Category Archives: World
'Wrong must be corrected' for black man killed by police
BATON ROUGE, La. - A black man killed in front of a convenience store was remembered Friday as the “meaning of southern hospitality” and a good man whose death at the hands of two white po...
Jul 15, 2016
France calls up reservist forces after deadly Nice rampage
NICE, France - France called up thousands of reserve security forces Friday as authorities tried to determine why a Tunisian deliveryman known only to be a petty criminal took the wheel of a 19-ton tr...
Jul 15, 2016
Republican panel leaves anti-Trump move gasping for breath
CLEVELAND - The struggle by conservatives for an 11th-hour derailment of Donald Trump’s drive for the Republican presidential nomination is gasping for breath, although a leader of the effort is...
Jul 15, 2016
The Nice victims: A boy, a businessman, a police official
The Bastille Day crowd on the waterfront in Nice, France, was a festive mixture of French locals and foreign visitors. The truck that slammed into them late Thursday, apparently intent on hitting as m...
Jul 15, 2016
Father, son from Texas among France truck attack victims
HOUSTON - A man and his 11-year-old son from the Austin area were among the dozens of people killed during the truck attack in Nice, France, relatives said Friday. Sean Copeland, 51, and his son, Brod...
Jul 15, 2016
Ailes seeks to move Carlson case to arbitration
NEW YORK - Fox News chief Roger Ailes is seeking to move former anchor Gretchen Carlson’s harassment case against him from a New Jersey court to a closed arbitration panel in New York. Carlson, ...
Jul 15, 2016
Ex-Oklahoma sheriff pleads no contest to deputy memo charge
TULSA, Okla. - A former Oklahoma sheriff who was friends with a reserve deputy who shot and killed an unarmed man last year pleaded no contest Friday to failing to release key information about how th...
Jul 15, 2016
When Army career ended in disgrace, gunman was ostracized
DALLAS - He was disarmed in the middle of a war zone and placed under 24-hour escort. The most humiliating part was that everyone in Micah Johnson’s unit in Afghanistan knew why: He was accused ...
Jul 15, 2016
US, Russia agree on 'steps' in Syria, but won't say what
MOSCOW - The United States and Russia agreed Friday on new steps they said could make a difference in Syria’s relentless civil war, hinting at an improbable military partnership that has been th...
Jul 15, 2016
Mickelson shines in wind and rain, keeps British Open lead
TROON, Scotland - Phil Mickelson wore a black rain suit that he didn’t need until he approached the far end of Royal Troon and already had stretched his lead. Henrik Stenson opened the curtains ...
Jul 15, 2016
