Category Archives: World
The Cosby 13: Meet the women being asked to testify at trial
PHILADELPHIA - Did Bill Cosby drug and molest young women as part of a signature string of assaults spanning five decades? Prosecutors preparing for his sexual assault trial hope to call 13 of about 6...
Dec 12, 2016
CPJ: More journalists jailed than in nearly 3 decades
NEW YORK - More journalists have been jailed this year by governments around the world than at any time in nearly three decades, primarily because of the crackdown in Turkey after a failed coup in Jul...
Dec 12, 2016
Prosecutors push ahead with trial for last Oregon occupiers
PORTLAND, Ore. - The U.S. government will push forward with conspiracy charges against the remaining seven people who helped take over a national wildlife refuge in Oregon, just weeks after the stunni...
Dec 12, 2016
Police: 2 Georgia officers shot during traffic stop
LAVONIA, Ga. - Police say two northeast Georgia officers have been shot while trying to arrest a suspect in a stolen car. Multiple media outlets report that Lavonia police Chief Bruce Carlisle says th...
Dec 12, 2016
Trump selects Tillerson for State, dismissing Russia ties
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump has selected Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to lead the State Department, dismissing concerns about the businessman’s close ties with Russia, two people ...
Dec 12, 2016
Police: Woman drives truck through Missouri clinic's doors
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Police in southwest Missouri say a woman outraged at a doctor was arrested after driving her pickup truck through a health centre’s glass doors. Police say no injuries resulte...
Dec 12, 2016
MH370 search ship leaves Australia for perhaps final time
PERTH, Australia - A lone survey vessel has left an Australian port for perhaps the final time to search for the Malaysian airliner that mysteriously crashed into the southern Indian Ocean two years a...
Dec 12, 2016
AP Interview: Gorbachev says US was short-sighted on Soviets
MOSCOW - As the Soviet Union was breaking up 25 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev expected the United States and its Western allies to provide vital aid. The former Soviet president thinks their failure to...
Dec 12, 2016
Auction houses face off in website data scraping lawsuit
NEW YORK - Christie’s auction house has been accused in a lawsuit of using a computer program to scrape research, images and price information from a rival’s website and then reselling tha...
Dec 12, 2016
On the ground! Police help man stage proposal to girlfriend
MOBILE, Ala. - Police in one Alabama city said they helped stage a man’s arrest so that he could really just kneel down and propose to his terrified girlfriend. With the help of two officers, Da...
Dec 12, 2016