Category Archives: World

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - A school bus driver had no drugs or alcohol in his system when he careened off a road and smashed into a tree, killing six elementary schoolchildren, police said Wednesday. Chatta...

SALT LAKE CITY - Officials settled a deadlocked race for a spot on a city council in suburban Salt Lake City by drawing names from a pilgrim hat and flipping a coin - a decision-by-chance that Utah an...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Charlotte’s public school system is investigating allegations that a kindergarten teacher singled out a 5-year-old student for harassment because he’s Muslim. The Council o...

EAST MORICHES, N.Y. - An ailing humpback whale that became grounded on a sandbar in a bay was euthanized on Wednesday, three days after rescuers first tried to set it free. The death of the whale, whi...

RALEIGH, N.C. - A conservative group filed a request Wednesday for an urgent hearing on North Carolina voters who cast ballots through same-day registration, while the state NAACP criticized the legal...

NEW YORK - At age 99, a woman named America has become a U.S. citizen. America Maria Hernandez, who was born in Colombia in 1917 and was brought to the U.S. by one of her daughters in 1988, signed her...

STUART, Fla. - The Florida college student accused of randomly killing a couple and chewing on the dead man’s face had no detectable hallucinogenic drugs in his system, according an FBI toxicolo...

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve officials earlier this month believed it would be appropriate to raise a key interest rate “relatively soon,” with some arguing for a hike at the Fed’s n...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wal-Mart intentionally failed to pay hundreds of truck drivers in California the minimum wage for duties such as inspecting and washing their vehicles, a federal jury decided Wednesday...

WASHINGTON - China pushed back Wednesday against President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to use sanctions to win back a competitive trade advantage for the United States. On the campaign trail, Tr...