Category Archives: World

Raccoon jumps on moving Colorado police van, takes a ride
DENVER - A Colorado Springs police officer heading to an accident scene in a van got a big surprise when a raccoon jumped onto the front windshield of the vehicle and stayed there until the officer pu...
Sep 22, 2017
School board asks court to dismiss transgender teen's suit
RICHMOND, Va. - A Virginia school board on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a transgender teen who sued for the right to use the boys bathroom at his high school. Gavin Grimm...
Sep 22, 2017
Texas asks court to allow its ban on 'sanctuary cities'
NEW ORLEANS - With immigrants and their advocates chanting and beating drums outside, a federal appeals court heard arguments Friday on whether it should allow a Texas law aimed at combatting “s...
Sep 22, 2017

California gang members found guilty of killing 5
LONG BEACH, Calif. - Two gang members have been found guilty of killing five people at a homeless encampment near Los Angeles. The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office says jurors found David ...
Sep 22, 2017
Report: Student found unresponsive had been drinking at frat
BATON ROUGE, La. - A Louisiana State University student had spent the night drinking at a fraternity house before he was found unresponsive and later died at a hospital, according to a police report r...
Sep 22, 2017
Ann Coulter says she won't attend Berkeley free speech event
BERKELEY, Calif. - When computer science major Lindsay Nichols considers the possibility of a “Free Speech Week” featuring right-wing firebrands at the University of California, Berkeley, ...
Sep 22, 2017
'Little Rock Nine' members mark school's 1957 desegregation
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - When she saw images unfold from a deadly white supremacist rally this summer in Virginia, Minnijean Brown Trickey immediately thought about the angry mob she and eight other black ...
Sep 22, 2017
Senate bill would make online political ads more transparent
WASHINGTON - Legislation floated by two Democratic senators would enhance transparency for online political ads, requiring social media companies like Facebook and Twitter to keep a public file of ele...
Sep 22, 2017

Elderly deaths: Call for generators in Florida nursing homes
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - After 11 nursing home residents died in the sweltering heat of hurricane-induced power outages, Florida’s nursing home industry is now on a collision course with Gov. Rick Sc...
Sep 22, 2017
Russia: Relations with US poor over 'Russo-phobic hysteria'
Russia’s foreign minister said Friday the downturn in relations with the United States began with the Obama administration’s “small-hearted” and “revengeful” action...
Sep 22, 2017