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Funeral held for Beth Chapman of 'Dog the Bounty Hunter'

AURORA, Colo. - Friends and family of the late "Dog the Bounty Hunter" reality TV show co-star Beth Chapman are gathering in Colorado to remember her life. Funeral services in Chapman's home state of ...

Jul 13, 2019

Purl jam: Finland hosts heavy metal knitting championship

JOENSUU, Finland - Armed with needles and a yarn of wool, teams of avid knitters danced Thursday to the deafening sounds of drums beating and guitars slashing at the first-ever Heavy Metal Knitting Wo...

Jul 13, 2019

Rattlesnake, uranium, whiskey found during traffic stop

GUTHRIE, Okla. - Police in Oklahoma say they found a rattlesnake, a canister of radioactive powdered uranium and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe whiskey during a traffic stop of a vehicle that had b...

Jul 13, 2019

Halep star struck at meeting duchesses at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, England - Simona Halep joined the list of tennis royalty at Wimbledon on Saturday, then got a bit star struck at meeting the real thing. Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Meghan, the...

Jul 13, 2019

Trump applauds far-right social media provocateurs

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump used a White House conference Thursday to applaud far-right social media provocateurs even as he conceded that some of them are extreme in their views. Trump, who h...

Jul 13, 2019

White man indicted in killing of black teen over rap music

PHOENIX - A white man who authorities say was out of prison for two days when he stabbed a black teen on July 4th because he felt threatened by the youth's rap music at a suburban Phoenix convenience ...

Jul 13, 2019

Film airing on PBS recalls city's dark deportation history

BISBEE, Ariz. - The darkest, most violent chapter in the history of Bisbee was an open secret for decades in the funky old Arizona copper town 7 miles (11 kilometres) north of the U.S.-Mexico border. ...

Jul 13, 2019

Taylor Swift shakes off drama with fun concert performance

NEW YORK - In her first public appearance since discovering her masters were in the hands of someone she's not a fan of, Taylor Swift didn't directly address the issue, but she did play music from tha...

Jul 13, 2019

Judge approves new Weinstein legal team led by #MeToo critic

NEW YORK - A judge gave Harvey Weinstein the green light Thursday to shake up his defence team yet again - this time a mere two months before the disgraced movie mogul whose case inspired the #MeToo m...

Jul 13, 2019

UK Labour Party in turmoil over new anti-Semitism claims

LONDON - Britain's main opposition Labour Party was in turmoil Thursday after a television documentary renewed allegations that anti-Semitism is rife within its ranks. In the BBC program, former staff...

Jul 13, 2019