Category Archives: World
Feds close inquiry into police shooting of Albuquerque man
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - There’s not enough evidence to pursue criminal civil rights charges against the Albuquerque police officers who were involved in the 2014 fatal shooting of a homeless man tha...
Jul 18, 2017
AP Explains: Korean border village, site for rivals' talks
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Straddling the world’s most heavily fortified border, the Korean truce village of Panmunjom is a potential flashpoint where North Korean soldiers hacked to death two ...
Jul 18, 2017
Daimler to recall 3 million vehicles to ease diesel doubts
FRANKFURT - German automaker Daimler will voluntarily recall 3 million Mercedes-Benz brand cars with diesel engines in Europe to improve their emissions performance, the company said Tuesday in the wa...
Jul 18, 2017
Jury: Railroad to pay $3.9M for train death of film worker
SAVANNAH, Ga. - A railroad owner plans to appeal a jury’s decision that it must pay $3.9 million to the family of a movie worker killed on a Georgia railroad trestle in 2014, a spokesman for the...
Jul 18, 2017
US homebuilder sentiment declines in July
U.S. homebuilders are feeling less optimistic about their sales prospects, although their overall outlook remains positive. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment inde...
Jul 18, 2017
Harvard's graduate theatre program suspends admissions
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University’s graduate theatre program, which is housed within the critically acclaimed American Repertory Theater, will suspend admissions for the next three years. Th...
Jul 18, 2017
Victims of decades-old accident found on Swiss glacier
BERLIN - Police say the bodies of what appear to be two people killed in an accident decades ago have been recovered from a glacier in southwestern Switzerland. Valais canton (state) police say the bo...
Jul 18, 2017
Daniel Radcliffe comes to aid of mugging victim in London
LONDON - Actor Daniel Radcliffe has come to the aid of a man who was mugged by moped-riding attackers in London. Former police officer David Videcette told the Evening Standard newspaper that two mope...
Jul 18, 2017
Officials try to figure out why roaches swarmed from manhole
PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Water Department is trying to figure out what caused thousands of cockroaches to emerge from a manhole and swarm a neighbourhood. Pat Wall tells WCAU-TV (http://bit.ly/...
Jul 18, 2017
Hastert faces sex-offender treatment with prison release
CHICAGO - Disgraced former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert is far from putting his child-sex-abuse scandal behind him after being released from federal prison in Minnesota where he served a little o...
Jul 18, 2017
