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Man arrested in London subway explosion
LONDON – A man has been arrested over a small explosion at a London underground station on Tuesday which police said was likely to have been caused by a battery malfunction. Five people needed medical treatment after the incident, described as minor explosion, at Southgate station in north London on Tuesday evening. Police said there...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 08:36:24 -0400
LONDON – A man has been arrested over a small explosion at a London underground station on Tuesday which police said was likely to have been caused by a battery malfunction. Five people needed medical treatment after the incident, described as minor explosion, at Southgate station in north London on Tuesday evening. Police said there...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 08:36:24 -0400
Indonesia says 180 could be dead after tourist boat sinks
TIGARAS, Indonesia – The death toll from an Indonesian ferry disaster could top 180, as authorities raised an estimate of the number of people missing two days after the wooden tourist boat sank in a lake formed in the crater of an ancient volcano. Divers and an underwater drone joined the search of Lake Toba...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 08:33:15 -0400
TIGARAS, Indonesia – The death toll from an Indonesian ferry disaster could top 180, as authorities raised an estimate of the number of people missing two days after the wooden tourist boat sank in a lake formed in the crater of an ancient volcano. Divers and an underwater drone joined the search of Lake Toba...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 08:33:15 -0400
Mom says principal ‘humiliated’ 12-year-old daughter before suicide
For an entire school year, a 12-year-old girl endured merciless bullying online and in the hallways by cruel classmates whose taunts included, “When are you going to kill yourself?” Mallory Grossman’s mother made “numerous” complaints to administrators at the New Jersey middle school but they did nothing to help her daughter, she claimed to The...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 08:28:41 -0400
For an entire school year, a 12-year-old girl endured merciless bullying online and in the hallways by cruel classmates whose taunts included, “When are you going to kill yourself?” Mallory Grossman’s mother made “numerous” complaints to administrators at the New Jersey middle school but they did nothing to help her daughter, she claimed to The...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 08:28:41 -0400
North Korea: Kim promised Xi to work toward ‘true peace’ in region
SEOUL/BEIJING – North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping came to an understanding on issues discussed at a summit of the two leaders, including denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, the North’s state media said on Wednesday. Kim and Xi assessed the historic meeting Kim had with U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 08:18:58 -0400
SEOUL/BEIJING – North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping came to an understanding on issues discussed at a summit of the two leaders, including denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, the North’s state media said on Wednesday. Kim and Xi assessed the historic meeting Kim had with U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 08:18:58 -0400
Pope Francis criticizes policy of migrant family separation
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border, saying populism is not the answer to the world’s immigration problems. Speaking to Reuters, the Pope said he supported recent statements by U.S. Catholic bishops who called the separation of children from their parents “contrary to...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 05:49:32 -0400
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border, saying populism is not the answer to the world’s immigration problems. Speaking to Reuters, the Pope said he supported recent statements by U.S. Catholic bishops who called the separation of children from their parents “contrary to...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 05:49:32 -0400
Track Palin gets slap on the wrist for assaulting his dad
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Track Palin was formally accepted into a diversion court program Tuesday after assaulting his father, the former first gentleman of the state of Alaska, so severely it left him bleeding from the head. Palin, the son of 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Todd Palin, pleaded...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 02:43:15 -0400
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Track Palin was formally accepted into a diversion court program Tuesday after assaulting his father, the former first gentleman of the state of Alaska, so severely it left him bleeding from the head. Palin, the son of 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Todd Palin, pleaded...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 02:43:15 -0400
Man trying to kill snake with gasoline sets house on fire
HELSINKI — An improvised method of getting rid of a snake in a garden by spraying it with gasoline kicked off a chain reaction that ended up with a house on fire in southern Finland. Finnish public broadcaster YLE reported Tuesday that some of the flammable liquid spread by an ill-fated homeowner in Siuntio, west...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 02:24:15 -0400
HELSINKI — An improvised method of getting rid of a snake in a garden by spraying it with gasoline kicked off a chain reaction that ended up with a house on fire in southern Finland. Finnish public broadcaster YLE reported Tuesday that some of the flammable liquid spread by an ill-fated homeowner in Siuntio, west...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 02:24:15 -0400
Bear euthanized after breaking into house for loaf of bread
TORRINGTON, Conn. — An 18-year-old who went to investigate a loud noise in his kitchen says he came face-to-face with a bear. Carlos Novicky says he found the bear in his home in Torrington, Connecticut Tuesday after it pushed through a screen window to get a loaf of bread from the counter. Novicky says he...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 02:21:52 -0400
TORRINGTON, Conn. — An 18-year-old who went to investigate a loud noise in his kitchen says he came face-to-face with a bear. Carlos Novicky says he found the bear in his home in Torrington, Connecticut Tuesday after it pushed through a screen window to get a loaf of bread from the counter. Novicky says he...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 02:21:52 -0400
Canadian senate passes bill to legalize marijuana
TORONTO — Canada’s Senate gave final passage Tuesday to the federal government’s bill to legalize cannabis, though Canadians will have to wait at least a couple of months to legally buy marijuana as their country becomes the second in the world to make pot legal nationwide. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government had hoped to make...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 01:40:06 -0400
TORONTO — Canada’s Senate gave final passage Tuesday to the federal government’s bill to legalize cannabis, though Canadians will have to wait at least a couple of months to legally buy marijuana as their country becomes the second in the world to make pot legal nationwide. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government had hoped to make...
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 01:40:06 -0400
Man runs from police, abandons daughter at Dairy Queen
PITTSBURGH — Police say a Pennsylvania man suspected of public intoxication abandoned his daughter at an ice cream shop, and then fought with officers in an attic where he was hiding before falling through the ceiling. State police responded to a Dairy Queen in Fallowfield Township Thursday after the man walked in with his daughter....
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 01:26:15 -0400
PITTSBURGH — Police say a Pennsylvania man suspected of public intoxication abandoned his daughter at an ice cream shop, and then fought with officers in an attic where he was hiding before falling through the ceiling. State police responded to a Dairy Queen in Fallowfield Township Thursday after the man walked in with his daughter....
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 01:26:15 -0400