Category Archives: World

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A robber in Virginia ruined his own getaway - first by breaking his leg in a jump off a balcony, and then by calling the authorities to help him. Police say 21-year-old Leoul Yosef w...

PIERRE, S.D. - South Dakota’s Republican governor on Friday vetoed a pair of bills that would have loosened restrictions on carrying concealed guns in the conservative state. Gov. Dennis Daugaar...

AMHERST, Mass. - Amherst College has whittled its list of possible new athletic mascots to five and, sorry, rodent fans, the Hamsters didn’t make the cut. Hamsters was on the list of 30 semifina...

PORTLAND, Maine - It all came down to a missing comma, and not just any one. And it’s reignited a longstanding debate over whether the punctuation is necessary. A federal appeals court decided t...

DETROIT - Police say a man arrested in the shootings of two Detroit police officers is now a “prime suspect” in the death of a college officer. Detroit Chief James Craig says DNA evidence ...

SALEM, Ore. - An Oregon man who gained notoriety in 1978 when he became the first U.S. man to be tried for raping his wife while they were living together has been convicted of sexually assaulting two...

DUBLIN - Performers dressed as colorful creatures from Irish myth and legend have danced down the chilly streets of Dublin as Ireland commemorates its national saint in a St. Patrick’s Day parad...

CASTRIES, Saint Lucia - Derek Walcott, a Nobel prize-winning poet known for capturing the essence of his native Caribbean, died Friday on the island of St. Lucia. He was 87. “Derek Alton Walcott...

TOKYO - Japanese ruling and opposition parties on Friday handed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a proposal urging his government to write a special one-time law that would allow Emperor Akihito to abdicate....

JERUSALEM - As the world moves toward an era of self-driving cars, Israel is positioning itself to be the Detroit of the future. The country has emerged as a global leader in the fast-growing field of...