At a lunch table overlooking the bustle of Times Square on Saturday afternoon, Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck smiled after he misspoke.
He told a table full of reporters that he was enjoying his experience in New York because one did not get too many chances to get an all-expenses-paid trip to Manhattan. After an awkward pause, a round of laughter filled the room.
FREDON — The final day of the state's bear hunt brought more than 160 protesters to the Whittingham Wildlife Management Area, where a handful of hunters brought their kills to be weighed and measured.
The weeklong hunt, allowed by the state to manage the estimated population of 3,400 bears in northwestern New Jersey, saw 562 bears killed through early Saturday evening, state Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesman Larry Ragonese said.
KUSHCHEVSKAYA, Russia — The flowers outside the Ametov family’s house in this small farm town have wilted, but two jumpy police officers standing sentry by the wrought-iron gate offer fresh testimony to the horror of what occurred inside.
RAMADI, Iraq, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- At least 17 people were killed and 23 others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack and a car bomb explosion outside Anbar provincial government offices on Sunday, a local police source said.
The two blasts occurred almost simultaneously at about 10:15 a. m. (0715 GMT) when a suicide bomber drove a four-wheel vehicle packed with explosives to the entrance of the complex of Anbar government in central area of the provincial capital city Ramadi, killing seven, including policemen, and wounding nine others, a source from the provincial operations command told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
 CNN International (CNN) -- A failed terrorist attack in a central Stockholm district full of Christmas shoppers could have been catastrophic, Swedish authorities said late Saturday. Police are investigating whether two explosions in Stockholm, an e-mail threat sent ... See all stories on this topic » |
