Category Archives: World
OAS chief says he backs targeted sanctions against Venezuela
WASHINGTON - The leader of the Western Hemisphere’s largest diplomatic body said Wednesday he backs targeted sanctions against high-ranking Venezuelan officials responsible for the political and...
Jul 19, 2017
Cops: Customer threatened to shoot someone over bad sandwich
SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio - Police in suburban Cleveland say a fast-food restaurant customer angry about the way his sandwich tasted and looked threatened to shoot somebody over it. The South Euclid Police D...
Jul 19, 2017
In Suu Kyi's Myanmar, concern rises over press freedom
YANGON, Myanmar - In the old, military-ruled Myanmar, it would not have been a surprising scene: three journalists, bound together in chains, raising shackled hands in unison and speaking out against ...
Jul 19, 2017
16-year-old from Minnesota ID'd as victim of John Wayne Gacy
CHICAGO - After running away from his Minnesota home in 1976, 16-year-old Jimmy Haakenson called his mother, told her he was in Chicago, then disappeared forever. More than 40 years later, a detective...
Jul 19, 2017
French woman faces prosecution in Iraq for possible IS links
PARIS - A French woman captured in the Iraqi city of Mosul with her four children is facing possible prosecution in Iraq for allegedly collaborating with the Islamic State group, in a test case for ho...
Jul 19, 2017
Iraqi officer seeks vengeance in Mosul, where killings mount
MOSUL, Iraq - For one Iraqi lieutenant, the fight against the Islamic State group in Mosul has been a slow, methodical quest for revenge. For three years, he has hunted for two IS militants from his v...
Jul 19, 2017
'Juice' will be loose: OJ Simpson granted parole in robbery
LOVELOCK, Nev. - O.J. Simpson was granted parole Thursday after more than eight years in prison for a Las Vegas hotel-room heist, successfully making his case for freedom in a nationally televised hea...
Jul 19, 2017
Brazil freezes accounts of ex-President Silva in graft case
SAO PAULO - Brazil’s central bank has frozen four bank accounts belonging to ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva due to his recent conviction on corruption charges, the federal judge overseei...
Jul 19, 2017
Wisconsin father charged in fatal shooting of 3-year-old son
RACINE, Wis. - A father has been charged in the fatal shooting of his 3-year-old son in Racine, Wisconsin. Police were called to the apartment July 12 where they found Jere’Miah Pitt dead of a s...
Jul 19, 2017
Judge denies Dayton's veto of Minnesota Legislature funding
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A judge restored funding Wednesday for Minnesota’s legislative branch, ruling that Gov. Mark Dayton’s veto of the Legislature’s operating budget was an unconstituti...
Jul 19, 2017
