Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - A woman in New York says she hasn’t stopped crying since an airline mistook her 5-year-old for another child and flew him to the wrong city. Maribel Martinez tells New York’s Da...

BILLINGS, Mont. - Montana re-opened portions of the Yellowstone River and most of its tributaries Thursday, but it kept a popular stretch of the waterway closed to all recreational activity because of...

Dallas police Chief David Brown announced his retirement Thursday, two months after his impassioned response to a sniper attack that killed five officers made him the face of a city reeling from trage...

WASHINGTON - Engineers have created clothing for a warming world - a fabric that allows your body heat to escape far better than other materials do. It hasn’t been worn or tested by humans, so o...

MEXICO CITY - President Enrique Pena Nieto’s meeting with Mexico’s most-disliked man is turning into a public relations disaster for a leader already struggling with historically low popul...

Chicago saw its deadliest month in two decades in August, recording 90 homicides for the month, the city’s police department said Thursday. The last time the city recorded 90 killings in a month...

The last of three men tried and acquitted in an infamous civil rights slaying in Alabama has died. An obituary says Namon O’Neal Hoggle of Selma, Alabama, died Tuesday. He was 81, and services w...

DEKLE BEACH, Fla. - The first hurricane to hit Florida in more than a decade wiped away beachside buildings and toppled trees onto homes Friday before plowing inland on a path that could send it rolli...

Los Angeles prosecutors say Tom Sizemore has been charged with three misdemeanours in connection with his arrest in a domestic violence case. The city’s attorney’s office says the “B...

LOS ANGELES - Actor Jackie Chan, film editor Anne V. Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentarian Frederick Wiseman are getting honorary Academy Awards. The film academy announced Thursd...