Category Archives: World

MIAMI - Forecasters say another tropical depression has formed in the Florida Straits and is expected to produce some rain over the southern half of the Florida peninsula and the Florida Keys. The U.S...

NEW ORLEANS - Authorities say a woman has been rescued and two men remain missing after a small plane crashed into a lake near a New Orleans airport. New Orleans Police Department spokeswoman Dawne Ma...

BOGOTA - Top commanders from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia are preparing to gather one final time in mid-September to ratify a peace accord reached this week with government negotiators a...

NEW YORK - A woman who caused chaos aboard a subway train by releasing a container of crickets and worms says it was all a prank. Zaida Pugh tells the New York Post (http://nyp.st/2bn2eUc ) she had th...

MAYFIELD, Ky. - A McDonald’s franchisee says he’s been unable to substantiate claims by two customers who reported finding worms in food at the fast-food chain’s restaurants in two K...

NEW ORLEANS - Actor, writer and director John Schneider, known for his past role on the “Dukes of Hazzard” and current role on “The Haves and the Have Nots,” thought the first ...

HOUSTON - A Harvard Law School study reports that racial bias, over-aggressive prosecutions and inadequate representation for poor defendants plagues Harris County’s handling of death penalty ca...

HARTFORD, Conn. - In the days after the June 12 attack on the Pulse nightclub, other victims of mass shootings reached out to the survivors and their families to ensure that mistakes made with charity...

The more than 430 fundraisers posted on the GoFundMe website after the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando have exposed weaknesses inherent in these popular do-it-yourself charity campaigns: w...

DURANT, Miss. - The Latest on the killing of two nuns in Mississippi (all times local): 5:30 p.m. A sheriff says the man arrested in the killing of two nuns confessed to authorities. Holmes County She...