Category Archives: World
Captive's rescue leads to break in grisly quadruple slaying
CHESNEE, S.C. - For 13 years, the relatives came together periodically to grieve one of South Carolina’s grisliest mass shootings and compare leads with stumped investigators. On Sunday, they ga...
Nov 04, 2016
2 New York police sergeants shot, 1 killed; suspect dead
NEW YORK - Two police sergeants were shot, one fatally, in an exchange of gunfire on Friday with a man suspected of breaking into a woman’s home, authorities said. The gunman also was killed. Go...
Nov 04, 2016
University: Former student stabs 3 people, including himself
PISCATAWAY, N.J. - A former student at Rutgers University returned to its business school and stabbed a faculty member, another student and then himself on Friday, officials said. The university sent ...
Nov 04, 2016
Colorado city uses toilet paper to help repair cracked roads
LITTLETON, Colo. - It’s not pranksters or vandals who placed toilet paper all over the streets of Littleton, Colorado, it was city workers. The Denver Post reports (http://dpo.st/2e9pIlw ) that ...
Nov 04, 2016
Indonesia president: Political meddling behind Jakarta clash
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia’s president blamed political meddling for violence in the capital Jakarta on Friday that killed one person and injured seven following a protest by hard-line Musli...
Nov 04, 2016
Los Angeles prosecutors charge body-shaming Playboy model
Los Angeles prosecutors have charged a Playboy model with invasion of privacy for taking a photo of a naked woman in a gym locker room and posting it to social media. The Snapchat post included an ins...
Nov 04, 2016
The Undecideds: They're out there, and so very conflicted
WASHINGTON - After all the sound, fury, fact, fallacy, bluster and blarney of the 2016 presidential campaign, there still are undecided voters out there. Really. And they’re not just people who&...
Nov 04, 2016
Jury: Rolling Stone's rape story defamed university official
RICHMOND, Va. - Rolling Stone magazine, its publisher and a reporter defamed a University of Virginia administrator who sued them for $7.5 million over a discredited story about a gang rape at a frate...
Nov 04, 2016
Man claiming to be shower victim testifies in Sandusky case
BELLEFONTE, Pa. - A man who claims he was the young sexual-assault victim seen with former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky in a campus shower 15 years ago, a central episode in the ...
Nov 04, 2016
Strong quake shakes Chile; no reports of damage
SANTIAGO, Chile - A strong earthquake rattled buildings in Chile’s capital and other regions of the country on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injury and authorities dis...
Nov 04, 2016