Category Archives: World
Jet was within 100 feet of hitting 2 planes in San Francisco
An Air Canada plane with 140 people on board came within 100 feet of crashing onto two of four planes lined up to take off at San Francisco International Airport last week, according to a preliminary ...
Jul 13, 2017
Venezuela cop in helicopter attack attends opposition rally
CARACAS, Venezuela - A police officer who stole a helicopter and fired on two Venezuelan government buildings appeared in public for the first time Thursday night, defying a nationwide manhunt by show...
Jul 13, 2017
'Scopes monkey trial' town erects evolution figure's statue
NASHVILLE - The famed “Scopes monkey trial” pitted two of the nation’s foremost celebrity lawyers against one another, but only one of them was memorialized outside the Tennessee cou...
Jul 13, 2017
Jimmy Buffett's home state ends ban on Margarita pitchers
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Welcome back to Margaritaville: Singer Jimmy Buffett’s childhood home on Thursday backed off a short-lived ban on the sale of pitchers of the drink he made famous. The Alabama...
Jul 13, 2017
Britain's Natural History Museum unveils huge whale skeleton
LONDON - Britain’s Natural History Museum in London suspended a gigantic skeleton of a blue whale in its main entrance Thursday, drawing attention to vanishing species in an environment under st...
Jul 13, 2017
Liberal town has Mike from Montclair's back against Christie
MONTCLAIR, N.J. - Residents of a traditionally liberal New Jersey town want Republican Gov. Chris Christie to hold a town hall there after he called them communists. NJ.com reports a Change.org petiti...
Jul 13, 2017
Cosby trial cost $219K, more than half paying for overtime
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Officials say Bill Cosby’s trial last month in suburban Philadelphia cost the local government $219,000, with more than half going toward overtime for deputies, detectives, sec...
Jul 13, 2017
CBS News announces partnership with BBC
NEW YORK - Britain’s BBC News is ending a long-running agreement to share reporting and resources with ABC News in the United States and instead will match up with CBS. CBS News President David ...
Jul 13, 2017
Jet blast at St. Maarten's seaside airport kills tourist
A New Zealand tourist has been killed by the blast from a jetliner taking off at a seaside airport in the Dutch Caribbean territory of St. Maarten, officials said Thursday. The 57-year-old woman was k...
Jul 13, 2017
Cooper: Trump aide like 'Hungarian Don Rickles'
NEW YORK - CNN anchor Anderson Cooper dubbed an aide to President Donald Trump “the Hungarian Don Rickles” following an insult-laden exchange on the network. On Cooper’s show Wednesd...
Jul 13, 2017
