Category Archives: World
Booker Prize to mark 50th birthday by naming overall champ
LONDON - Organizers of the Man Booker Prize for fiction are marking the award’s 50th anniversary by choosing an overall champion from past winners. There have been 51 Booker winners since 1969, ...
Feb 15, 2018
Ex-teacher accused of paying students for help making bomb
NEW YORK - A former high school teacher and his brother were accused on Thursday of stockpiling explosive materials in their apartment and paying students to dismantle fireworks for gunpowder to make ...
Feb 15, 2018

Powerball winner who demands anonymity to get money
NASHUA, N.H. - A woman who won a $559.7 million Powerball jackpot will get her money as a legal fight over releasing her identity plays out in court. In a court filing on Thursday, the New Hampshire L...
Feb 15, 2018

Budget undercuts Trump focus on mental health, school safety
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is calling for a focus on mental health and school safety in response to shootings like the one that took 17 lives in Florida, but his budget would cut funding in b...
Feb 15, 2018
Protest over Little Rock's "Babe Bracket" spreads nationwide
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The runner-up from last year’s “Babe Bracket,” a radio station promotion that places local female journalists in a tournament-style contest whether they want to b...
Feb 15, 2018
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux announce separation
LOS ANGELES - Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux are separating after two and a half years of marriage. The couple said Thursday in a statement to The Associated Press released through a publicist th...
Feb 15, 2018
Lawyer: El Chapo eager to go to trial, not cutting any deal
NEW YORK - Notorious Mexican drug lord and escape artist Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is eager to go to trial but complained in a letter filed Thursday that his jail conditions are so harsh h...
Feb 15, 2018
Los Angeles airport people mover project advances
LOS ANGELES - The long-sought goal of being able to get in and out of Los Angeles International Airport via an automated people mover instead of by car or bus has taken a step forward with a recommend...
Feb 15, 2018
5 referred to juvenile court in North Dakota hazing incident
FARGO, N.D. - Authorities referred five boys to juvenile court Thursday following alleged misconduct in the boys’ locker room at a small North Dakota school. The Richland County Sheriff’s ...
Feb 15, 2018

Broadcaster Warner Wolf sues Don Imus for age discrimination
NEW YORK - The sportscaster who popularized the phrase “Let’s go to the videotape!” has filed an age discrimination lawsuit over his firing from shock jock Don Imus’ radio show...
Feb 15, 2018