Costs double around project to repair London's Big Ben
LONDON (AP) — British authorities say the cost of repairing the tower that houses London's famous Big Ben has doubled.
LONDON (AP) — British authorities say the cost of repairing the tower that houses London's famous Big Ben has doubled.
Jogging strollers with faulty leg brackets are among this week's recalled consumer products. Others include sports helmets with faulty buckles and gas grills with faulty regulators.
CHICAGO (AP) — Jake Arrieta will likely miss his final regular-season start for the Chicago Cubs.
CALEDONIA, Minn. -- Mildred “Millie” Briggs, 87, of Caledonia died Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, at Bethany Riverside Nursing Facility, La Crosse. Funeral services 11 a.m. Tuesday, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Caledonia. Burial will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation 9 a.m.…
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Russian mobile communications provider MTS says it has suspended operations in the Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan after a state telecommunications company cut its access to services.
CEDARTOWN, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a Georgia police officer has been shot.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Scores of Catalan farmers on tractors rumbled into downtown Barcelona on Friday, driving down the city's broad boulevards in a show of support for a potentially explosive vote on whether the prosperous region should break away…
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraq's military was preparing to take control of the international borders of the northern Kurdish region as a flight ban halted all international flights from servicing the territory's airports on Friday as the central government in…
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on Catalonia's plans to hold a referendum Sunday on breaking away from Spain (all times local):
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church is holding its twice-a-year conference this weekend amid a tumultuous political climate in the U.S. and without the participation of its ailing 90-year-old president.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson will live in Florida following his parole from a Nevada prison where the former football star and celebrity criminal defendant has been held for the past nine years after a robbery conviction, his lawyer…
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Connie Francis' decades-long career was marked by all the glittering things of Hollywood royalty. There were No. 1 hit songs, iconic movies, Hollywood boyfriends, glamorous gowns and TV appearances on "American Bandstand" and "The Ed…
LONDON (AP) — London's transport authority said Friday its commissioner will meet with the chief executive of Uber next week.
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) — Board members of South Carolina's state-owned utility has met to discuss appointing an interim CEO after the failure of a multibillion-dollar nuclear power project, but made no decision.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In less than a decade, Iowa Democrats have withered, from in-charge to almost irrelevant.
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The Latest on the European Union leaders' summit in Estonia (all times local):
FITCHBURG, Wis. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says President Donald Trump's tax cuts don't simplify the nation's tax code but he'll support them if they'll help the economy grow.
CLEVELAND (AP) — White nationalist Richard Spencer is threatening to sue two Ohio universities if they refuse to rent him campus space to speak.
CHICAGO (AP) — An executive at a major Minnesota-based fitness firm and eight others are accused in a new federal indictment of using insider information to scoop up stocks before word of the company's sale in 2015 pushed share prices…
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Packers receiver Davante Adams tweeted Friday that he was at home and "feeling great" a day after taking a frightening hit from Chicago Bears linebacker Danny Trevathan.
LONG BEACH, Miss. (AP) — A former Mississippi police officer whose daughter died in a hot car has been indicted on a second-degree-murder charge.
TOWN OF EMPIRE, Wis. (AP) — The Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office is investigating the deaths of two people at a residence in the Town of Empire.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Police in Canada have issued an arrest warrant for the Vatican diplomat who was recalled from the United States in a child pornography investigation, accusing him of downloading porn over Christmas last year.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump pledged a relentless effort to help Puerto Ricans recover from hurricane devastation Friday after his homeland security chief stirred a tempest of her own making by declaring the federal response a "good news story."
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Canada police have issued an arrest warrant for a recalled Vatican diplomat in a child porn case.