Category Archives: World
1960s pop singer Bobby Vee has died at age 73
MINNEAPOLIS - Pop idol Bobby Vee, the boyish, grinning 1960s singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 plane crash that killed rock ‘n&...
Oct 24, 2016
Report: Tennessee man died after riding Disney's Star Tours
ORLANDO, Fla. - Authorities say a 67-year-old Tennessee tourist died after riding Star Tours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. The September death of the Memphis, Tennessee, man was recorded in a l...
Oct 24, 2016
Obama campaigns in Nevada, visits California
SAN DIEGO - President Barack Obama is stepping up the pace of his campaign to boost Hillary Clinton as his successor while pushing as well for Democrats to retake the Senate, visiting tightly conteste...
Oct 24, 2016
Police: RV containing pot-laced candy catches fire on bridge
PENNSVILLE TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Police say a pot advocacy company’s RV carrying marijuana-laced candy burst into flames on a bridge that connects New Jersey and Delaware, causing lane closures and t...
Oct 24, 2016
Hayden a symbol of when youth took history into own hands
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Tom Hayden was long past his heyday of political rebellion and the Chicago 7 trial when he died on Sunday at age 76. But in American culture, he remained an enduring symbol of a...
Oct 24, 2016
Dog alerts neighbours to fire, unconscious owner and pet
PHILADELPHIA - An animal rescue group says a barking dog alerted neighbours to a first-floor blaze at a Philadelphia home where the dog and its owner were later found unconscious inside. The Red Paw E...
Oct 24, 2016
Malta says plane crashed en route to Libya surveillance trip
VALLETTA, Malta - A small plane heading toward Libya’s coast to monitor migrant trafficking routes for the French government crashed soon after takeoff from Malta’s airport Monday, killing...
Oct 24, 2016
Tom Hayden, '60s activist and liberal statesman, dead at 76
LOS ANGELES - In one of the most dramatic personal transformations in American political history, Tom Hayden went from being a famed 1960s and 1970s student radical to a mainstream elected official an...
Oct 24, 2016
Authorities find no sign of braking by bus driver in crash
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Ana Car didn’t remember the sudden impact, only that she woke up among dead and injured passengers in a dark bus filled with screams of terror and agony. The retired facto...
Oct 23, 2016
Bill Murray honoured as he accepts Mark Twain prize for humour
WASHINGTON - In an evening filled with jokes about Bill Murray’s elusiveness and quirky personality, the actor was honoured with the nation’s top prize for comedy. Murray, who’s 66, ...
Oct 23, 2016