Category Archives: World

MINNEAPOLIS - To crack Minnesota’s biggest cold case - the 1989 abduction of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling - authorities went back to the early days of the investigation. They turned a renewed sp...

ST. LOUIS - Phyllis Schlafly, the outspoken conservative activist who helped defeat the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and founded the Eagle Forum political group, has died. She was 92. Schlafly&...

NEW YORK - Revelers in costumes danced as the sounds of steel drums filled the air Monday at the city’s annual West Indian Day Parade, but despite an expanded police presence violence again marr...

WASHINGTON - City officials in Washington are tearing up a littering citation issued to a toddler. The Washington Post reports (http://wapo.st/2cdBTdD ) 2-year-old Harper Westover received a “No...

JERUSALEM - The Israeli military says the death toll from a construction site collapse in Tel Aviv has risen to four. Rescue teams led by the military’s Home Front Command have been searching fo...

BOSTON - Beleaguered Boston straphangers may find solace in a new website that pokes fun at the nation’s oldest subway system. A pair of longtime Boston commuters created what they call the R...

CARBONDALE, Pa. - A Pennsylvania police station has reopened after being cleared of a swarm of bees that forced officers to abandon the post. The (Scranton) Times-Tribune (http://bit.ly/2cnxy7d ) repo...

BEIRUT - Near-simultaneous bombings claimed by the Islamic State group struck in and around strongholds of the Syrian government and Kurdish troops Monday, killing at least 48 people in a wave of atta...

VIENTIANE, Laos - Acknowledging the dark aftershocks of the Vietnam War, President Barack Obama paid tribute Wednesday to survivors maimed by some 80 million unexploded bombs America dropped on Laos d...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Hermine is expected to begin weakening as it churns hundreds of miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean, but forecasters warn it could continue to impact areas from New York to souther...