Category Archives: World
Judge: Dead NY Rangers player a victim of organized sports
NEW YORK - A New York Rangers player who died in 2011 of an accidental overdose of prescription painkillers and a minor league hockey player who supplied him with pills are victims of organized sports...
Oct 6, 2016
For tourists, storm is Hurricane Who Shall Not Be Named
ORLANDO, Fla. - Voldemort couldn’t stop Harry Potter, but Matthew did. Three of the world’s most popular tourist attractions, Universal Studios (home to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter...
Oct 6, 2016
Domingo's LA Opera contract extended through 2021-22
LOS ANGELES - Placido Domingo has renewed his contract as general director of the Los Angeles Opera for three years through the 2021-22 season. The 75-year-old singer joined the company as an artistic...
Oct 6, 2016
Barely half of illegal border crossers caught
SAN DIEGO - Immigration authorities caught just over half of the people who illegally entered the U.S. from Mexico last year, according to a report commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security ...
Oct 6, 2016
Officer acquitted in shooting death of mentally ill man
NORFOLK, Va. - A jury in Virginia on Thursday acquitted a white police officer who had been charged in the shooting death of a mentally ill black man holding a knife. Norfolk police Officer Michael Ed...
Oct 6, 2016
Texas officers find dozens of people held captive in homes
IRVING, Texas - Dozens of people were found being held against their will in what their captives told authorities were drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, police ...
Oct 6, 2016
UN agency agrees to establish world's first aviation climate deal
MONTREAL - The world’s first climate deal aimed at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions from international air travel was overwhelmingly approved Thursday by a United Nations aviation agency...
Oct 6, 2016
Inspirational weekend? Authors hunker down ahead of Matthew
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. - Genre fiction readers: Your next potboiler will likely involve a hurricane. That’s because dozens of indie authors - writers who eschew the traditional publishing world...
Oct 6, 2016
Airlines cancel hundreds of flights as hurricane hits US
Airlines cancelled hundreds of flights for Thursday and again Friday as Hurricane Matthew pelted the Florida coast with high winds and heavy rain. The Fort Lauderdale airport shut down on Thursday mor...
Oct 6, 2016
US wants to strengthen agreement to ban Arctic Ocean fishing
PORTLAND, Maine - The United States is trying to broker an agreement between a host of nations to prohibit unregulated fishing in the international waters of the Arctic Ocean. Such an agreement would ...
Oct 6, 2016
