Category Archives: World
Mom gets 20 to 40 years for death of toddler found in ravine
PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh-area woman who wrote on Facebook that “Mommy loves you, my angel” after her 3-year-old daughter was found dead in a ravine was sentenced Tuesday to 20 to 40 years...
Jan 17, 2017
Hip-hop podcast host charged in fatal NYC concert shooting
NEW YORK - A hip-hop podcast host has been arrested in connection with a shooting at a popular New York City concert venue last year that left a rapper’s bodyguard dead and two people wounded. T...
Jan 17, 2017
Nigerian air force bombs refugee camp, more than 100 dead
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - A Nigerian air force fighter jet on a mission against Boko Haram extremists mistakenly bombed a refugee camp on Tuesday, killing more than 100 refugees and aid workers and woundin...
Jan 17, 2017
World stocks turn lower as investors monitor volatile dollar
HONG KONG - World stocks mostly fell Wednesday after a sharp drop in the dollar shook investor enthusiasm. KEEPING SCORE: In Europe, Germany’s DAX shed 0.1 per cent to 11,535 and Britain’s...
Jan 17, 2017
Markets Right Now: US stocks move slightly lower
NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 11:45 a.m. Stocks are moving slightly lower on Wall Street, led by declines in banks and health care companies. Comerica f...
Jan 17, 2017
Missing hunter located in Alabama jail
ATHENS, Ala. - Searchers spent time looking for a missing hunter in north Alabama until officers realized he was actually in jail. Relatives of 50-year-old Randy Keith Holt of Hartselle reported the m...
Jan 17, 2017
New prescription: Doctor offices that look like Apple stores
SAN FRANCISCO - After a relative suffered a heart attack a few years ago, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Adrian Aoun got an unsettling look at a health-care system that he diagnosed as an inefficient and...
Jan 17, 2017
Former Klan Grand Dragon to MLK's daughter: I'm sorry
ATLANTA - Scott Shepherd didn’t fire the shot that killed Martin Luther King Jr., but the former Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon says he has always felt remorse toward the family of the slain civil ri...
Jan 17, 2017
Brazil struggles to curb prison violence that has killed 125
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian authorities are scrambling to stop a wave of prison violence that has killed at least 125 inmates in two weeks, many with their heads cut off or their hearts and intestines ...
Jan 17, 2017
Mounting frustration in Damascus amid widespread water cuts
DAMASCUS, Syria - Omar Tarshan had never visited any of Syria’s famous public baths until three weeks ago, when a water shortage in his Damascus neighbourhood forced him to look for an alternati...
Jan 17, 2017
