Category Archives: World
Law enforcement condemns letters threatening Muslims
LOS ANGELES - Law enforcement officials condemned a hate-filled letter Monday directed at several California mosques that warned Muslims to leave the country to avoid being exterminated. Los Angeles p...
Nov 28, 2016
Southern storms should ease drought, but fire threat remains
ATLANTA - Storms roaring across the South appeared to be taking aim at some of the largest wildfires burning across the region, which could finally help firefighters in their efforts to subdue the bla...
Nov 28, 2016
Fast-acting Ohio State officer praised for killing attacker
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Officials on Monday praised an Ohio State University police officer who shot and killed a man a minute after he drove his car into a crowd and then stabbed multiple people. Officer Al...
Nov 28, 2016
Nevada homicide suspect who broke cuffs named in more cases
LAS VEGAS - A homicide suspect who broke his handcuffs and escaped from a Las Vegas-area police station in September has been charged with a second killing, and police have identified him as the lone ...
Nov 28, 2016
San Francisco's sinking tower seen from space
SAN FRANCISCO - The European Space Agency has released satellite data that shows the 58-story Millennium Tower in San Francisco’s is continuing to sink at a steady rate - and perhaps faster than...
Nov 28, 2016
Bay Area homicide being investigated as possible hate crime
SAN FRANCISCO - Authorities in the San Francisco Bay Area are investigating the slaying of a young black man as a possible hate crime amid growing concern over racially motivated incidents and attacks...
Nov 28, 2016
Orders could have little effect on pipeline protest camp
BISMARCK, N.D. - Government orders for protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline to leave federal land could have little immediate effect on the encampment where scores of people have been gathered for...
Nov 28, 2016
Some blacks applaud Castro legacy of racial equality
DETROIT - The Fidel Castro that Sam Riddle and many other African-Americans admired was not the revolutionary dictator who plunged Cuba into economic ruin and held the island nation in an iron grip. T...
Nov 28, 2016
First commercial US-Havana flight lands in ramped-up travel
HAVANA - Just three days after the death of Fidel Castro, the first scheduled commercial flight from the U.S. to Havana in more than 50 years landed Monday to the applause of passengers and a water-sp...
Nov 28, 2016
Murder charge dismissed against 1 of 2 Albuquerque officers
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A special prosecutor dismissed a second-degree murder charge Monday against one of two former Albuquerque police officers charged in the shooting death of a homeless man that was c...
Nov 28, 2016