Category Archives: World

WACO, Texas - One juror in a Central Texas robbery trial apparently forgot to tell her family she’d be working late deliberating in the case, prompting relatives to file a missing person report....

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California’s largest public-employee union announced Saturday that it had reached a contract agreement with Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration. If workers ratify the de...

LOS ANGELES - Police investigating a notorious gang in a city on California’s central coast issued a fake press release that the chief credited with saving two men by deceiving gang members who ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Universities and colleges in several states are considering labeling themselves “sanctuary campuses” amid fears from immigrant students. College administrators in New M...

AUSTIN, Texas - More than a year after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made firearms, including openly holstered weapons, legal in more places in the state, disputes remain over where guns are allowed - much t...

LOS ANGELES - In a story Dec. 3 about the fatal stabbing of a professor, The Associated Press misidentified the professor’s school in the first paragraph in some versions. The professor was from...

NEW YORK - As a prominent advocate for human rights, the poet Rose Styron knew well the abuses in Fidel Castro’s Cuba and the censorship of artists and publications with dissenting views. But wh...

POWELL, Ohio - The oldest known gorilla living in a zoo is doing well after a surgical biopsy ahead of her 60th birthday on Dec. 22. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said Saturday that veterinarians succ...

NEW YORK - The chef credited with inventing General Tso’s Chicken, a world-famous Chinese dish smothered in a sweet sauce that was never a staple in China, has died in Taiwan at 98. Peng Chang-k...

ROME - Italian voters dealt Premier Matteo Renzi a stinging defeat on his reforms referendum, triggering his resignation announcement and galvanizing the populist, opposition 5-Star Movement’s d...