The Associated Press MEDICINE LODGE, Kan.–Authorities say a vulture caused a crash that killed two people as they rode a motorcycle in southern Kansas. The Kansas Highway Patrol said the bird came out of a ditch Saturday afternoon and struck 42-year-old Brandon Husband, of Fowler, in the head on a […]
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The Associated PressGemunu AmarasingheEmily Schmall NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka–St. Sebastian’s Church in Sri Lanka’s Negombo city was packed when Nilantha Lakmal arrived with his wife and three daughters for Easter Mass. The pews already full, the family joined dozens of others in the front garden, listening to the priest through the […]
The Associated PressGemunu Amarasinghe NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka–The seaside Sri Lankan fishing town of Negombo has long been called “Little Rome,” a reference to its abundance of churches and its place at the centre of the country’s small Catholic community. Today, it was a town in mourning. Small white flags flew […]
By Michael Liedtke And Tom Krisher The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears poised to transform the company’s electric cars into driverless vehicles in a risky bid to realize a bold vision that he has been floating for years. The technology required to make that quantum […]
The Associated Press BERLIN–German authorities have ordered a blinged-out golden Porsche off the road for being too shiny. Hamburg’s Morgenpost reported April 5 the 31-year-old driver was stopped in the northern city last week and told his Porsche Panamera, sporting a reflective gold foil finish, might blind other drivers and […]
The Associated PressAndrew Selsky SALEM, Ore.–Rose Marie Bentley was an avid swimmer, raised five kids, helped her husband run a feed store, and lived to the ripe age of 99. It was only after she died that medical students discovered that all her internal organs except for her heart were […]
The Associated PressMike Householder Detroit-area Roman Catholics have one more dining option during Lent than most other followers of the faith. The culinary appeal of that item, however, is up for debate. A long-standing permission allows local Catholics to eat muskrat–a furry, marsh-dwelling rodent native to the area–“on days of […]
The Canadian Press SASKATOON–Before he died, Chris Wenzel always talked about travelling across Canada with his wife. Cheryl Wenzel of Saskatoon is now planning that trip from Vancouver to St. John’s, N.L., to show off frames of her late husband’s preserved tattooed skin. It was a wish the heavily inked, […]
By Leanne Italie THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Earth, meet Polo. Polo Ralph Lauren on Thursday launched a version of its iconic polo shirt made entirely of recycled plastic bottles and dyed through a process that uses zero water. David Lauren, the youngest son of the company’s founder and […]
By David Crary The Associated Press NEW YORK — The percentage of U.S. adults who belong to a church or other religious institution has plunged by 20 percentage points over the past two decades, hitting a low of 50% last year, according to a new Gallup poll. Among major demographic […]
By Cathy Bussewitz The Associated Press NEW YORK — Love them or hate them, electric scooters are everywhere zipping along city streets and littered on sidewalks, to the dismay of pedestrians and drivers who must share the road. And now they have overtaken station-based bicycles as the most popular form […]
By Adrian Sainz And Jeff Martin The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An arsenal of new technology is being put to the test fighting floods this year as rivers inundate towns and farm fields across the central United States. Drones, supercomputers and sonar that scans deep under water are helping […]
