Category Archives: World

The Latest: Veterans home victims called 'brave women'
YOUNTVILLE, Calif. - The Latest on an armed man at a veterans home in Northern California (all times local): 11 p.m. Two of the mental health workers killed by a former U.S. soldier at a California ve...
Mar 10, 2018
No horseplay: Florida club closed due to hoofed attraction
MIAMI - A bit featuring a scantily clad woman riding bareback on a white horse has prompted officials to shut down a Florida nightclub. Miami Beach City Manager Jimmy Morales announced Friday that he ...
Mar 09, 2018
Settlement resolves lawsuit over Pepe the Frog paintings
The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog has resolved a copyright infringement lawsuit that accused a Missouri woman of misusing the character to sell hate-promoting oil paintings. The settlement is t...
Mar 09, 2018
Let there be light, an hour longer into the evening sky
WASHINGTON - Time to set your clocks and watches one hour ahead. And maybe save some time to grouse about losing an hour’s sleep Saturday night. The shift from standard to daylight saving time o...
Mar 09, 2018
Memoir by former Border Patrol agent sparks debate
PHOENIX - Francisco Cantu said he joined the Border Patrol at age 23 to get an on-the-ground education in international relations. Now 32, he says he didn’t expect his new memoir examining some ...
Mar 09, 2018

Kristen Wiig cast as Wonder Woman villain Cheetah
LOS ANGELES - Kristen Wiig will play a villain in the next “Wonder Woman” film. Director Patty Jenkins announced on Twitter Friday that Wiig will star as Wonder Woman rival Cheetah in the ...
Mar 09, 2018

California bullet train costs soar to $77B; opening delayed
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The projected cost of California’s bullet train between San Francisco and Los Angeles has jumped to $77 billion and the completion date has been pushed back four years to 20...
Mar 09, 2018
Correction: Veterans Home-Shooting story
YOUNTVILLE, Calif. - In a story March 9 about a fatal shooting at a California veterans’ home, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Jennifer Golick phoned her husband to tell him a for...
Mar 09, 2018

Self-promoting 'Pharma Bro' sentenced to prison in fraud
NEW YORK - Martin Shrkeli, the smirking “Pharma Bro” vilified for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug, was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for defrauding investors in two f...
Mar 09, 2018
NewsAlert: Self-promoting 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud
NEW YORK - Self-promoting ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud. More coming. The Associated Press
Mar 09, 2018