Category Archives: World
Adam West to sell Batman-themed paintings he's created
KETCHUM, Idaho - The actor who portrayed the tights-clad Batman in the 1960s TV series is selling paintings he has created of villains from the show at an art gallery in the central Idaho resort town ...
Dec 19, 2016
US FDA clears ovarian cancer drug for hard-to-treat disease
WASHINGTON - U.S. health officials have approved a new option for some women battling ovarian cancer: a drug that targets a genetic mutation seen in a subset of hard-to-treat tumors. The Food and Drug...
Dec 19, 2016
Report: DEA records show W. Va. flooded with painkillers
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in just six years, a period when 1,728 people fatally overdosed on these two painkillers, acco...
Dec 19, 2016
Witness to an assassination: AP photographer captures attack
ANKARA, Turkey - The event seemed routine, the opening of an exhibit of photographs of Russia. So when a man in a dark suit and tie pulled out a gun, I was stunned and thought it was a theatrical flou...
Dec 19, 2016
Officials: Native dreamcatchers used in meth smuggling bid
COLUMBUS, N.M. - A Mexican woman tried to smuggle liquid methamphetamine into the U.S. by hiding it inside Native American-style dreamcatchers when she crossed the border into New Mexico over the week...
Dec 19, 2016
Obama pardons 78, shortens the sentence for 153
HONOLULU - President Barack Obama has pardoned 78 people and shortened the sentence of 153 others convicted of federal crimes, the greatest number of individual clemencies in a single day by any presi...
Dec 19, 2016
Police: Truck attack that killed 12 in Berlin 'intentional'
BERLIN - The driver who rammed a truck into a crowded Christmas market in the heart of the German capital, killing at least 12 people and injuring nearly 50, did so intentionally, police said Tuesday....
Dec 19, 2016
Judge who gave Brock Turner 6 months cleared of misconduct
SAN FRANCISCO - A California judge was cleared of misconduct Monday for sentencing a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on campus, a ...
Dec 19, 2016
Correction: Katrina-Police Shootings story
NEW ORLEANS - In a story Dec. 19 about $13.3 million in settlements for four killings by New Orleans police, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of the brother of one of the victims. Th...
Dec 19, 2016
Swiss police: 3 injured in gunman's attack at Zurich mosque
ZURICH - A gunman dressed in black stormed into the prayer hall of a mosque frequented by Somali immigrants and opened fire, wounding three people before fleeing, a Zurich police spokesman said Monday...
Dec 19, 2016
