Category Archives: World

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Investigators say they don’t know why a couple found dead outside their still-running SUV had stopped along Interstate 4 near Daytona Beach early on New Year’s Eve wi...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Tilikum the orca has died after more than two decades at SeaWorld Orlando, where he gained notoriety for killing a trainer in 2010 and was later profiled in a documentary that helped s...

NEW YORK - Wal-Mart says it named John Furner as CEO of its Sam’s Club stores to replace Rosalind Brewer, who is retiring next month. Furner, who is 42, will head the membership-only warehouse c...

NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 9:35 a.m. Stocks are opening mostly lower on Wall Street, led by declines in high-dividend stocks like phone companies and...

NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4:00 p.m. The Dow Jones industrial average came within half a point of 20,000 but closed below that milestone as an aftern...

HONOLULU - As traditional commercial fishing is threatening fish populations worldwide, U.S. officials are working on a plan to expand fish farming into federal waters around the Pacific Ocean. The go...

VILLA DE REYES, Mexico - Word spread quickly through cellphone messages and shouts between co-workers that Ford Motor Co. had cancelled its new $1.6 billion car plant at its sprawling 700-acre high de...

IONE, Calif. - Lyle Menendez says his childhood prepared him “surprisingly well for the chaos of prison life.” Menendez and his younger brother, Erik, killed their wealthy parents, Jose an...

NIMRUD, Iraq - The giant winged bulls that once stood sentry at the nearly 3,000-year-old palace at Nimrud have been hacked to pieces. The fantastical human-headed creatures were believed to guard the...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Before Dylann Roof was arrested for killing nine black church members, he scribbled a note to his mother, apologizing for all the repercussions his actions would cause. Weeks later, i...