Category Archives: CP_World

STEVENS POINT, Wis. - Detroit Tigers pitcher Jordan Zimmermann and his wife are donating $500,000 to the baseball program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where both were student athletes...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump threw his weight behind his daughter’s latest White House effort Thursday, backing her initiative to provide an economic boost to women in the developing worl...

NEW YORK - Filmmaker Woody Allen is suing Amazon for at least $68 million, saying that the company ended a four-picture movie deal last year after old accusations against him resurfaced in the press. ...

CHICAGO - In a story Feb. 1 about a Chicago woman who spearheaded an effort to help the homeless during dangerously cold weather, The Associated Press misidentified the woman. Her name is Candice Payn...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Charging documents say a swastika and “family values” tattoo helped police identify a Missouri man accused of choking, raping and stabbing a woman. The Springfield News-...

GENEVA - A U.N. human rights expert said Thursday that Saudi Arabia undermined Turkey’s efforts to investigate the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which she described as a “brutal and...

COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. - Bill Cosby has been moved to a general population unit as he serves three to 10 years in prison for sexual assault in Pennsylvania. The move last week came after the 81-year-old ac...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has pardoned a “large number” of prisoners in honour of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, state TV reported ...

LONDON - British novelist Rosamunde Pilcher, whose family saga “The Shell Seekers” sold millions of copies around the world, has died, her agent said Thursday. She was 94. Pilcher’s ...

RICHMOND, Va. - The discovery last week of a racist photo on Gov. Ralph Northam’s 1984 medical school yearbook page has served as a glaring reminder that Virginia - a former bastion of slavery a...