Category Archives: World
Notorious heroin market along train tracks to be cleaned up
PHILADELPHIA - The cleanup of an open-air heroin market that has thrived for decades along a set of train tracks miles outside the heart of Philadelphia began Monday with officials cautioning that the...
Jul 31, 2017
Texas lawmakers try again to address rising pregnancy deaths
AUSTIN, Texas - Criticized over failing earlier to address skyrocketing pregnancy-related deaths, Texas lawmakers Monday pushed with renewed urgency efforts to examine why the state’s maternal m...
Jul 31, 2017
Shkreli jury ends first day of deliberations without verdict
NEW YORK - The first day of jury deliberations at the federal securities fraud trial of Martin Shkreli ended Monday without a verdict for the former biotech CEO best known for hiking up the price of a...
Jul 31, 2017
$50M settlement approved for DuPont mercury contamination
WAYNESBORO, Va. - Chemical company DuPont will pay about $50 million under an environmental settlement that aims to make up for decades of mercury pollution one of its factories released into the Sout...
Jul 31, 2017
Drug suspect arrested after 30 years on the lam
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - After 30 years on the run, a foreign national wanted on federal drug charges has been captured. Officials from the U.S. Marshal’s Office said Monday that 68-year-old Colombian ...
Jul 31, 2017
Army corps to release delayed report on blocking Asian carp
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will release a previously delayed report on measures that could be taken at an Illinois waterway chokepoint to prevent Asian carp from r...
Jul 31, 2017
Former US diplomat liable in slavery, sex trafficking case
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former U.S. diplomat who worked at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen was found liable for the second time Monday for enslaving and sexually trafficking a woman who worked as a housekeeper....
Jul 31, 2017
Harvard sorry directory erroneously said Scaramucci was dead
BOSTON - Harvard Law School apologized Monday after its new alumni directory erroneously listed ousted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci as dead. The directory included an asteris...
Jul 31, 2017
UK PM's office says free movement from EU will end in 2019
LONDON - Free movement to Britain from European Union countries will end when the U.K. leaves the bloc in March 2019, Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman said Monday. But he acknowledged it&#...
Jul 31, 2017
Dog the Bounty Hunter joins legal fight against bail reform
TRENTON, N.J. - The former star of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” has joined a legal effort to have New Jersey’s new bail rules thrown out, claiming the changes are “not working and a...
Jul 31, 2017