Category Archives: World
Residents of Syria's Aleppo share tormented goodbyes online
BEIRUT - First came the distress calls from doctors in underground shelters and morgues. Then residents under relentless bombardment in the few remaining blocks under rebel control in Aleppo began pos...
Dec 13, 2016
Ones, zeroes stolen off addresses on homes are returned
PHILADELPHIA - Scores of ones and zeroes stolen from addresses mounted on the homes of Philadelphia residents have been returned. The news website Billy Penn reports that a white trash bag containing ...
Dec 13, 2016
Oklahoma court tosses abortion law on hospital privileges
OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a law requiring abortion clinics to have doctors with admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, saying efforts to portray the measure as...
Dec 13, 2016
Rapper Lil Uzi Vert charged over Atlanta dirt bike ride
ATLANTA - Rapper Lil Uzi Vert has been charged with reckless driving and a host of other counts after police say he and another man raced through the streets of Atlanta on dirt bikes. Police say the 2...
Dec 13, 2016
Cosby lawyer attacks 'bandwagon' accusers' accounts as vague
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Bill Cosby’s lawyers on Wednesday attacked what they called “vague, remote and often inconsistent” allegations from a slew of women whom prosecutors are seeking to ...
Dec 13, 2016
US halts some Saudi arms sales over Yemen deaths concerns
WASHINGTON - The United States is terminating some sales of military arms to Saudi Arabia over concerns about the killing of civilians in Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition, a senior U.S. official said Tu...
Dec 13, 2016
Japanese brewer Asahi to buy East Europe beer brands for $8B
TOKYO - Japanese brewer the Asahi Group said Tuesday it plans to buy five beer brands in Eastern Europe for 7.3 billion euros ($7.8 billion). Asahi said Tuesday that the beer brands in the Czech Repub...
Dec 13, 2016
Jurors say they are deadlocked in murder-for-hire trial
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The jurors hearing the case of a Florida woman accused of trying to hire a hit man to murder her husband says they are deadlocked. The six jurors told Judge Glenn Kelley late T...
Dec 13, 2016
Gov't to require cars be able to talk to each other
WASHINGTON - All new cars and light trucks would be able to talk wirelessly with each other, with traffic lights and with other roadway infrastructure under a proposal released Tuesday by the Transpor...
Dec 13, 2016
The Latest: Prosecutors ask to put Cosby accusers on stand
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - The Latest on Bill Cosby’s latest court appearance in a sexual-assault case (all times local): 4:25 p.m. Prosecutors in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case say the 79-year-o...
Dec 13, 2016