded Friday for a bigger battle over technology policy as finan...
Mar 22, 2018

US, AT&T fire opening salvos as govt seeks to block merger
WASHINGTON - The government and AT&T exchanged opening salvos in a federal trial Thursday as the U.S. seeks to block the telephone giant from absorbing Time Warner, in a case that could shape how ...
Mar 22, 2018
B.C. man who ran airborne drug-smuggling ring pleads guilty in U.S. court
SEATTLE - A Canadian man who ran a helicopter-based drug-smuggling ring years before Washington state legalized marijuana pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge Thursday, after fighting his extradition...
Mar 22, 2018
Bolton replacing McMaster as Trump national security adviser
WASHINGTON - Charging ahead with the dramatic remaking of his White House, President Donald Trump said he would replace national security adviser H.R. McMaster with the former U.N. Ambassador John Bol...
Mar 22, 2018