TAOS, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say searchers have found the body of a former White House chef who had been missing for more than a week after going hiking in the New Mexico mountains. The New Mexico State Patrol says the body of 61- year-old Walter Scheib was found Sunday night near a hiking trail […]

GULF BREEZE, Fla. (AP) — Federal officials filed a complaint accusing the owners of a Florida zoo of failing to properly care for the animals. The charges by the U.S. Department of Agriculture say the 50-acre Gulf Breeze Zoo wasn’t properly supervised when a child was bitten by a camel. The tiger enclosure didn’t have […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say 10 people were injured at a Philadelphia cookout when they were hit by birdshot from a shotgun, and two men are being sought. Witnesses told police that the suspects fired down a block in West Philadelphia’s Belmont neighborhood with a shotgun at least once shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday. Police […]

DANNEMORA, N.Y. State police moved their manhunt for two convicted murderers to an area west of the New York prison from which they boldly escaped more than two weeks ago, as officers began probing the latest reported sighting. Investigators and military trucks converged on Mountain View, a hamlet in Franklin County, late Sunday. Just hours […]

BEIJING Restaurateurs in a southern Chinese town held an annual dog meat festival today despite international criticism of the event as cruel and unhygienic. The Yulin government distanced itself from the festival and announced new restrictions, but eateries reached by telephone reported brisk business during the event ostensibly held to mark the summer solstice. Restaurant […]

BRUSSELS European officials were cautious about the prospects of reaching a comprehensive deal today to keep Greece from defaulting and falling out of the currency union, despite optimism in financial markets. Ahead of an emergency summit in Brussels, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned against expecting too much today, saying “there are still a lot of […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — A United Nations report into the 2014 Gaza war has found that Israel and the Palestinians may have committed war crimes. The much-awaited inquiry was released today. The commission says it gathered “substantial information pointing to serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law” by both sides. Israel launched […]

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Preliminary results in Albania’s municipal elections show the country’s leftist majority is ahead in most municipalities, including the capital Tirana and other main cities. About one-third of the ballots from Sunday’s election have been counted so far. Albanians were voting to elect 61 mayors and 1,600 municipal counselors in a new […]

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish mountaineering club says three of its members have died in a rockslide while climbing in Kyrgyzstan. The Federation of Hiking Groups of Catalonia said in a statement that the three died Sunday while climbing a rock face. The statement today said the three were aged between 18 and 24. They […]