Category Archives: World
Indonesian corruption investigator attacked with chemical
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Police said an anti-corruption commission investigator leading a probe into a scandal that threatens to implicate high-profile Indonesian politicians was attacked Tuesday with a c...
Apr 11, 2017
'Worst nightmare': Parents wait in agony after shooting
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - For Elizabeth Barajas it had been an hours-long nightmare waiting to learn the fate of the daughter she had dropped off at school a couple of hours before police reported gunf...
Apr 10, 2017
Man who killed wife at California school called her 'angel'
LOS ANGELES - A man who killed his estranged wife and a special-needs student in her classroom Monday then killed himself had professed his love for her just last month on social media, including a po...
Apr 10, 2017
Pepper spray, assault arrests, follow rapper's shopping trip
JACKSON, Miss. - At first, it was a rap star on a spring break shopping jaunt on a Mississippi Sunday afternoon. Then, cellphone video shows a security guard pepper spraying rapper Boosie Badazz and h...
Apr 10, 2017
Police: Man in 'Hold My Beer' T-shirt drove under influence
HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut police say a man wearing a T-shirt that said “Hold My Beer And Watch This” has been arrested for driving under the influence after he crashed into a graveyard...
Apr 10, 2017
US temporarily bans use of cyanide predator traps in Idaho
BOISE, Idaho - U.S. officials on Monday temporarily stopped the use of predator-killing cyanide traps in Idaho after one sickened a young boy and killed his dog last month after they checked it out. T...
Apr 10, 2017
Executions in China said to outpace world despite decline
BEIJING - China’s use of the death penalty remains shrouded in secrecy and still outpaces the rest of the world combined, even after the nation’s execution rate fell sharply over the past ...
Apr 10, 2017
North Korea decries US carrier dispatch as parliament meets
PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - North Korea’s parliament convened Tuesday amid heightened tensions on the divided peninsula, with the United States and South Korea cond...
Apr 10, 2017
Trump Jr nixes 2018 NY bid, but could run for office someday
NEW YORK - Donald Trump Jr., rumoured to be eyeing a move to follow his father’s footsteps into politics, will not be a candidate for governor of New York next year but is not ruling out a possi...
Apr 10, 2017
Oregon set to shield marijuana user data from US officials
SALEM, Ore. - Oregon state lawmakers who fear heightened marijuana enforcement by federal agents overwhelmingly approved Monday a proposal to protect pot users from having their identities or cannabis...
Apr 10, 2017
