Category Archives: World

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Facing their second-largest flood in city history, Cedar Rapids leaders and residents pinned their hopes Monday on a 10-mile system of quickly erected flood barriers to protect go...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - An Arkansas legislator who co-sponsored a law aimed in part at preventing authorities from prohibiting the filming of an arrest was arrested Monday after police said he refused to ...

TRENTON, N.J. - The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday began representing a man accused of setting off bombs in New York and New Jersey and injuring more than 30 people. After judges in both sta...

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. - The suspect accused of killing five people at a Macy’s department store confessed to police, court documents said, but his motive remained a mystery Monday as a portrait em...

LOS ANGELES - Herschell Gordon Lewis, the horror filmmaker known as the “godfather of gore,” died Monday at 87. The director of such films as “Blood Feast” and “Two Thous...

LOS ANGELES - Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts are separating after 11 years together. The celebrity couple says in a joint statement Monday they’ve “come to the conclusion that the best way...

CARTAGENA, Colombia - The latest on the signing of a historic peace deal in Colombia (all times local): 6:40 p.m. The signatures done and the speeches given, Colombia’s ceremony for the formal s...

WINSLOW, Ariz. - A life-size bronze tribute statue to the late singer-songwriter Glenn Frey of the Eagles has been installed in the “Standing On The Corner” park in Winslow, Arizona. It jo...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - An intimate letter gangster Al Capone wrote while imprisoned at Alcatraz has sold at auction in Massachusetts for $62,500. Boston-based RR Auction says the winning bid came Monday a...

CARTAGENA, Colombia - Colombia’s government and its largest rebel movement signed a historic peace accord Monday in an emotional ceremony that seeks to put an end to a half-century of combat and...