Category Archives: World
Conductor Levine, ousted after sex abuse inquiry, sues Met
NEW YORK - Conductor James Levine sued the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday after a sexual misconduct investigation sank his storied career, saying the renowned company exploited baseless allegations to...
Mar 15, 2018
WW2 soldier's body returning home 73 years after battle
LOS ANGELES - Nearly three-quarters of a century after he was killed in the ferocious World War II battle chronicled in the 1977 film “A Bridge Too Far,” Staff Sgt. David Rosenkrantz is co...
Mar 15, 2018
The Latest: University head laments fall of campus bridge
MIAMI - The Latest on the collapse of a pedestrian bridge at a Florida university (all times local): 8:30 p.m. Florida International University President Mark Rosenberg says his university and a neigh...
Mar 15, 2018
Grand jury indicts 4 in death of university frat pledge
BATON ROUGE, La. - A grand jury indicted four people Thursday in the death of a Louisiana State University student whose blood-alcohol content was more than six times the legal limit for driving after...
Mar 15, 2018
Radio giant iHeartMedia files bankruptcy plan, expects to operate as usual
TORONTO - IHeartMedia, which has a Canadian partnership with Bell Media, says it’s operating as usual while working on a plan to reduce its debt by US$10 billion while under bankruptcy court pro...
Mar 15, 2018
Janice Dickinson's lawsuit against Bill Cosby can proceed
SAN FRANCISCO - Model Janice Dickinson’s defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby can move forward after the California Supreme Court refused an appeal from the comedian. The court said on its webs...
Mar 15, 2018
Judge: 5 other accusers can testify at Bill Cosby's retrial
PHILADELPHIA - A judge agreed Thursday to let five additional Bill Cosby accusers testify at his April 2 retrial for an alleged 2004 sexual assault, giving prosecutors a chance to portray the man once...
Mar 15, 2018
Radio giant iHeartMedia files bankruptcy plan, expects to operate as usual
TORONTO - IHeartMedia, which has a Canadian partnership with Bell Media, says it’s operating as usual while working on a plan to reduce its debt by US$10 billion while under bankruptcy court pro...
Mar 15, 2018
Prince of Providence: Notorious mayor gets stage treatment
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The story of the notorious late Mayor Buddy Cianci, who was forced out of office twice, is coming to the stage. Trinity Repertory Company in Providence announced on Thursday that it...
Mar 15, 2018
Collapse of bridge built with "innovative" system kills 4
MIAMI - A pedestrian bridge that was under construction collapsed onto a busy Miami highway Thursday afternoon, crushing vehicles beneath massive slabs of concrete and steel and killing at least four ...
Mar 15, 2018