The Associated Press OXFORD, Miss. It wasn’t your usual foot chase. Oxford police caught a homeless emu, with help from some barbed wire. The Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department had been getting calls about a loose emu for days. Each time they tried to catch the big, flightless bird, it got […]
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By Nick Perry The Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand Fijians were finally able to venture outside Monday after authorities lifted a curfew but much of the country remained without electricity in the wake of a ferocious cyclone that left at least six people dead and destroyed hundreds of homes. Officials […]
By Jeff Karoub The Associated Press KALAMAZOO, Mich. A gunman who seemed to choose his victims at random opened fire outside an apartment complex, a car dealership and a restaurant in Michigan, killing six people in a rampage that lasted nearly seven hours, police said. Authorities identified the shooter as […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press Once upon a time (like, yesterday) I had a hefty hunk of pork, no time and no specific thing I wanted to make. But even with so little going for me, and so little inspiration (see, it happens to all of us), I did […]
By Youkyung Lee The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of The world champion of the ancient Chinese board game Go, South Korean Lee Sedol, expects to will prevail in a match with Google’s computer program AlphaGo next month, but he’s not so sure he would be able to do it […]
By Joseph Wilson The Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain Ford CEO Mark Fields says the 112-year-old company is tripling its investment in new technologies that will ultimately lead to self-driving vehicles but will make sure to keep making cars for drivers who want to keep their hands on the wheel. Fields […]
The Associated PressJulie Watson SAN DIEGO—The federal government is using eye scans and facial recognition technology for the first time to verify the identities of foreigners leaving the United States on foot—a trial move aimed at closing a longstanding security gap, officials announced yesterday. Before now, foreigners who left the […]
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The International Space Station just got a whole lot tidier. A pair of NASA astronauts released a capsule loaded with 1.5 tons of trash Friday as the space station soared over Bolivia. The capsule should re-enter the atmosphere and burn up […]
By Alexander Panetta The Canadian Press CHARLESTON, S.C. The American presidential race is now being fought in a state so renowned for below-the-belt, tire-iron-to-the-kneecap politics that its most famous political operative wound up writing a death-bed mea culpa. Welcome to South Carolina. “We play hardball,” says David Woodard, a campaign […]
The Associated Press MINEOLA, N.Y. A Dallas-based auction house says a rare copy of a comic book featuring the first appearance of Spider-Man has sold for $454,100. The comic book was purchased by an anonymous collector, and Heritage Auctions says Thursday’s sale is a record for a public auction price […]
By Nicole Winfield And Julie Pace The Associated Press Thrusting himself into the heated American presidential campaign, Pope Francis declared Thursday that Donald Trump is “not Christian” if he wants to address illegal immigration only by building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump fired back ferociously, saying it was […]
By Julie Watson The Associated Press SAN DIEGO The federal government is using eye scans and facial recognition technology for the first time to verify the identities of foreigners leaving the United States on foot a trial move aimed at closing a longstanding security gap, officials announced Thursday. Before now, […]
