Category Archives: World

Newspaper lands easy scoop: Corvette crashes into its office
PLEASANTVILLE, N.J. - A New Jersey newspaper has scored an easy scoop. A Corvette crashed into the newsroom of the Press of Atlantic City newspaper in Pleasantville. The newspaper reports the car̵...
Oct 17, 2017

Official: Serial killer suspect's call to cops led to arrest
BATON ROUGE, La. - A suspected serial killer was arrested in Louisiana last week after he called a sheriff’s office and claimed responsibility for a string of shootings that killed three men and...
Oct 17, 2017
Securities officials probing S. Carolina nuke plant fiasco
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Securities regulators are investigating a scuttled nuclear reactor construction project in South Carolina, according to a release Tuesday from one of the plant’s co-owners. In t...
Oct 17, 2017
12 Turkish police officers wounded in bombing
ANKARA, Turkey - A bomb exploded as a bus carrying police was passing by in a southern Turkish city on Tuesday, wounding a dozen officers, officials said. The blast occurred on a main road in the Medi...
Oct 17, 2017

Oops! Actor Bill Pullman accepts, then breaks film award
KINGSTON, N.Y. - Bill Pullman is a bit of a klutz when it comes to holding onto a film award. The “Independence Day” actor was the recipient of the Excellence in Acting Award at the Woodst...
Oct 17, 2017
Man vows he's penniless in court; deputies find $4K on him
COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio defendant who vowed he was penniless and couldn’t pay a fine now faces a big one after deputies escorting him from court found he had over $4,000 in his clothes. The Col...
Oct 17, 2017

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge expecting child in April
LONDON - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge say their third child will be due in April. The royal couple had already revealed that they were having a child, but didn’t previously say which month ...
Oct 17, 2017

US industrial production rose solid 0.3 per cent in September
WASHINGTON - U.S. industrial production rose a solid 0.3 per cent in September, but the increase was limited due to the lingering damage from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The Federal Reserve said Tuesd...
Oct 17, 2017

Curiosity does in bear cubs after escape from wildlife park
RAPID CITY, S.D. - Two bear cubs that escaped from a South Dakota wildlife park didn’t get far, due in part to their curiosity. The Rapid City Journal reports that a man spotted the cubs lollyga...
Oct 17, 2017

US homebuilder sentiment rises in October
U.S. homebuilders are feeling more optimistic than they have in months, looking past a recent slowdown in new home sales and the risk of rising labour and materials costs following hurricanes Harvey a...
Oct 17, 2017