Category Archives: World
Governor Joe Piscopo? Comedian eyes run in New Jersey
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Joe Piscopo’s Frank Sinatra impression, made famous from his days on “Saturday Night Live,” has gotten an update. It’s no longer “New York, New York...
Dec 10, 2016
NYPD seeks cure for gun violence with data-driven cases
NEW YORK - Even as homicide rates have climbed in other American cities, New York City is again on pace to have a near-record low number of shootings, and police are partly crediting refined tactics t...
Dec 10, 2016
Chapel of Love lost to fire that ravaged city in Smokies
GATLINBURG, Tenn. - The wildfires that killed 14 people and tore through Gatlinburg also stole an iconic venue from this city at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains whose nickname is “the wedd...
Dec 10, 2016
Italian president: We need a new government urgently
ROME - Italy’s president promised Saturday he’ll decide “in the next hours” about who to tap as the next premier, saying the country needs a new government as soon as possible ...
Dec 10, 2016
KKK, other racist groups disavow the white supremacist label
PELHAM, N.C. - In today’s racially charged environment, there’s a label that even the KKK disavows: white supremacy. Standing on a muddy dirt road in the dead of night near the North Carol...
Dec 10, 2016
Advocates call Alabama execution an 'avoidable disaster'
ATMORE, Ala. - Defenders of a condemned inmate in Alabama are calling his execution an “avoidable disaster,” but the state prison commissioner says there was no visible evidence that he su...
Dec 10, 2016
Northeast Ohio gas pipeline opponents vow to delay project
CLEVELAND - Northeast Ohio residents who have tried to get a natural gas pipeline moved away from their communities are vowing to engage in delay tactics after a federal agency dismissed their suggest...
Dec 10, 2016
Death toll in Yemen suicide bombing rises to 45
SANAA, Yemen - A suicide bomber on Saturday blew himself up inside an army base in the southern city of Aden, killing 45 soldiers and wounding another 50, security officials said. They said the bomber...
Dec 10, 2016
Colombia's Santos accepts Nobel, urges shift in drug war
STOCKHOLM - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, saying it helped his country achieve the “impossible dream” of ending a half-century-long civ...
Dec 10, 2016
Schwarzenegger: OK Trump is still 'Apprentice' producer
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - Arnold Schwarzenegger, star of the new version of “Celebrity Apprentice,” is unfazed that President-elect Donald Trump has retained a producer’s stake in the...
Dec 10, 2016