Category Archives: World
ACLU files complaint over charter school's hairstyle policy
MALDEN, Mass. - The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts has filed a complaint against a charter school for disciplining and suspending black and biracial students because their hairstyles ...
May 15, 2017
Dad tries to fathom why son allegedly decapitated his mother
ESTACADA, Ore. - An Oregon father is struggling to try to understand why his adult son allegedly decapitated his mother on Mother’s Day and then showed up at a grocery store with her head, stabb...
May 15, 2017
California officials criticize 'stupid' US drug crackdown
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California’s attorney general and state lawmakers again moved Monday in the opposite direction from the Trump administration, this time on penalties for criminals. State Att...
May 15, 2017
Father: Pledge who died after hazing treated like 'roadkill'
NEW YORK - Penn State fraternity brothers who ordered a pledge to guzzle alcohol and failed to get adequate care for him after he twice fell down a flight of stairs treated him like “roadkill,&#...
May 15, 2017
Tronc in talks with Wrapports to acquire Chicago Sun-Times
CHICAGO - Two longtime newspaper rivals in the once highly competitive Chicago market may end with the acquisition of the Chicago Sun-Times by the owner of the Chicago Tribune, which has grabbed the a...
May 15, 2017
UN: Sexual violence increasingly used as 'terrorism' tactic
Sexual violence is increasingly being used as “a tactic of terrorism” from Iraq, Syria and Yemen in the Middle East to Somalia, Nigeria and Mali in Africa, a top U.N. official said Monday....
May 15, 2017
No laughing matter: Writer claims Conan O'Brien stole jokes
LOS ANGELES - If the best jokes are stolen, the best comedians don’t think it’s funny when they’re accused of ripping off material. That’s why Conan O’Brien is vigorously...
May 15, 2017
Death in Vegas raises questions about police restraint move
LAS VEGAS - The death of an unarmed man after police squeezed his neck during a struggle to subdue him outside a Las Vegas Strip casino raised questions Monday about the risks of the technique designe...
May 15, 2017
White House insists Trump's disclosures 'wholly appropriate'
WASHINGTON - The White House on Tuesday defended President Donald Trump’s disclosure of classified information to senior Russian officials as “wholly appropriate,” as Trump tried to ...
May 15, 2017
Couple, 5 kids, family dog die in house fire; cause unknown
AKRON, Ohio - A couple and their five children died Monday in an early morning house fire. A relative identified those killed as 35-year-old Dennis Huggins, 38-year-old Angela Boggs, 14-year-old Jered...
May 15, 2017