Category Archives: World

ISTANBUL - Authorities in Turkey detained 11 pro-Kurdish lawmakers early Friday as part of ongoing terror-related investigations, including both party co-chairs and other senior officials, the Interio...

The Battle of Midway was a major turning point in World War II’s Pacific theatre. The remote atoll where thousands died is now a delicate sanctuary for millions of seabirds, and a new battle is ...

NEW YORK - Susan Faludi’s memoir about her father and a fictional saga about a Southern family have won $50,000 prizes. Faludi’s “In the Darkroom” won the Kirkus Prize for nonf...

YOUNTVILLE, Calif. - Celebrity chef Michael Chiarello has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and drug possession in Napa County. The California Highway Patrol says Ch...

SAN FRANCISCO - A heavy dousing of autumn rain in Northern California has lifted a quarter of the state out of drought, the highest percentage in more than three years, according to a new federal repo...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A man charged with hitting Sacramento, California, Mayor Kevin Johnson in the face with a coconut cream pie has been ordered to stand trial on a charge of assaulting a public offi...

CANNON BALL, N.D. - Hundreds of clergy of various faiths joined protests Thursday against the Dakota Access oil pipeline in southern North Dakota, singing hymns, marching and ceremonially burning a co...

LASALLE, Colo. - A cat stuck for days on a converted water tower didn’t have to cash in one of its nine lives. The Greeley Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/2ffQ6HS ) that rescuers on Wednesday plu...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A former Marine who confessed to strangling a 19-year-old woman and tossing her body into a California desert mine shaft has been convicted of first-degree murder. Twenty-seve...

BANGOR, Maine - An election cycle some have described as a fright appears to have attracted its first actual ghoul. Signs are popping up around Bangor, Maine, advertising the campaign of Pennywise, th...