Category Archives: World
Earls of Leicester get third top award at Bluegrass Awards
RALEIGH, N.C. - The Grammy-winning Earls of Leicester took home their third entertainer of the year award in a row at the International Bluegrass Music Awards while the band Volume Five won emerging a...
Sep 29, 2017
Sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific on tsunami debris
WASHINGTON - Nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami, washing ashore alive in the United States, researc...
Sep 29, 2017
Mexican rescue dog Frida became symbol of earthquake hope
MEXICO CITY - Even without rescuing anyone from the rubble after Mexico’s big earthquake, a photogenic yellow Labrador retriever named Frida has gained an international social media following. A...
Sep 29, 2017
Rapper Macklemore wades into Australia's gay marriage debate
CANBERRA, Australia - U.S. rapper Macklemore is wading into Australia’s gay-marriage debate by vowing to sing his marriage equality anthem “Same Love” during a weekend rugby final. B...
Sep 29, 2017
The Playboy Mansion played a starring role in Hef's mystique
LOS ANGELES - Apart from the White House, there’s probably not a more storied home in the world than the Playboy Mansion. Its sprawling grounds have played host to countless parties and social e...
Sep 29, 2017
Dakota Access developer gives $15M toward security costs
BISMARCK, N.D. - The builder of the Dakota Access pipeline sent North Dakota $15 million on Thursday to help pay law enforcement bills related to months of sometimes violent protests over the project&...
Sep 29, 2017
Missing toddler's aunt, grandmother say she is still alive
WATERVILLE, Maine - The aunt and grandmother of a toddler who disappeared five years ago, prompting the biggest investigation in Maine’s history, say they believe she is still alive. A judge Wed...
Sep 29, 2017
Kim Kardashian confirms new baby in reality show promo
LOS ANGELES - Kim Kardashian West is finally confirming that she and Kanye West are having a third child - and she’s doing it through a promo for her reality series. Kardashian West is shown in ...
Sep 29, 2017
Mom who ran over toddler loses license in an unrelated case
LEWISTON, Maine - A Maine woman who was driving away from a birthday party when she ran over and killed her toddler daughter in a parking lot has lost her license due to an unrelated offence. The Sun ...
Sep 29, 2017
Playboy's Hefner, who revved up sexual revolution, dies
LOS ANGELES - Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, the pipe-smoking hedonist who revved up the sexual revolution in the 1950s and built a multimedia empire of clubs, mansions, movies and television, symbol...
Sep 29, 2017