Category Archives: World

SAN DIEGO - The son of Mexican mariachi superstar Pepe Aguilar has been sentenced to time served after being arrested at a U.S.-Mexico border crossing on allegations of attempting to smuggle four Chin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Credit monitoring company Equifax has been hit by a high-tech heist that exposed the Social Security numbers and other sensitive information about 143 million Americans. Now the unwitt...

WESTMINSTER, Vt. - John “Jack” Keil, the advertising executive who led the team that created McGruff the Crime Dog and who voiced the character, has died. Keil died Aug. 25 at home in West...

TROUTDALE, Ore. - The Latest on wildfires burning across the U.S. West (all times local): 8:30 p.m. The U.S. Coast Guard has closed the Columbia River to all vessel traffic east of Portland, Oregon, b...

MOSCOW - A Moscow court on Wednesday ruled in favour of a flight attendant who said Russia’s flagship airline stopped assigning her to work long-haul international flights because of her weight....

MEXICO CITY - The Latest on the Mexico earthquake (all times local): 10:25 p.m. Mexico’s state oil company is reassuring the country that fuel supplies will not be interrupted despite a magnitud...

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers returned to Washington Tuesday facing a daunting to-do list and three months left in the year to show that Republicans can actually get things done. President Donald Trump immed...

LAS VEGAS - A 28-year-old ex-convict pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing a California man with a single punch outside a downtown Las Vegas bar. James Michael Beach also is accused of threatening to ...

CHINO, Calif. - Getting the approval of a parole panel was the easy part for Leslie Van Houten, the youngest of Charles Manson’s murderous followers. Between her and her release stands a governo...

LITITZ, Pa. - A girl says she and her friends are behind the red balloons found tied to sewer grates in a small Pennsylvania town, not a homicidal clown. Seventeen-year-old Peyton Reiff tells PennLive...