The Associated Press HARPURSVILLE, N.Y.–A giraffe calf is nursing strongly and his mother is recovering “perfectly,” officials with Animal Adventure Park said yesterday after a morning veterinarian check with the newborn. “April” gave birth to a healthy male calf Saturday at the privately-owned Animal Adventure Park before an online audience […]
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The Associated Press HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. — April the giraffe’s calf is nursing strongly and his mother is recovering “perfectly,” said officials with Animal Adventure Park on Sunday after a morning veterinarian check with the newborn. April gave birth to a healthy male calf Saturday at the privately owned Animal Adventure […]
By Frances D’Emilio THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — On Christianity’s most joyful day, Pope Francis lamented the horrors generated by war and hatred, delivering an Easter Sunday message that also decried the “latest vile” attack on civilians in Syria. Both in his impromptu homily during Mass in St. Peter’s […]
The Associated Press CLEVELAND — An Ohio man claimed to be angry at a woman when he shot and killed an elderly passerby Sunday afternoon while streaming the murder on Facebook. Police urged the suspect to turn himself in, but he remained on the loose into the night. Law enforcement […]
By Eranga Jayawardena The Associated Press MEETOTAMULLA, Sri Lanka — Rescuers on Monday were digging through heaps of mud and trash that collapsed onto a clutch of homes near a garbage dump outside Sri Lanka’s capital, killing at least 29 people and possibly burying dozens more. Hundreds of people had […]
By Rahim Faiez The Associated Press KABUL — Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that the U.S. is using Afghanistan as a weapons testing ground, calling the recent use of the largest-ever non-nuclear bomb “an immense atrocity against the Afghan people.” Last week, U.S. forces dropped the GBU-43 Massive […]
By Suzan Fraser And Elena Becatoros The Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s main opposition party urged the country’s electoral board Monday to cancel the results of a landmark referendum that granted sweeping new powers to the nation’s president, citing what it called substantial voting irregularities. Turkey’s electoral board confirmed […]
By Ken Thomas The Associated Press PANMUNJOM, Korea, Republic Of — Viewing his adversaries in the distance, U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence travelled to the tense zone dividing North and South Korea and warned Pyongyang that after years of testing the U.S. and South Korea with its nuclear ambitions, “the era […]
By The Culinary Institute Of America The Associated Press If you are a mother: Happy Mother’s Day! Please tear out this page (or print, or forward, depending on how woman-on-the-go you are) and put it somewhere your family will find it. Now, stop reading or you’ll ruin the surprise. If […]
The Associated Press VIENNA–A town south of Vienna is abuzz over the reported theft of dozens of beehives, containing about one million bees, from a local park. Police said yesterday they got involved after residents in the town of Ebreichsdorf noticed that the covers of wooden boxes containing 40 hives […]
The Associated Press LYNN, Mass.–A Massachusetts man has a ready answer when asked for his two cents’ worth: He presents a cheque he got from the government. Bruce Rideout, of Lynn, told The Daily Item he got the two-cent cheque from the U.S. Treasury Department a couple of days ago […]
The Associated Press RENO, Nev.–A teen’s Twitter stunt to win a year of free chicken nuggets from Wendy’s might become the platform’s most retweeted post of all time. Carter Wilkinson asked the fast food chain on Twitter last week how many retweets it would take for him to get free […]
