200-pound tortoise is back home after escaping Alabama pen
SARDIS CITY, Ala. — A 200-pound tortoise named Sparkplug that escaped from a pen in Alabama is back home after a journey across two...
Turkish media report explosion in town near Syrian border
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s state-run news agency said there has been an explosion in a town near the border with Syria Monday but there...
Detroit Schools is released from 11 years of state oversight
DETROIT — A commission on Monday released the 47,000-student Detroit Public Schools from more than a decade of state financial oversight,...
GOP US Senate candidate Jason Lewis rushed into surgery
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis has been rushed into emergency surgery for a severe internal hernia....
