MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say they have arrested the former governor of the state of Aguascalientes on financial fraud charges. The Mexican Attorney General’s office said Thursday that an arrest warrant for Luis Armando Reynoso Femat was executed in Leon, a city in Guanajuato state. He was then taken …
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SKHIRAT, Morocco – Libyan political leaders have reached a new version of a U.N.-brokered peace deal, putting pressure on the Tripoli leadership to sign on and build a unity government in hopes of ending the country’s chaos. The Tripoli government refused to participate in the latest discussions Saturday in the …
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LONDON – British police have arrested three men on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism. Police said Tuesday that two men in their 20s and one man in his 30s were arrested at two separate residential addresses north of London in Letchworth and greater Luton. Police said armed officers took …
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Happy hour is back in Illinois — but not all bar owners are saying “cheers” to the new law. Pitchers Pub and Pizzeria owner Lloyd Cueto in Belleville supports the change. He says he’s lost business to out-of-state bars since Illinois banned happy hour in the 1980s. …
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ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – An active underwater volcano off Grenada’s northern coast called Kick ’em Jenny is rumbling and disaster management authorities have been put on alert. Since its discovery in 1939, Kick ’em Jenny has erupted at least 12 times, most recently in 2001. It hasn’t caused any deaths …
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“Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone… anyone? Anyone seen this before?” In the classic teen film, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the dorky economics teacher played exquisitely by Ben Stein answers his own question posed to his comatose high school class. “The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says? It …
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MANOKOTAK, Alaska – A 5-year-old girl from Manokotak (man-oh-KOH’-tak) has died after falling into the Alaska village’s sewage lagoon. Alaska State Troopers say Daphne Mochin was taken by emergency flight to Anchorage, but died from the effects of drowning. Troopers say the girl and two friends climbed under a fence …
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TIPTONVILLE, Tenn. – Eight prisoners have been injured in stabbings at a prison in northwest Tennessee amid tensions between gangs and a shortage of correctional officers. The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/1LFyEJ7) the stabbings occurred Friday at Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville. The Tennessee Department of Correction-run prison has been put on …
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PARIS – Over the past week, French farmers have used tractors to block the border with Germany and chucked foreign vegetables off trucks in protest of cheap imports. French leaders did not call in the police — they gave the farmers their support. France’s permissive attitude toward protest has cultural …
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VINITA, Okla. – A day care center in northeast Oklahoma has shut its doors after a mother reported her two sons were severely sunburned during an outing to a local splash pad. Department of Human Services spokeswoman Debra Martin said Tuesday the Happiness is a Learning Center day care in …
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