Category Archives: World
US court blocks Arizona ban on groups collecting ballots
PHOENIX - A federal appeals court has blocked an Arizona law making it a felony to collect early ballots, a win for the Democratic get-out-the-vote effort shortly before Election Day. Friday’s o...
Nov 04, 2016
Captive's rescue leads to break in grisly quadruple slaying
CHESNEE, S.C. - For 13 years, the relatives came together periodically to grieve one of South Carolina’s grisliest mass shootings and compare leads with stumped investigators. On Sunday, they ga...
Nov 04, 2016
2 New York police sergeants shot, 1 killed; suspect dead
NEW YORK - Two police sergeants were shot, one fatally, in an exchange of gunfire on Friday with a man suspected of breaking into a woman’s home, authorities said. The gunman also was killed. Go...
Nov 04, 2016
University: Former student stabs 3 people, including himself
PISCATAWAY, N.J. - A former student at Rutgers University returned to its business school and stabbed a faculty member, another student and then himself on Friday, officials said. The university sent ...
Nov 04, 2016
Colorado city uses toilet paper to help repair cracked roads
LITTLETON, Colo. - It’s not pranksters or vandals who placed toilet paper all over the streets of Littleton, Colorado, it was city workers. The Denver Post reports (http://dpo.st/2e9pIlw ) that ...
Nov 04, 2016
Indonesia president: Political meddling behind Jakarta clash
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia’s president blamed political meddling for violence in the capital Jakarta on Friday that killed one person and injured seven following a protest by hard-line Musli...
Nov 04, 2016
Los Angeles prosecutors charge body-shaming Playboy model
Los Angeles prosecutors have charged a Playboy model with invasion of privacy for taking a photo of a naked woman in a gym locker room and posting it to social media. The Snapchat post included an ins...
Nov 04, 2016
The Undecideds: They're out there, and so very conflicted
WASHINGTON - After all the sound, fury, fact, fallacy, bluster and blarney of the 2016 presidential campaign, there still are undecided voters out there. Really. And they’re not just people who&...
Nov 04, 2016
Jury: Rolling Stone's rape story defamed university official
RICHMOND, Va. - Rolling Stone magazine, its publisher and a reporter defamed a University of Virginia administrator who sued them for $7.5 million over a discredited story about a gang rape at a frate...
Nov 04, 2016
Man claiming to be shower victim testifies in Sandusky case
BELLEFONTE, Pa. - A man who claims he was the young sexual-assault victim seen with former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky in a campus shower 15 years ago, a central episode in the ...
Nov 04, 2016
