Category Archives: World
Mother arrested after 2-year-old son shoots 1-year-old girl
BATON ROUGE, La. - Police have arrested a woman in Louisiana after her 1-year-old daughter was accidentally shot in the face by her 2-year-old son. Baton Rouge Police say 23-year-old Crystal Kinchen w...
Nov 16, 2016
Putin withdraws Russia from International Criminal Court
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Wednesday to withdraw Russia from the International Criminal Court, which rules on such grave charges as genocide and crimes against humanity....
Nov 16, 2016
California judge rejects charges involving major escort site
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A California judge has agreed to give the state attorney general’s office more time to persuade him that the operators of what she called “the world’s top online...
Nov 16, 2016
Unusual tiff between Fox's Bill O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly
NEW YORK - Bill O’Reilly is questioning his Fox News Channel colleague Megyn Kelly’s loyalty for writing in her just-published memoir and talking about accusations that former Fox chief Ro...
Nov 16, 2016
New York dad who killed toddler, burned her body gets prison
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A New York man who killed his toddler daughter, burned her body and dumped her remains in a waterway has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Twenty-five-year-old Ryan Lawren...
Nov 16, 2016
Wisconsin to appeal to feds over 'Making a Murderer' inmate
MADISON, Wis. - A federal judge told Wisconsin prison officials on Wednesday that they must release an inmate featured in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” by Friday evening. It’...
Nov 16, 2016
Minnesota officer charged in black man's killing
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Minnesota police officer has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the killing of a black man in a St. Paul suburb. Prosecutors announced the charge against St. Anthony p...
Nov 16, 2016
Ancient latrines, a lucky horse: New finds at Circus Maximus
ROME - Six years of excavations have given Rome a new tourist attraction in Circus Maximus , the sprawling valley where chariot races once delighted the ancient city’s denizens. The archaeologic...
Nov 16, 2016
Bombs strike rebel-held Aleppo and northern Syria, 54 dead
BEIRUT - Bombs rained down on rebel-held eastern Aleppo for a second straight day Wednesday, pounding a district that houses several medical facilities, including the central blood bank, and forcing S...
Nov 16, 2016
Nobel no-show: Dylan not coming to Stockholm to get prize
COPENHAGEN - Bob Dylan won’t be coming to Stockholm to pick up his 2016 Nobel Prize for literature at the Dec. 10 prize ceremony. The Swedish Academy said Wednesday that Dylan told them “h...
Nov 16, 2016
