Category Archives: World
Officials: Customs system outage causes waits at airports
WASHINGTON - U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a statement Monday saying a processing system outage caused delays at various airports. CBP officers continued processing international traveller...
Jan 02, 2017
Amber Alert: New Mexico boy found OK; dad flees into Mexico
LA MESA, N.M. - A 2-year-old boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert when his father fled with him after allegedly beating the child’s grandfather and torching his mobile home has been found u...
Jan 02, 2017
Forest fire destroys homes in hills above Chilean port city
SANTIAGO, Chile - Fire driven by strong winds swept over forest land in the hills outside the Chilean port of Valparaiso on Monday, destroying dozens of homes, injuring at least 19 people and sending ...
Jan 02, 2017
SpaceX finds source of rocket explosion, plans new launch
LOS ANGELES - SpaceX plans to resume flights as early as next week after finding the cause of an explosion that destroyed a rocket and satellite on a Florida launch pad in September. The Hawthorne, Ca...
Jan 02, 2017
Quick decisions meant life or death in Southeastern storms
As an apparent tornado bore down on them, seven people in a mobile home in southeast Alabama made a life-or-death decision: Three ran into one bathroom for shelter and four ran in the opposite directi...
Jan 02, 2017
South Texas fossil could be reptile that swam 90M years ago
DEL RIO, Texas - A fossil found in limestone along a remote South Texas riverbed could be that of a dolphin-like reptile that swam in oceans 90 million years ago, according to paleontologists. The dis...
Jan 02, 2017
Slain Pennsylvania trooper is recalled as a model officer
MARTINSBURG, Pa. - A state police trooper who was shot to death while responding to a domestic incident three days ago in rural central Pennsylvania was remembered Monday as a model officer. Gov. Tom ...
Jan 02, 2017
Round-the-clock federal manhunt underway for escaped inmate
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. - A round-the-clock state and federal manhunt is underway for an inmate who escaped from a Rhode Island detention centre. The Wyatt Correctional Center warden says 35-year-old form...
Jan 02, 2017
'Rogue One' tops box office for third straight weekend
NEW YORK - The new year at the box office is starting where 2016 left off: with Disney on top. The “Star Wars” spinoff “Rogue One” led the box office for the third straight wee...
Jan 02, 2017
4 children die in Texas gas poisoning; others injured
AMARILLO, Texas - A poisonous gas believed to have been released when someone tried to wash away a pesticide that had been sprayed under a Texas home killed four children and left six other people hos...
Jan 02, 2017
