Category Archives: World
South Texas fossil could be reptile that swam 90M years ago
DEL RIO, Texas - A fossil found in limestone along a remote South Texas riverbed could be that of a dolphin-like reptile that swam in oceans 90 million years ago, according to paleontologists. The dis...
Jan 02, 2017
Slain Pennsylvania trooper is recalled as a model officer
MARTINSBURG, Pa. - A state police trooper who was shot to death while responding to a domestic incident three days ago in rural central Pennsylvania was remembered Monday as a model officer. Gov. Tom ...
Jan 02, 2017

Round-the-clock federal manhunt underway for escaped inmate
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. - A round-the-clock state and federal manhunt is underway for an inmate who escaped from a Rhode Island detention centre. The Wyatt Correctional Center warden says 35-year-old form...
Jan 02, 2017

'Rogue One' tops box office for third straight weekend
NEW YORK - The new year at the box office is starting where 2016 left off: with Disney on top. The “Star Wars” spinoff “Rogue One” led the box office for the third straight wee...
Jan 02, 2017
4 children die in Texas gas poisoning; others injured
AMARILLO, Texas - A poisonous gas believed to have been released when someone tried to wash away a pesticide that had been sprayed under a Texas home killed four children and left six other people hos...
Jan 02, 2017
Twins delivered minutes apart have different birth years
GLENDALE, Ariz. - Twins delivered 10 minutes apart at an Arizona hospital over the New Year’s weekend have different birth years. Phoenix TV station KNXV-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2i0Ib1q) that ...
Jan 02, 2017

Billie Lourd speaks out on deaths of mother, grandmother
Billie Lourd says the support she’s received since the deaths of her mother, Carrie Fisher, and her grandmother, Debbie Reynolds, has given her strength. Lourd posted a photo of herself with Fis...
Jan 02, 2017
John Berger, pioneering art critic and author, dies at 90
NEW YORK - John Berger, the British art critic, intellectual and prodigious author whose pioneering 1972 book and the BBC series it spawned, “Ways of Seeing,” redefined the way a generatio...
Jan 02, 2017
Alabama band to march at inauguration, igniting controversy
The marching band of Alabama’s oldest private, historically black liberal arts college has accepted an invitation to perform at President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural parade, organizers ...
Jan 02, 2017
Democrats extol health care law in bid to derail GOP repeal
WASHINGTON - Senior House Democrats on Monday extolled the benefits of President Barack Obama’s health care law in hopes of derailing Republican plans to gut the statute and over time replace it...
Jan 02, 2017