Category Archives: World
Full recovery from California wildfires may take years
SANTA ROSA, Calif. - It will take at least months and likely years to fully recover from devastating wildfires that ripped through Northern California earlier this month, destroying at least 8,900 str...
Oct 29, 2017
Jane Juska, who wrote about late-in-life sex, dies at 84
CHICO, Calif. - Jane Juska, whose chronicle of searching for sex as a woman in her 60s became a bestselling memoir and later a stage show, has died in California. She was 84. Juska died Oct. 24 at a C...
Oct 29, 2017
Las Vegas shooting survivors memorialize event with tattoos
OGDEN, Utah - Four Utah women who survived a mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music festival are memorializing their experiences with matching tattoos. Laura Farthing, Shelley Burch, Lori Wilson a...
Oct 29, 2017
WWII veteran laid to rest in Illinois, 73 years after death
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Relatives of a World War II veteran who died in a 1944 battle in the Netherlands that was part of an Allied campaign later depicted in the movie “A Bridge Too Far” have...
Oct 29, 2017
UK to investigate minister who asked aide to buy sex toys
LONDON - Britain’s Cabinet Office will investigate whether an international trade minister breached conduct rules by asking his secretary to buy sex toys as widening allegations of sexual harass...
Oct 29, 2017
Spanish envoy: Catalan leader out of a job "no matter what"
MADRID - Catalonia’s deposed leader is now out of a job “no matter what he says” but could run in December’s early regional election if he hasn’t been imprisoned by then,...
Oct 29, 2017
Trump fumes as Mueller probe enters new phase with charges
WASHINGTON - Special counsel Robert Muller’s charges Monday against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and two other aides marked a new phase in his sprawling investigation into Russia...
Oct 29, 2017
Clooney's 'Suburbicon' tanks, 'Saw' sequel no. 1 with $16.3M
NEW YORK - George Clooney’s “Suburbicon” notched one of the most dismal wide-release debuts in recent years on a sluggish pre-Halloween weekend where the horror sequel “Jigsaw&...
Oct 29, 2017
University sets record for people dressed like penguins
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - An Ohio university has apparently set a world record for the number of people dressed in penguin costumes. The Vindicator reports 972 Youngstown State University students, alumni an...
Oct 29, 2017
Puerto Rico says it's scrapping $300M Whitefish contract
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The head of Puerto Rico’s power company said Sunday the agency will cancel its $300 million contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings amid increased scrutiny of the tiny Mo...
Oct 29, 2017