Category Archives: World
California tells Uber to stop rides in self-driving cars
SAN FRANCISCO - Hours after Uber began picking up San Francisco passengers in self-driving cars Wednesday, California regulators warned the ride-hailing company to stop immediately and get a special s...
Dec 14, 2016
CDC issues Texas city warning for pregnant women after Zika
DALLAS - Pregnant women should consider postponing travel to Brownsville, Texas, because of concerns about mosquitoes there spreading the Zika virus, federal health officials said Wednesday. The warni...
Dec 14, 2016
Separated conjoined twins meet for first time since surgery
PALO ALTO, Calif. - The conjoined California twins that were separated last week following a 17-hour marathon surgery have been reunited for the first time since the operation. Eva and Erika Sandoval ...
Dec 14, 2016
73-year-old killed by police had crucifix but no gun
LOS ANGELES - A 73-year-old man with dementia fatally shot by police had a crucifix - not a gun, as officers were led to believe, Bakersfield police said Wednesday. A coroner found the plastic crucifi...
Dec 14, 2016
Bernard Fox, Dr. Bombay on 'Bewitched,' dies at 89
LOS ANGELES - Bernard Fox, the mustachioed actor known to TV viewers as Dr. Bombay on “Bewitched” and Col. Crittendon on “Hogan’s Heroes,” has died. He was 89. Harlan Bol...
Dec 14, 2016
Attorneys want charges against Minnesota officer dismissed
MINNEAPOLIS - Attorneys for a Minnesota police officer who killed Philando Castile during a traffic stop in July are asking that charges against him be dismissed, saying Castile was negligent in his o...
Dec 14, 2016
Exxon Mobil names Woods chairman, CEO to replace Tillerson
DALLAS - Exxon Mobil Corp. will promote insider Darren Woods to chairman and CEO, replacing Rex Tillerson, who is leaving the oil giant after President-elect Donald Trump picked him to become secretar...
Dec 14, 2016
Tapestry from Hitler's Eagle's Nest returning to Germany
DALLAS - Growing up, Cathy Hinz and her five siblings would run up and down the stairs at their Minneapolis home, one hand on the banister, the other skimming a memento hanging on the wall that their ...
Dec 14, 2016
New autopsy: man in police struggle died of asphyxiation
BALTIMORE - An independent autopsy on a man who had a fatal encounter with Baltimore police says he died of asphyxiation while being restrained, not of a heart condition as the state’s autopsy f...
Dec 14, 2016
Ex-Bulger associate arraigned in armoured truck guard killing
WORCESTER, Mass. - An 80-year-old former associate of ex-Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the 1991 fatal shooting of an armoured truck guard. Ralph D...
Dec 14, 2016