MEXICO CITY — The death toll in a bus crash in northern Mexico has risen to 20, as questions emerge about whether a double-tanker fuel truck may have caused the accident. The state government of Hidalgo, where eight of the victims were from, said late Saturday the crash also killed […]
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1 dead after motorboat flips at Grand Canyon National Park
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — One person has died after a motorboat flipped on the Colorado River, Grand Canyon National Park officials said. The boat overturned shortly after 2 p.m. Saturday and emergency medical personnel treated and transported injured patients, park officials said. It was unclear how many people […]
New York woman gets prison term for altercation aboard plane
PHOENIX — A New York woman has been sentenced to four months in prison for interfering with crew members aboard a flight from Dallas to Los Angeles last year that had to be diverted to Phoenix, according to federal prosecutors. They said Kelly Pichardo and another first-class passenger engaged in […]
Mother’s boyfriend arrested in killing of California girl, 8
MERCED, Calif. — After a months-long manhunt, police arrested a suspect in the death of an 8-year-old girl who had been reported missing before her body was found last March inside a central California home, authorities said Sunday. Dhante Jackson was taken into custody Saturday in the San Francisco Bay […]
Thousands protest planned Pride gathering in Serbia
BELGRADE, Serbia — Thousands of opponents of a pan-European LGBTQ event planned for this week in Belgrade marched through the Serbian capital on Sunday despite an announced ban of Europe’s largest annual gay gathering. The procession called by the conservative Serbian Orthodox Church and led by its clergy included anti-Western […]
Palestinian man left beaten, bloodied by Israeli police
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian man who is seen in an amateur video lying face down, bloody and motionless, as an Israeli policeman kneels on his neck, said Sunday that Israeli forces beat and detained him without provocation as he headed to pray at Jerusalem’s chief Muslim shrine. Yousef Adi, 36, […]
Prince Andrew to care for the queen’s corgis
A close member of the royal family will care for Queen Elizabeth’s beloved corgis, ABC News has learned. Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, will look after the dogs after they return to live with him and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, at Royal Lodge in Berkshire, England, a […]
Spanish novelist Javier Marías dies at age 70
Javier Marías, Spain’s most prestigious novelist of the past half century, has died, his publisher said on Sunday MADRID — Javier Marías, Spain’s most prestigious novelist of the past half century, has died, his publisher said Sunday. He was 70. Spanish news agency EFE reported that Marías passed away in […]
As small businesses raise prices, some customers push back
NEW YORK — Inflation isn’t only costing small businesses money. It’s costing them customers as well. At the Bushwick Grind Cafe in Brooklyn, New York, Kymme Williams-Davis has raised prices and switched to different types of goods to keep up with the rising costs of milk, coffee, paper goods and […]
Conservative college’s curriculum gets foothold in S. Dakota
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A few days before middle school teacher Shaun Nielsen joined a work group to develop South Dakota’s social studies standards, he got a thick package in the mail. Sent from Hillsdale, Michigan, home to a conservative private college enjoying outsize influence among top Republicans, it contained […]