Category Archives: World
Immigrants who challenged in-state tuition policy win case
ATLANTA - A judge says the Georgia university system must allow immigrants to pay in-state tuition if they’ve been granted temporary permission by the federal government to stay in the U.S. Geor...
Jan 03, 2017
Plot twists, suspense mark George Lucas' plans for museum
SAN FRANCISCO - George Lucas is no stranger to epic struggles on the big screen, but he didn’t expect one off-camera when it came to his art collection. For nearly a decade, the filmmaker has tr...
Jan 03, 2017
Police investigating accidental poisoning that killed 4 kids
DALLAS - A criminal investigation is underway into an apparent accidental poisoning involving a professional-grade pesticide that left four children dead and an Amarillo woman in critical condition, p...
Jan 03, 2017
Stadium manager says protesters had tickets to Vikings game
MINNEAPOLIS - A man and a woman who hung from the rafters during a Vikings game and unfurled a banner in protest of the Dakota Access oil pipeline entered U.S. Bank Stadium with tickets, and stadium o...
Jan 03, 2017
Sea turtles rescued off Cape Cod moved to Florida Keys
MARATHON, Fla. - Fifteen critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are warming up at the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital after being rescued from cold waters off Cape Cod, Massachusetts...
Jan 03, 2017
George Kosana, sheriff in 'Night of the Living Dead,' dies
George Kosana, who played the beefy Sheriff McClelland in the 1968 cult zombie film, “Night of the Living Dead,” has died. He was 81. Longtime friend John Russo said Kosana was found dead ...
Jan 03, 2017
Correction: Great Lakes-Nuclear Waste story
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - In a story Jan. 3 about a proposal to store nuclear waste underground near Lake Huron, The Associated Press incorrectly identified an organization that opposes the plan. The gro...
Jan 03, 2017

Student: Girl slammed to ground was trying to break up fight
ROLESVILLE, N.C. - A student who was slammed to the ground by a police officer at a North Carolina high school was trying to break up a fight involving her sister, said the 15-year-old who posted vide...
Jan 03, 2017

Virginia says drugs are safe, execution should continue
RICHMOND, Va. - The drugs from a secret compounding pharmacy that Virginia plans to use in a lethal injection this month were appropriately prepared and tested and any argument that they are subpar is...
Jan 03, 2017
Divers looking for Colorado boy, 6, find body in frozen pond
AURORA, Colo. - Divers looking for a 6-year-old boy who apparently wandered away from his suburban Denver home on New Year’s Eve found the body of a child in a frozen pond Tuesday. The body has ...
Jan 03, 2017