Category Archives: CP_World

SAN FRANCISCO - California has banned farmers from using certain pesticides near schools and day care centres under a new rule announced Tuesday that regulators said is among the toughest in the U.S. ...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - It’s obvious to anyone who looks at a map but also, this week, especially noteworthy: The leaders of two nations that have squared off with harsh words and the threat...

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas - The gunman who carried out the massacre at a small-town Texas church briefly escaped from a mental health centre in New Mexico in 2012 and got in trouble for bringing guns ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida State’s suspension of all fraternities and sororities after a pledge’s death dampens Greek life on campus just as it prepares for homecoming week. But one criti...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A memo included in recently released John F. Kennedy documents shows that the FBI was concerned about the growing political power of Latinos, historians say. Among the thousands of...

MORRO BAY, Calif. - California authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of a protected southern sea otter that had been rescued and returned to the ocean last year, officials said Tuesday. The...

NEW ORLEANS - Attorneys for numerous Texas local governments and immigrant advocates told a federal appeals court Tuesday that a Texas law aimed at cracking down on so-called sanctuary cities puts ill...

PITTSFIELD, Mass. - A Massachusetts museum can move forward with its plan to sell 40 works of art, including two by Norman Rockwell. A judge Tuesday denied bids by the plaintiffs and the state attorne...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansans overwhelmingly support the death penalty, in contrast to national sentiment, months after the state executed four inmates before a lethal injection drug expired, accordin...

WASHINGTON - Apollo 12 astronaut Richard “Dick” F. Gordon Jr., one of a dozen men who flew around the moon but didn’t land there, has died, NASA said. He was 88. Gordon was a test pi...