Category Archives: World
FBI at site where Civil War gold rumoured to be buried
A 155-year-old legend about buried federal gold appears to have caught the attention of the FBI. Dozens of FBI agents, along with Pennsylvania state officials and members of a treasure-hunting group, ...
Mar 16, 2018
Hawaii names leader for agency that sent false missile alert
HONOLULU - Hawaii on Friday appointed a retired Navy captain to lead an overhaul of the state Emergency Management Agency two months after an employee mistakenly sent an alert warning of a ballistic m...
Mar 16, 2018
Deputies accused of complex plan to bilk woman with dementia
NORTH HIGHLANDS, Calif. - Two California officers are being investigated on allegations of stealing money from a 75-year-old woman with dementia, listing her home for sale and putting her on a plane t...
Mar 16, 2018
Trump's possible China tariffs send opponents scrambling
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is considering sweeping tariffs on imports from China, with an announcement possible as early as next week. And that has industry groups and some lawmakers scrambli...
Mar 16, 2018
Jailhouse video shows deputies watching as inmate dies
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - Jailhouse video reveals California sheriff’s deputies watching and sometimes laughing as a schizophrenic man who had been strapped naked to a chair for 46 hours writhes...
Mar 16, 2018
15 killed in Kenya floods, scores of families displaced
NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyan officials said Friday that at least 15 people have drowned and scores of families have been displaced across the East African nation during two days of heavy rainfall that caus...
Mar 16, 2018
Gorilla at Philadelphia Zoo takes stand against dirty hands
PHILADELPHIA - A male gorilla at the Philadelphia Zoo is taking a stand against dirty hands by opting to walk on two legs. Apparently, 18-year-old Louis is a clean freak. When Louis has his hands full...
Mar 16, 2018
60 years later, Kim Novak reflects on 'Vertigo'
NEW YORK - Last fall, on her ranch in southern Oregon, Kim Novak found herself doing what she calls “my own Me Too painting.” Novak, who turned 85 on Tuesday, had recently broken her left ...
Mar 16, 2018
Police say Indiana man took taxi to and from bank robbery
EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Police say a 19-year-old Indiana man took a cab to and from a bank robbery and that he paid the driver with some of his stolen cash. Derrick Faria was arrested less than an hour aft...
Mar 16, 2018
Veteran Democratic Congresswoman Louise Slaughter dies
WASHINGTON - Veteran U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter, a Kentucky blacksmith’s daughter who went on to chair one of Congress’ most important committees, died Friday at a Washington hospital wher...
Mar 16, 2018