LONDON (AP) — Two English cities are doing battle over the bones of King Richard III. This week scientists announced that a skeleton found under a parking lot in the city of Leicester belonged to the king, who died in 1485. Officials say he will now be reburied in Leicester Cathedral. But York, 100 miles […]

LONDON (AP) — Researchers say that Britain’s new Antarctic base will be movable — capable of sliding across the ice on ski-clad stilts. The innovation will enable researchers to keep one step ahead of the southern continent’s shifting ice and pounding snows. The British Antarctic Survey says that the Halley VI Research Station is located […]

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Researchers in Iceland are blaming low oxygen levels in a shallow fjord for the death of tens of thousands of tons of herring. Thousands of dead herring have been found in Kolgrafafjordur fjord for the second time this winter, raising concerns about Iceland’s fishery. Morgunbladid newspaper estimated the value of the […]

As FBI and police negotiators sought for days to coax an Alabama man into freeing a kindergartner held hostage in an underground bunker, the captor was planning for violence, authorities say. He rigged the bunker with explosives, tried to reinforce it against any raid, and when SWAT agents stormed the shelter Monday to rescue the […]

Town councilors Tuesday approved elimination of parking along Hunter Road near the ballfields and weighed options to address storm water management there. Deeming the street too narrow and the shoulder drop-off too steep, councilors approved a parking ban running the length of the athletic fields driveway, as well as for 700 feet of Hunter Road […]