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Baltimore police officer waves right to jury trial BALTIMORE – The Baltimore officer who faces the most serious charge in the death of Freddie Gray in police custody waived his right to a ju...

DATE: Jun 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Tropical Storm Colin gains strength as it nears Florida

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Tropical Storm Colin was gaining speed and strength Monday on its way to strike Florida, threatening rains forecasters said could cause some serious flooding along much o...

DATE: Jun 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Vets, families remember Normandy D-Day landings, 72 years on

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France – Proud veterans in their 90s and families of fallen soldiers are commemorating the epochal D-Day invasion of Normandy 72 years ago that helped the Allies vanquish...

DATE: Jun 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Prosecutor: No charges against mom of boy in gorilla exhibit

CINCINNATI – A prosecutor said Monday that he isn’t seeking charges against the mother of a 3-year-old boy who got into the Cincinnati Zoo’s gorilla exhibit, resulting in the shooting of an ...

DATE: Jun 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump calls scolding by Newt Gingrich ‘inappropriate’

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump said Monday it was “inappropriate” for Newt Gingrich to demand he drop the subject of an American judge’s ethnicity and start acting like “a potential leader of the...

DATE: Jun 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

3 dead, 10 hospitalized as 1 Belgian train runs into another

HERMALLE-SOUS-HUY, Belgium – A passenger train slammed at high speed into a slow-moving freight train in eastern Belgium, killing three people and sending 10 others to the hospital, authorit...

DATE: Jun 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Floodwaters begin receding in Paris

PARIS – The riverside Grand Palais exhibition hall in Paris reopened Sunday as floodwaters slowly receded from the French capital, after the worst floods in three decades caused the Seine Ri...

DATE: Jun 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Weather helps with California blaze

Fire causing air problems in southern valleys

DATE: Jun 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Police seek clues to crime jump

Some blame loss of public trust in poice

DATE: Jun 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

Clinton nears vote total with Puerto Rico win SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Hillary Clinton overwhelmed Bernie Sanders in Puerto Rico’s Democratic presidential primary on Sunday, putting her withi...

DATE: Jun 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World