Category Archives: World
Chef Michael Chiarello arrested for DUI, drug possession
YOUNTVILLE, Calif. - Celebrity chef Michael Chiarello has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and drug possession in Napa County. The California Highway Patrol says Ch...
Nov 03, 2016
Monitor: Drought ends in nearly one-fourth of California
SAN FRANCISCO - A heavy dousing of autumn rain in Northern California has lifted a quarter of the state out of drought, the highest percentage in more than three years, according to a new federal repo...
Nov 03, 2016
Trial ordered for suspect in California mayor pie protest
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A man charged with hitting Sacramento, California, Mayor Kevin Johnson in the face with a coconut cream pie has been ordered to stand trial on a charge of assaulting a public offi...
Nov 03, 2016
Clergy join Dakota Access pipeline protesters for ceremony
CANNON BALL, N.D. - Hundreds of clergy of various faiths joined protests Thursday against the Dakota Access oil pipeline in southern North Dakota, singing hymns, marching and ceremonially burning a co...
Nov 03, 2016
A hairy situation: Rescuers save cat stuck on water tower
LASALLE, Colo. - A cat stuck for days on a converted water tower didn’t have to cash in one of its nine lives. The Greeley Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/2ffQ6HS ) that rescuers on Wednesday plu...
Nov 03, 2016
Man convicted of killing Marine's wife in California
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A former Marine who confessed to strangling a 19-year-old woman and tossing her body into a California desert mine shaft has been convicted of first-degree murder. Twenty-seve...
Nov 03, 2016
Scary 2016 election attracts its 1st actual ghoul candidate
BANGOR, Maine - An election cycle some have described as a fright appears to have attracted its first actual ghoul. Signs are popping up around Bangor, Maine, advertising the campaign of Pennywise, th...
Nov 03, 2016
Trump tells backers to 'watch the polls' - but signups slow
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump regularly warns his crowds to closely watch polling places to prevent Democrats from stealing the election. But his campaign has failed to enlist many to serve as official po...
Nov 03, 2016
Feds investigating Sandusky fine Penn State a record $2.4M
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Federal officials looking into how Penn State handled complaints about Jerry Sandusky hit the school on Thursday with a record $2.4 million fine, saying it violated requirements abou...
Nov 03, 2016
Nightmare: Election dispute goes to 8-member Supreme Court
WASHINGTON - What happens if America wakes up on Nov. 9 to another undecided, hotly disputed presidential election? What if the outcome turns on the razor-thin margin in one or two states, one candida...
Nov 03, 2016