Category Archives: World

MONTPELIER, Vt. - A Vermont inmate who once hatched a plot in a New Mexico prison to kill pop singer Justin Bieber was behind an anthrax scare at a courthouse where he was sentenced for killing a 15-y...

SEATTLE - Paleontologists with Seattle’s Burke Museum have unearthed the bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex that lived more than 66 million years ago, including a rare nearly complete 4-foot long skul...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration announced Thursday it will phase out its use of some private prisons, affecting thousands of federal inmates and immediately sending shares of the two publicly tr...

NEW YORK - Gawker is going to shut down. A Gawker report Thursday said that Nick Denton, Gawker’s founder, told staffers that Gawker.com was ending on Thursday afternoon. Univision, the Spanish-...

NEW ORLEANS - Former NFL star Darren Sharper was sentenced Thursday to more than 18 years in prison for drugging women in order to rape them - double the sentence recommended by prosecutors. One of Sh...

NEW YORK - Gawker to shut down next week after nearly 14 years less than 3 months after declaring bankruptcy. More coming. The Associated Press

BISMARCK, N.D. - Developers of a $3.8 billion, four-state oil pipeline have agreed to halt construction near an American Indian reservation in southern North Dakota until a federal court hearing next ...

LAS VEGAS - A veteran pilot has been released from the hospital after he was hurt when a fighter jet went down after completing an exercise with a military weapons school at an Air Force base near Las...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday nominated Kathleen Kane’s former top deputy to step in as attorney general for the remaining months of her term on the heels of her conviction and res...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A merchant has filed a lawsuit against the city of Memphis over a $10 cover charge to enter Beale Street. The Commercial Appeal (http://bit.ly/2bfO9ep ) reports that Lucille Catron fi...