Authorities in Mexico say a phone call to Domino’s Pizza helped them find a teen fugitive who’s known for using an “affluenza” defense. Ethan Couch, now 18, was placed on probation in Texas after a deadly drunken driving wreck. He fled the U.S. with his mother as authorities began investigating… Read More
France opens massive WWII archives to the public
Hundreds of thousands of files on members of the French resistance, communists and Jews hunted by the collaborationist Vichy government in France during World War II are now accessible to the public. The French government has opened police and legal archives, allowing free access to documents from the regime that… Read More
TV star busted on child porn charges
Authorities say former “Glee” star Mark Salling has been arrested in Los Angeles for investigation of possessing child pornography. Police Officer Tony Im says the 33-year-old actor was taken into custody Tuesday after a warrant was served at his home in the Sunland area. Im says Salling had been investigated… Read More
Migrants demand to be relocated…. because of ghosts!
Sweden’s migration agency says 35 asylum-seekers have asked to be relocated from a refugee center because they believe it’s haunted by ghosts. Migration Agency officials said Wednesday the asylum-seekers were spooked by flickering lights and noise in the plumbing system at the facility in Grannaforsa, a small village in Smaland… Read More
90-year-old barber hangs up the clippers
A 90-year-old Rhode Island barber is putting down his clippers after 68 years. Tony Manzi has cut five generations of hair at Manzi’s Barber Shop in Cranston. The Providence Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1QTeSgg ) the man known locally as Tony the Barber is set to retire Thursday. Manzi says he’s “down… Read More
Better late than never? Winter weather reaches Northeast
Winter weather that spun off a series of deadly storms in the Midwest brought the season’s first big punch to the Northeast on Tuesday, with snow, sleet and freezing rain greasing roads, sending drivers spinning and keeping people indoors amid sub-freezing temperatures. Across southern Maine, about 4 to 6 inches… Read More
African country finally beats back Ebola
Guinea was declared Ebola-free on Tuesday, a huge step in the fight against the world’s largest Ebola epidemic. The West African country is where Ebola emerged two years ago, later spreading to neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone. No new known cases have been reported anywhere in the world in at… Read More
‘Til prison do you part! Husband and wife terror team convicted
A husband and wife interested in helping Islamic State extremists have been convicted of planning a large-scale bombing of civilian targets in London to mark the 10th anniversary of the July 7, 2005, attacks on the city’s transit system. Mohammed Rehman, 25, and his wife Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, were… Read More
Trump campaign set to unveil its secret weapon
He’s built commanding double-digit leads in national polls and has garnered more publicity than nearly any presidential candidate in recent history. But now it appears billionaire GOP hopeful Donald Trump is getting ready to deploy the next weapon in his campaign arsenal — a massive advertising campaign meant to put… Read More
Clinton email bombshell coming New Year’s Eve
It looks like Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be ringing in the New Year the way she usually does — mired in scandal. Reports have surfaced that the State Department is planning to drop a New Year’s Eve bombshell by releasing thousands more emails from Clinton’s tenure as Secretary… Read More