The Associated Press MONTICELLO, N.Y. — A woman who disappeared from upstate New York after being dropped off for a doctor’s appointment 42 years ago has been found suffering from dementia and living in an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, authorities said. The sheriff’s office in Sullivan County, New York, said […]
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The Associated Press BOSTON — A 200-year-old tomb under the historic Boston church closely associated with Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride in 1775 has been reopened. The Boston Globe reports the tomb at the Old North Church was briefly reopened Tuesday for a structural assessment ahead of a renovation of […]
By Brian Melley The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Tim Freriks remembers being a kid and gazing up from the bottom of the Grand Canyon at the intimidating, steep walls looming thousands of feet overhead. He dreaded the long hike back to civilization and never imagined he would one day […]
By Brian Melley The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Tim Freriks remembers being a kid and gazing up from the bottom of the Grand Canyon at the intimidating, steep walls looming thousands of feet overhead. He dreaded the long hike back to civilization and never imagined he would one day […]
By Jill Colvin And Carla K. Johnson The Associated Press WASHINGTON — In ringing and personal terms, President Donald Trump has pledged that “we will overcome addiction in America,” declaring opioid abuse a national public health emergency and announcing new steps to combat what he described as the worst drug […]
By Caleb Jones The Associated Press HONOLULU — A planned voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti aboard a small sailboat didn’t start off well for two Honolulu women. One of their cellphones washed overboard and sank into the deep blue water on their first day at sea. From there, things got […]
By Kaweewit Kaewjinda The Associated Press BANGKOK — The cremated remains of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej were transferred Friday to spiritually significant locations for Buddhist rites that will prepare them to be enshrined on the final day of an elaborate funeral that has transfixed the nation. Hours after the late […]
By Robert Burns The Associated Press On his first visit to the tense but eerily quiet frontier between North and South Korea as U.S. secretary of defence, Jim Mattis conveyed the message he hopes will win the day: Diplomacy is the answer to ending the nuclear crisis with the North, […]
By Eloge Willy Kaneza The Associated Press BUJUMBURA, Burundi — Burundi has become the first country to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, but officials say the court’s prosecutor will move ahead with an examination of the East African nation’s deadly political turmoil. An ICC spokesman confirmed that the pullout […]
The Associated Press NEW YORK–Some flowers have found a nifty way to get the blues. They create a blue halo, apparently to attract the bees they need for pollination, scientists reported Wednesday. Bees are drawn to the colour blue but it’s hard for flowers to make that colour in their […]
By Rod McGuirk THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s High Court will rule Friday on whether seven lawmakers including the deputy prime minister and two senior ministers are eligible to sit in Parliament in a case that threatens the conservative government’s slender majority. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said […]
By Paul Elias The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — A California sheriff released new details Wednesday in the mysterious case of a young mother who was found battered and bruised but alive along a freeway after she was missing for three weeks. The Shasta County sheriff’s department also released sketches […]
