Category Archives: World

After 9 years, quick conviction in Times Square hotel murder
NEW YORK - It took nearly a decade after a prostitute’s battered body was found under a Times Square budget hotel bed for the case to go to trial. But it took only about two hours for jurors to ...
Dec 06, 2016
Church attack survivor recalls loud noise, then darkness
CHARLESTON, S.C. - A survivor of last year’s massacre at a black South Carolina church testified Wednesday that her Bible study group had just closed their eyes and started praying when a loud s...
Dec 06, 2016

Snow geese deaths from mine pit number in the thousands
BUTTE, Mont. - Several thousand snow geese died after a snowstorm forced tens of thousands of the migratory birds to take refuge in the acidic, metal-laden waters of an old open pit mine in Montana la...
Dec 06, 2016
Utah to spend $138,000 to restore famous outlaw's cabin
CIRCLEVILLE, Utah - Utah state officials are going to spend $138,000 to restore a decaying wood cabin in Piute County that has become a tourist spot because it’s believed to be the boyhood home ...
Dec 06, 2016
3 in custody in robbery of wife of Missouri governor-elect
ST. LOUIS - Three teenagers are in custody in the armed robbery of the wife of Missouri Gov.-Elect Eric Greitens, and the former Navy Seal officer who takes office next month said Tuesday it’s a...
Dec 06, 2016
Pipeline opponents ride out storm in shelters, casino
MANDAN, N.D. - Some protesters who have been fighting the Dakota Access pipeline retreated to a nearby casino and area shelters overnight as a blizzard blew through, but many remained at a camp in sou...
Dec 06, 2016
Car crash damages one of nation's oldest churches, from 1775
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A car crash has damaged one of the nation’s oldest churches. WPRI-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2gA5Zsu) the First Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island, sustained damage to ...
Dec 06, 2016
Georgia executes ninth inmate this year, most in US
JACKSON, Ga. - With the execution Tuesday of a man convicted of killing his father-in-law, Georgia has put to death nine inmates this year - more than any other state. William Sallie’s time of d...
Dec 06, 2016

Obama defends counterterrorism plan before handover to Trump
TAMPA, Fla. - Closing out two terms as a president at war, Barack Obama staunchly defended his counterterrorism strategy as one that rejected torture, held to American values and avoided large-scale t...
Dec 06, 2016

Did authorities miss opportunities to prevent tragic fire?
OAKLAND, Calif. - City and state officials fielded years of complaints about dangerous conditions, drugs, neglected children, trash, thefts and squabbles at the illegally converted warehouse where 36 ...
Dec 06, 2016