Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - Former New York Knicks star Charles Oakley has reached a deal with prosecutors who charged him with striking a security guard at Madison Square Garden. The Daily News (http://nydn.us/2wrXJ5...

DETROIT - A German Volkswagen executive pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and fraud charges in Detroit in a scheme to cheat emission rules on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles. Shackled at the wrists a...

KIGALI, Rwanda - Rwanda’s long-time president has 99 per cent support with nearly half the ballots counted in Friday’s presidential election, according to preliminary results from a vote h...

MANILA, Philippines - Alarm over North Korea’s missile tests, a tentative step to temper South China Sea disputes, and unease over a disastrous siege by pro-Islamic State group militants will gr...

BALTIMORE - Last week, the number of homicides in Baltimore surpassed 200, making 2017 a record-setting year for violence on the city’s streets. As the body count rises, the police department ha...

PHILADELPHIA - Nearly two decades of using heroin and a year of living on the streets of Philadelphia had led Steven Kemp to a simple conclusion: It was time to get sober. But when he staggered into a...

WASHINGTON - Get your insurance through your employer? The ongoing political turmoil around “Obamacare” all but guarantees you’ll still be able to do that. Ask Walt Rowen, whose busi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A sharp-eyed airline passenger spotted another passenger texting about sexually assaulting children, leading officers in California and Washington state to arrest two people and find t...

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - A woman and her two children were held captive for more than two years in a Virginia home before escaping when deputies arrived to check on their welfare, authorities said. The w...

INDIANAPOLIS - An Indiana soldier who was just 32 days into his first deployment was one of two American service members killed in a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan, military officials confirmed...