Category Archives: World

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - Two suspects in a weekend break-in at a Massachusetts convenience store had a fowl accomplice. Northampton officers investigating a robbery in progress at a store at about 3:45 a....

LA PAZ, Bolivia - The airline involved in last week’s crash in the Andes left a trail of unpaid bills that forced Bolivia’s air force to seize two planes and briefly jail one of the compan...

HELSINKI - Finnish police say they are holding a 36-year-old foreigner suspected of fatally stabbing his female friend in the Arctic wilds of Lapland. Tourism officials say the victim was a British em...

WASHINGTON - The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST): 4:40 p.m. Vice-President Joe Biden says that some of the economic proposals under discussion as a new administration prepares t...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The process of finding six objective jurors to hear the case of a Florida woman accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband plodded forward Monday with the judge be...

WASHINGTON - U.S. services companies expanded last month at their fastest pace in more than a year. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade organization of purchasing managers, says its services ...

BANJUL, Gambia - A top Gambian opposition politician and 18 other protesters were released from prison after an appeals court granted them bail on Monday, just days after strongman ruler Yahya Jammeh ...

ROME - Calls mounted rapidly Monday from populist and other opposition leaders for quick elections in Italy, seeking to capitalize on Premier Matteo Renzi’s humiliating defeat in a referendum on...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - President-elect Donald Trump, a political newcomer who touts his corporate skills, turned businessman-in-chief Tuesday, first demanding the government cancel a multibillion-dollar...

TOKYO - In a story published Dec. 5 about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s upcoming visit to Pearl Harbor, The Associated Press reported erroneously that he would be the first Japanese leade...