Category Archives: World
Seattle mayor ends re-election bid after sexual abuse claims
SEATTLE - For weeks Seattle Mayor Ed Murray pushed ahead with plans for his re-election campaign despite claims by men he sexually abused them decades ago when they were teenagers, allegations Murray ...
May 09, 2017
Obama: Private sector is key to tackling climate change
MILAN - Former U.S. President Barack Obama says he’s “confident that the United States will continue to move in the right direction” on climate change despite his successor’s p...
May 09, 2017
St. Louis to turn Chuck Berry's one-time home into museum
St. Louis is planning to convert Chuck Berry’s one-time home into a museum and to create a cultural district around it honouring the rock ‘n’ roll legend and other prominent African ...
May 09, 2017
Tunnel with nuclear waste collapses in Washington state
RICHLAND, Wash. - A portion of an underground tunnel containing rail cars filled with radioactive waste collapsed Tuesday at a sprawling storage facility in a remote area of Washington state, forcing ...
May 09, 2017
Man guilty of killing teen whose body has not been found
SAN FRANCISCO - A jury on Tuesday found a man guilty of abducting and killing a 15-year-old Northern California girl whose body has never been found despite hundreds of volunteers searching through wo...
May 09, 2017
Ex-'Dance Moms' star Abby Lee Miller gets 1 year in prison
PITTSBURGH - Former “Dance Moms” reality TV star Abby Lee Miller has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for bankruptcy fraud and for taking $120,000 worth of Australian currency ...
May 09, 2017
Daring deer licks barrel of Indiana turkey hunter's shotgun
DANVILLE, Ind. - Some daring deer approached a group of hunters in central Indiana and one was so unafraid that it licked the barrel of a shotgun and allowed one of the men to stroke its neck. Perhaps...
May 09, 2017
Is it really 'S-Town'? Hit podcast sparks an identity crisis
WOODSTOCK, Ala. - Attention is often a hard-won commodity out in the country, and sometimes it’s the last thing a little town wants. Residents puff out their chests when a high school in a rural...
May 09, 2017
Job openings increase slightly in March
WASHINGTON - Steady job growth has left U.S. employers with an increasingly shallow pool of unemployed workers to consider hiring, something that could lead to faster wage gains. The number of job pos...
May 09, 2017
Teen's plea for free Wendy's nuggets sets retweet record
RENO, Nev. - A Twitter plea from a Nevada teen for a year of free chicken nuggets from Wendy’s is now the most retweeted post of all time. Carter Wilkerson asked the fast food chain on Twitter l...
May 09, 2017