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Rapper Boosie Badazz faces drug, gun charges in Georgia
ATLANTA - The rapper Boosie Badazz and a passenger were jailed on drug and gun charges after being pulled over south of Atlanta. Coweta County jail records show the 36-year-old rapper faces charges of...
Apr 09, 2019
Gov. Gen. Julie Payette visits Rwanda to mark 25th anniversary of genocide
KIGALI, Rwanda - Gov. Gen. Julie Payette laid a wreath at a memorial in Rwanda's capital on Sunday to mark 25 years since the start of a genocide that left an estimated 800,000 people dead. Payette, w...
Apr 09, 2019
City putting stop to delinquent unpaid parking tickets
Those who are loath to pay their outstanding parking tickets thinking they will eventually be waived will be in for a shock in light of the city's new proactive strategy aimed at cracking down on offe...
Apr 09, 2019 North Battleford Community Safety Officer (CSO) supervisor Ross MacAngus at council’s meeting Monday. MacAngus said it's in residents' best interest to pay parking tickets when they are issued. (Angela Brown/battlefords NOW Staff)
Putin says Mueller's probe validates Russia on no collusion
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin says special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation report validated Moscow's repeated denials of collusion with U.S. between President Donald...
Apr 09, 2019
Trump renews Mueller attacks as Russia report release looms
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump took a victory lap after special counsel Robert Mueller concluded his Russia investigation. It may have been premature. The scramble to frame the investigation's fi...
Apr 09, 2019
Taylor Swift donates $113K to Tennessee LGBTQ advocacy group
NASHVILLE - Music superstar Taylor Swift says the efforts of a Tennessee LGBTQ advocacy group to fight a handful of contentious bills moving inside the state's Republican-controlled General Assembly i...
Apr 09, 2019
25 years after genocide, Rwanda's Kagame is praised, feared
KAMPALA, Uganda - A quarter-century after Rwanda's brutal genocide, President Paul Kagame remains a constant figure atop the country's politics, feted by those who say it needs his visionary leadershi...
Apr 09, 2019
Chicago symphony may cancel more concerts; strike continues
CHICAGO - The Chicago Symphony Orchestra may cancel more concerts after striking musicians rejected what it calls its last, best and final offer on a new contract. Chicago Symphony Orchestra Associati...
Apr 09, 2019
Britain's May in Berlin to plead case for new Brexit delay
BERLIN - Prime Minister Theresa May brought her case for a further delay to Britain's departure from the European Union to Berlin on Tuesday, while German and French officials insisted that any extens...
Apr 09, 2019
Inside 12 days of turmoil that shook Homeland Security
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump had had it. The flow of migrants at the southern border was surging. Another caravan appeared to be forming. And his government had run out of holding space, forcin...
Apr 09, 2019