Category Archives: World

LOS ANGELES - At age 23, Carol Kane was fresh off a Best Actress Oscar nomination with no prospects on the horizon. The phone hadn’t rung for a year, she said. Then Gene Wilder called. “Ou...

NEW ORLEANS - It’s been 11 years since the wind, rain and subsequent levee breaks associated with Hurricane Katrina deluged New Orleans. On Monday, officials marked the occasion with wreath-layi...

DURANT, Miss. - A Mississippi prosecutor said she hasn’t decided whether to seek the death penalty for a man charged with killing two nuns who dedicated their lives to helping people in one of t...

LOS ANGELES - A former Boeing manager has been sentenced in Los Angeles to more than three years in prison for possessing child pornography discovered during an unrelated espionage investigation. Judg...

NEW YORK - The FBI is warning state officials to boost their election security in light of evidence that hackers targeted related data systems in two states. In a confidential “flash” aler...

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. - Often called Hillary Clinton’s second daughter, Huma Abedin is a deeply trusted aide who is rarely far apart from the Democratic presidential nominee. She’s also a conf...

BLACKSBURG, Va. - Virginia Tech Police say they are investigating after dozens of people in the campus community received a threatening email message. Tech Police said in a statement Monday that the e...

LIVINGSTON, Mont. - Tens of thousands of dead fish have closed Montana’s Yellowstone River and stirred new worries Monday about lasting impacts to the region’s lucrative outdoors industry....

NEW YORK - Gene Wilder was terrific when he was calm and collected. But when he lost it, he was transcendent. Often playing opposite enormous, big performers like Zero Mostel and Richard Pryor, Wilder...

DURHAM, N.C. - Wildin Acosta had grabbed his book bag and left the house, and was just about to get in his car to drive to school in January when two men approached him. They asked his name, then flas...