Category Archives: World
Holy spirits? Closed churches find second life as breweries
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Ira Gerhart finally found a place last year to fulfil his yearslong dream of opening a brewery: a 1923 Presbyterian church. It was cheap, charming and just blocks from downtown Youn...
Oct 06, 2017

Study: Great white sharks are swimming farther and deeper
BOSTON - The movements of great white sharks in the Pacific and Indian oceans have long been the subject of academic study, but new research is just starting to shed light on the behaviour of their At...
Oct 06, 2017

Police: Bengals receiver Tyler Boyd had drugs in crashed car
JEFFERSON HILLS, Pa. - Cincinnati Bengals receiver Tyler Boyd was charged Thursday with owning a vape pen containing the active ingredient in marijuana that police say was found when his friend crashe...
Oct 06, 2017

1st firefighters at Vegas massacre came across it by chance
LAS VEGAS - Fire engineer Brian Emery was driving his station’s engine back from a call for a minor car crash when hundreds of hysterical people began swarming the vehicle near an outdoor countr...
Oct 06, 2017
Trump talks of 'calm before the storm' at military dinner
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump delivered a foreboding message, telling reporters as he posed for photos with his senior military leaders that this might be “the calm before the storm.”...
Oct 06, 2017
Passenger dragged off flight claims racial profiling
BALTIMORE - A woman seen on video being dragged off a Southwest Airlines flight in Maryland has said she believes she was a victim of racial profiling. Anila Daulatzai, who is Muslim, said on ABC̵...
Oct 06, 2017

The Latest: Gorbachev hails Nobel prize for anti-nuke group
OSLO - The Latest on the Nobel Peace Prize (all times local): 14:50 p.m. Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev has hailed the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a group campaigning against nu...
Oct 06, 2017
NewsAlert: International nuclear committee wins Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO - The International Committee to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has been named the 2017 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. The announcement was made in Oslo, Norway. More to come. The Canadian Press
Oct 06, 2017

Japanese roots of Nobel winner Kazuo Ishiguro celebrated
TOKYO - His kindergarten teacher recalls Kazuo Ishiguro as a quiet boy who liked to read books. The British writer left Japan at a young age, but his birthplace became part of his artistic approach, w...
Oct 06, 2017

Effort to restrict 'bump stock' draws unlikely supporters
WASHINGTON - The National Rifle Association has joined the Trump administration and top congressional Republicans in a swift and surprising embrace of a restriction on Americans’ guns, though a ...
Oct 06, 2017