NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Stock Exchange will reopen for regular trading Wednesday after being shut down for two days because of Hurricane Sandy.
The exchange said in a statement Tuesday that...
NEW YORK (AP) — Evoking harrowing memories of Hurricane Katrina, 300 patients were evacuated floor by floor from a premier hospital that lost generator power at the height of superstorm Sandy.
Rescuers...
BERLIN (AP) — Berlin authorities say they shot and killed a 120 kilogram (265-pound) wild boar after it attacked and injured four people including a police officer in a residential neighborhood.
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LONDON (AP) — Anyone who has read a Sherlock Holmes novel can tell you that Scotland Yard equals London police.
Perhaps no longer.
London’s police force may move from its headquarters,...
BRUSSELS (AP) — France, the land of wine, is planning heavy taxes on beer, and that is not going down well with brewers — even in other nations.
President Francois Hollande is pushing through...
MONROE (AP) — Residents have a new bike trail to use in this northeast Louisiana city.
The News-Star reports that the Bon Aire Bike Trail will open Monday with a ribbon cutting at the University...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A marathon project is under way in New Orleans to digitize thousands of time-worn 18th-century French and Spanish legal papers that historians say give the first historical accounts...
FORT POLK (AP) — A new commanding officer is on his way to Central Louisiana to take charge of Fort Polk and the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center in Vernon Parish.
Brig. Gen. Bill Hickman,...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police made dozens of arrests during a rowdy World Series celebration in the hours after the San Francisco Giants clinched the World Series.
The San Francisco Police Department...
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Residents of the town of Labe say riot police fired tear gas at hundreds who gathered to protest the firing of a teacher who allegedly criticized the Guinean government in...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Just 10 when he was arrested for killing his neo-Nazi father, the small, blonde child told police he pulled the gun from a low-lying closet shelf and aimed it at the man’s...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Iranian national symphony orchestra has been disbanded for lack of funds, musicians said Monday, another sign of the effects of Western economic sanctions.
Orchestra members...
