Category Archives: World
Box Office Top 20: 'Moana,' 'Fantastic Beasts' rule again
LOS ANGELES - “Moana” and “Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them” continued to dominate the box office over the sleepy post-Thanksgiving weekend. In its second week in theatr...
Dec 05, 2016
Soot swept up: Business unharmed by wildfires set to reopen
GATLINBURG, Tenn. - Chirping and beeping filled the air as Marion Paul fired up her Gatlinburg video arcade Monday, the first time she’s seen her business since deadly wildfires set much of the ...
Dec 05, 2016
Colleagues paint caustic portrait of artist colony founder
SAN FRANCISCO - The founder of a ramshackle Oakland artists’ colony where dozens of people burned to death saw himself as a kind of guru and loved to surround himself with followers but showed c...
Dec 05, 2016
Judge: Prosecutors can use Bill Cosby's deposition at trial
PHILADELPHIA - Damaging testimony that Bill Cosby gave in an accuser’s lawsuit, including admissions that he gave young women drugs and alcohol before sex, can be used at his sex assault trial, ...
Dec 05, 2016
Mistrial declared in black motorist's shooting by officer
CHARLESTON, S.C. - A South Carolina judge declared a mistrial Monday after a jury deadlocked in the murder trial of a white former police officer charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black moto...
Dec 05, 2016
Dylann Roof allowed to hire lawyers back, for now
CHARLESTON, S.C. - A federal judge agreed Monday to let a white man accused of fatally shooting nine black parishioners rehire his attorneys until a verdict is reached, but to remain his own lawyer if...
Dec 05, 2016
Indian actress-turned-politician Jayaram Jayalalithaa dies
CHENNAI, India - Jayaram Jayalalithaa, the hugely popular south Indian actress who later turned to politics and became the highest elected official in the state of Tamil Nadu, has died. She was 68. Sh...
Dec 05, 2016
Man convicted in son's hot-car death gets life, no parole
MARIETTA, Ga. - A judge on Monday sentenced a Georgia man to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury found that he intentionally left his toddler son in a hot SUV to die. J...
Dec 05, 2016
Amazon Go store is checkout free
NEW YORK - Amazon is testing a grocery store model in Seattle that works without checkout lines. Called Amazon Go, shoppers scan their Amazon app when they enter the store, and then sensors register i...
Dec 05, 2016
In bid to fight art fraud, Sotheby's acquires forensic lab
NEW YORK - In bid to fight art fraud, Sotheby’s announced Monday that it had purchased a forensics firm whose founder once helped the auction house belatedly identify a $10 million painting as a...
Dec 05, 2016
