Category Archives: World
81-year-old Italy native first to buy legal pot in Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Possibly the unlikeliest customer of all became the first person to legally buy marijuana in Alaska’s largest city. Anna Ercoli, 81, pulled into Arctic Herbery’s small ...
Dec 15, 2016
Dukakis stumbles while picking up trash, requires stitches
BOSTON - Former Democratic presidential contender and Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis is feeling the sting of doing a good deed. The 83-year-old tells The Boston Globe (http://bit.ly/2gGuB1Y ) he w...
Dec 15, 2016
Nurse who murdered 2 elderly Australians jailed for 36 years
SYDNEY, Australia - A nurse at an Australian nursing home who gave lethal insulin injections to two elderly residents who had complained about her was sentenced on Friday to 36 years in prison, the se...
Dec 15, 2016
North Carolina upheaval: GOP bids to limit next gov's power
RALEIGH, N.C. - North Carolina’s Republican-dominated legislature took extraordinary steps Thursday to reduce the powers of a Democratic governor-elect, defying raucous protests and threatened l...
Dec 15, 2016
Lawrence Colburn dies; helped end Vietnam's My Lai massacre
Lawrence Manley Colburn, a helicopter gunner in the Vietnam War who helped end the slaughter of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese villagers by U.S. troops at My Lai, has died. He was 67. Lisa Colburn, sp...
Dec 15, 2016
California sex offender found guilty of murdering 4 women
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Jurors took just an hour Thursday to convict a California sex offender of killing four women - crimes that were mostly committed while he was being tracked by GPS and that now make...
Dec 15, 2016
Rare plant named after rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix
SAN DIEGO - California researchers have named a newly discovered rare plant after Jimi Hendrix. The plant, found in Baja California, Mexico, has been christened Dudleya hendrixii , or “Hendrix&#...
Dec 15, 2016
Judge blocks Texas from requiring fetal remains be buried
AUSTIN, Texas - A federal judge on Thursday blocked until at least next month hotly debated Texas rules mandating burial or cremation of fetal remains that were set to go into effect within days. The ...
Dec 15, 2016
Feds deny leases for Minnesota mine; company to press ahead
MINNEAPOLIS - Two longstanding mineral rights leases that are critical for a proposed large underground copper-nickel mine upstream from the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeast...
Dec 15, 2016
John Glenn to be 9th person to lie in state at Ohio capitol
COLUMBUS, Ohio - When John Glenn lies in state at the Ohio Statehouse on Friday, he will become the ninth person to do so and will join a list that includes Abraham Lincoln. The public viewing for Gle...
Dec 15, 2016