Category Archives: World
SUV suddenly takes off, crashes during auto auction; 3 dead
BILLERICA, Mass. - An SUV being shown to prospective buyers at a crowded indoor auto auction suddenly accelerated with a screech of its tires and crashed through a wall on Wednesday, killing three peo...
May 03, 2017
Raul Castro's daughter: His successor may surprise Cubans
HAVANA - One of the highest-profile members of Cuba’s ruling family said Wednesday that the country could be surprised by the person who succeeds her father as president. Mariela Castro’s ...
May 03, 2017
2 arrested after drones found at SC prison
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Two men have been arrested after authorities say they tried to fly drones carrying contraband materials into a medium-security South Carolina prison. Warrants provided to The Associat...
May 03, 2017
Court rejects ex-NFL star Sharper's rape sentence appeal
NEW ORLEANS - A federal appeals court has dismissed former NFL star Darren Sharper’s appeal of his sentence for drugging and raping women. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ two-senten...
May 03, 2017
AP Interview: Ag leader supports renegotiating trade pact
WASHINGTON - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who last week helped persuade President Donald Trump not to abandon the North American Free Trade Agreement, said Wednesday that the administration wou...
May 03, 2017
What are the odds? 2 caught trying to steal statistics exam
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Call it a statistical error: Police say two University of Kentucky students crawled through an air duct to steal a statistics exam from their professor’s office but were caught ...
May 03, 2017
Second weekend of Jazz Fest kicks off with a sunny forecast
NEW ORLEANS - After rain deluged and muddied the infield at the Fair Grounds Race Course, sparking a partial shutdown last week of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, it returns Thursday thr...
May 03, 2017
Isn't it moronic: Morissette manager sad over 'stupid' theft
LOS ANGELES - Alanis Morissette’s meteoric rise to fame put her in need of someone who could wisely invest her fortune for her future. She thought she found that person in Jonathan Todd Schwartz...
May 03, 2017
Trump's remarks often set off White House 'scramble drill'
Washington policymakers have a time-tested method for rolling out new ideas: float a trial balloon. Spread rumours of a policy change or selectively leak it to the press, then see how it plays and pro...
May 03, 2017
Correction: Trump-Offshore Drilling story
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In some versions of a story May 3 about a lawsuit seeking to maintain a drilling ban in the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, The Associated Press reported erroneously the name of one pl...
May 03, 2017
