Category Archives: World
Authorities: Teen slain after leaving mosque, man arrested
STERLING, Va. - Police in Virginia charged a 22-year-old man with killing a teenage girl who was reported missing after she and her friends left a mosque early Sunday. Fairfax County police charged Da...
Jun 19, 2017
5 times a lottery insider and his friends hit bogus jackpots
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Eddie Tipton, a former employee at the Multi-State Lottery Association, is accused of installing software on Random Number Generators that allowed him to predict winning combinations...
Jun 19, 2017
FBI missed rigged jackpot in 2006 before lottery scheme grew
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Investigators were suspicious in 2006 when they heard that a rural Texas judge was trying to exchange $450,000 in consecutively marked bills. But Tommy Tipton, a Fayette County magis...
Jun 19, 2017
Indiana Christian school at centre of LGBT voucher debate
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The Lighthouse Christian Academy promises to provide an exemplary education, a caring atmosphere and service to God - but not for everyone. The school says in its admissions brochu...
Jun 19, 2017
Vatican: Pope to visit Chile and Peru in January 2018
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis will visit Chile and Peru in 2018, the Vatican announced Monday. The Holy See said Francis will visit Chile from Jan. 15-18, then head to Peru, where he’ll stay until...
Jun 19, 2017
The Latest: Hearing scheduled on release of Cosby jury names
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - The Latest on Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial (all times local): 3:50 p.m. A judge will hear arguments on whether the names of the jurors at Bill Cosby’s sexual assault...
Jun 19, 2017
The Latest: Paris attacker dead, French minister says
PARIS - The Latest on Paris security operation on Champs-Elysees (all times local): 5:30 p.m. France’s interior minister says that a driver who rammed a car carrying explosives into a police con...
Jun 19, 2017
Justices say law on offensive trademarks is unconstitutional
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday struck down part of a law that bans offensive trademarks, ruling in favour of an Asian-American rock band called the Slants and giving a major boost to the Was...
Jun 19, 2017
Kelly's Alex Jones report seen by just 3.5 million viewers
HARTFORD, Conn. - The publicity and uproar in the days before Sunday’s broadcast of Megyn Kelly’s interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones didn’t translate into ratings. The NBC...
Jun 19, 2017
Car rams police vehicle on famed Paris avenue; attacker dies
PARIS - A man on the radar of French authorities for extremism was killed Monday after ramming a car carrying arms and explosives into a police convoy on Paris’ famed Champs-Elysees Avenue, sett...
Jun 19, 2017