Category Archives: World
US court upholds ban on gun sales to marijuana card holders
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal ban on the sale of guns to medical marijuana card holders does not violate the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court said Wednesday. The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Co...
Aug 31, 2016
US set to destroy big chemical weapon stockpile
DENVER - The U.S. Army plans to start operating a $4.5 billion plant next week that will destroy the nation’s largest remaining stockpile of mustard agent, complying with an international treaty...
Aug 31, 2016

YouTube star PewDiePie back on Twitter after ISIS joke
LOS ANGELES - The most popular YouTuber is back on Twitter after joking that his account became unverified because he joined ISIS. Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg’s Twitter account was b...
Aug 31, 2016
US high court refuses to reinstate North Carolina voter ID
RALEIGH, N.C. - A divided U.S. Supreme Court refused Wednesday to reinstate North Carolina’s voter identification requirement and keep just 10 days of early in-person voting. The decision - a vi...
Aug 31, 2016
NYPD might not say if officer in chokehold death is punished
New York City might never tell the public if the police officer at the centre of the Eric Garner chokehold death case is disciplined, the mayor and police commissioner indicated this week after reachi...
Aug 31, 2016
Chris Brown faces more legal trouble after police standoff
LOS ANGELES - It seems Chris Brown can’t avoid trouble. Following a bizarre, hourslong standoff with police, the “Deuces” and “Look At Me Now” singer was arrested Tuesday...
Aug 31, 2016
Correction: Obit-Gene Wilder story
A corrected version of the story is below: Actor Gene Wilder, star of Mel Brooks movies, dies at 83 Gene Wilder, the star of such comedy classics as “Young Frankenstein” and “Blazing...
Aug 31, 2016

2 dead in plane crash at Nevada RV park near airport
SPARKS, Nev. - A small plane that crashed into a northern Nevada recreational vehicle park, killing both people on board, plunged nose-first close to occupied RVs - and no one on the ground was hurt, ...
Aug 31, 2016

Ex-Atlanta police officer indicted in death of unarmed man
ATLANTA - A grand jury on Wednesday charged a white former Atlanta police officer with felony murder and other crimes in the death of an unarmed black man who was driving a car. The Fulton County gran...
Aug 31, 2016

Man freed after 1995 double-murder conviction tossed
DURHAM, N.C. - A North Carolina man was freed from jail Wednesday after a judge tossed his conviction in a double-murder case tried 21 years ago by the prosecutor who was later disbarred for lying and...
Aug 31, 2016