Category Archives: World
UK: London apartment tower used banned siding in renovation
LONDON - The new exterior cladding used in a renovation on London’s Grenfell Tower may have been banned under U.K. building regulations, two British ministers said Sunday as police continued the...
Jun 18, 2017
Mother: Son tried to save Navy shipmates after collision
YOKOSUKA, Japan - The mother of a U.S. Navy sailor said her son kept diving to try to save his shipmates after a collision at sea until their flooded sleeping berth began running out of air pockets, w...
Jun 18, 2017
Forest fire kills 62 in Portugal; search on for more bodies
PEDROGAO GRANDE, Portugal - A raging forest fire in central Portugal killed at least 62 people as they desperately tried to flee, charring cars and trucks as it swept over roads. The disaster - the wo...
Jun 17, 2017
Blondie's Debbie Harry reigns over NYC's Mermaid Parade
NEW YORK - Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of the new wave band Blondie reigned over a waterlogged edition of New York City’s zany Mermaid Parade. The rockers known for songs like “Rapture...
Jun 17, 2017
Stephen Furst, Flounder in 'Animal House,' dies at 63
LOS ANGELES - Stephen Furst, who played naive fraternity pledge Flounder in the hit movie “Animal House,” has died of complications from diabetes, his family said Saturday. Furst was 63. F...
Jun 17, 2017
Woman who stormed stage during 'Julius Caesar' is arrested
NEW YORK - A New York production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” with a Trump-like character who is assassinated had a boisterous new scene this weekend: an activist who stormed the...
Jun 17, 2017
Trump goes from regal to rustic this weekend at Camp David
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump chose simple over swanky this Father’s Day weekend. Nearly five months into his presidency, Trump flew for the first time Saturday to Camp David, the governme...
Jun 17, 2017
The charges against Bill Cosby and their potential sentences
Prosecutors have vowed to try Bill Cosby again, declaring the woman who accuses the comedian of drugging and molesting her at his Philadelphia-area home in 2004 is “entitled to a verdict.”...
Jun 17, 2017
Jury questions posed during Bill Cosby's sex assault trial
Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial ended Saturday in a mistrial after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked. The sequestered jury of seven men and five women paused deliberations many times...
Jun 17, 2017
Texas companies tie worker shortages to immigration fears
AUSTIN, Texas - Though construction is in high demand in Texas’ booming capital city, Oscar Martinez’s drywall company is suddenly struggling. One-third of the approximately 20 employees M...
Jun 17, 2017