Staff The crew of “Fool’s Gold” is hoping everyone will tune in to see the first two episodes of Season 2 when it premiers tonight at 7 p.m. on Discovery. About 100 fans turned out to a launch party Friday night at the Copper River Inn, where they took in […]
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By Nicole Winfield The Associated Press VATICAN CITY Pope Francis radically reformed the Catholic Church’s process for annulling marriages Tuesday, allowing for fast-track decisions and removing automatic appeals in a bid to speed up and simplify the procedure. Francis issued a new law regulating how bishops around the world determine […]
By John Flesher The Associated Press CROSSROADS, N.M. Carl Johnson and son Justin, who have complained for years about spills of oilfield wastewater where they raise cattle in the high plains of New Mexico, stroll across a 1 1/2-acre patch of sandy soil ‚Äî lifeless, save for a scattering of […]
The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of North and South Korea agreed Tuesday to hold reunions next month of families separated by the Korean War in the early 1950s, a small but important bit of progress for rivals that just last month were threatening each other with war. One hundred […]
The Associated Press HILO, Hawaii: Part of King Kamehameha’s (cah-MEH’-ha-MEH’-ha) spear is missing. Police on Hawaii’s Big Island are asking the public for help locating the top section of the spear that’s part of the statue of the Hawaiian warrior in Hilo (HEE’-loh). Police say the spear was last seen […]
The Associated Press RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.: A boat off the coast of Mexico apparently spotted the blue whale Monday that rescuers first saw several days ago entangled in hundreds of feet of fishing line near Los Angeles. A blue whale trailing line and a red buoy was seen around […]
By Vladimir Isachenkov The Associated Press MOSCOW: Signs of an ongoing Russian military buildup in Syria have drawn U.S. concerns and raised questions of whether Moscow plans to enter the conflict. President Vladimir Putin has been coy on the subject, saying Russia is weighing various options, a statement that has […]
By Maria Cheng The Associated Press LONDON Doctors Without Borders says the world will run out of one of the most effective treatments for snakebites next year, putting the lives of tens of thousands of people at risk, mostly in developing countries. In a statement issued on Monday, the medical […]
By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO New research suggests parents are doing a better job of keeping household medicines out of the hands of young children. Emergency room visits by children who swallowed medicine while unsupervised have declined substantially, reversing an earlier trend, the study found. By contrast, ER […]
By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO Infants are more likely to catch whooping cough from their siblings than their moms, says a study with implications for how to protect them. Previously, moms were considered the more common source of infection. The change is probably due in part to an […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO So who is panicking amid the current volatility on global equity markets? Apparently not most Canadian retail investors, according to a new survey issued by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. CIBC (TSX:CM) says the survey, conducted Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 after some two weeks […]
By Jesse J. Holland The Associated Press WASHINGTON Even millennials don’t think much of their generation, according to a new poll Thursday. A Pew Research Center study showed that millennials ‚Äî generally defined as those ages 18-34 ‚Äî had far more negative views of their generation compared to Generation Xers, […]
