Category Archives: World

TOKYO - Coastal residents fled to higher ground as a powerful earthquake sent a series of moderate tsunamis toward Japan’s northeastern shore Tuesday and fueled concerns about the Fukushima nucl...

NEW YORK - The three golden elevator doors in the Trump Tower lobby have turned into the most unlikely television feature. C-SPAN is carrying a near-constant video feed across from the elevator bank, ...

EVERETT, Wash. - Court documents say a man who stars in the hit reality TV series “Deadliest Catch” was strangled and suffered a fractured skull during a robbery. The Daily Herald reports ...

MONTESANO, Wash. - Four members of a Washington state family missing since Tuesday have been found walking near a store about 55 miles southwest of Seattle, authorities said Thursday. They were found ...

NEW YORK - Poor communication among police, private security and other personnel contributed to a mass panic that erupted at a New York City airport when loud cheers for Usain Bolt somehow led to a fa...

MADISON, Wis. - Federal judges struck down Wisconsin’s Republican-drawn legislative districts as unconstitutional on Monday, marking a victory for minority Democrats that could force the Legisla...

NEW YORK - The artsy, one-ring Big Apple Circus is filing for bankruptcy protection after four decades of entertaining the world. Circus officials say the troupe, which set up each year at Manhattan&#...

HOUSTON - Former NBA all-star Steve Francis is charged with felony retaliation after prosecutors say he threatened to assault a police officer in the Houston area. Court records show the 39-year-old F...

WICHITA, Kan. - The woman accused of killing a Kansas woman and stealing her baby said in a jailhouse interview that the woman had agreed to give her the child but backed out of the deal at the last m...

CANNON BALL, N.D. - Authorities on Monday defended their decision to douse protesters with water during a skirmish in subfreezing weather near the Dakota Access oil pipeline, and organizers said at le...