Category Archives: World

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A New York man who killed his toddler daughter, burned her body and dumped her remains in a waterway has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Twenty-five-year-old Ryan Lawren...

MADISON, Wis. - A federal judge told Wisconsin prison officials on Wednesday that they must release an inmate featured in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” by Friday evening. It’...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Minnesota police officer has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the killing of a black man in a St. Paul suburb. Prosecutors announced the charge against St. Anthony p...

ROME - Six years of excavations have given Rome a new tourist attraction in Circus Maximus , the sprawling valley where chariot races once delighted the ancient city’s denizens. The archaeologic...

BEIRUT - Bombs rained down on rebel-held eastern Aleppo for a second straight day Wednesday, pounding a district that houses several medical facilities, including the central blood bank, and forcing S...

COPENHAGEN - Bob Dylan won’t be coming to Stockholm to pick up his 2016 Nobel Prize for literature at the Dec. 10 prize ceremony. The Swedish Academy said Wednesday that Dylan told them “h...

PHILADELPHIA - A fundraising campaign to help save Benjamin Franklin’s damaged gravestone is no longer livin’ on a prayer. Rocker Jon bon Jovi and his wife, Dorothea, on Tuesday donated $5...

CHICAGO - A delegation of Illinois political, religious, police and business leaders plan to travel to Rome this week as Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich becomes a cardinal. The list that Chicago Mayor...

COPENHAGEN - Bob Dylan won’t be coming to Stockholm to pick up his 2016 Nobel Prize for literature at the Dec. 10 prize ceremony. The Swedish Academy said Wednesday that Dylan told them “h...

U.S. homebuilders’ confidence held steady this month, though their expectations for sales into next year dimmed slightly. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment ...