BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese woman has died after being trapped in a shopping mall escalator, but not before pushing her 2-yearold son to safety. The horrific accident Sunday in the central city of Jingzhou was caught on surveillance camera footage. The woman — identified in media reports as 30-yearold Xiang Liujuan — had reached […]

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The United States and Turkey are finalizing plans for a military campaign to push the Islamic State out of a strip of land along the Turkey-Syria border, deepening efforts to halt the extremists’ advances. A U.S. official says the “Islamic State-free zone” aims to ensure greater security and stability along […]

BEIJING (AP) — China’s state media are pouring cold water on President Barack Obama’s visit to Africa, saying U.S. attention to the continent is largely due to concern over China’s booming influence there. The Global Times newspaper said today that offsetting China’s growing influence and recovering past U.S. clout were major factors in Obama’s visit. […]

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia President Barack Obama huddled with Ethiopia’s leaders today for talks on counterterrorism, human rights and regional security issues, including the crisis in neighboring South Sudan. Obama’s visit marks the first visit by a sitting U.S. president to Ethiopia. He arrived at the National Palace in the capital of Addis Ababa for a […]

MEDELLIN, Colombia The last contact Margarita Restrepo had with her daughter was a hurried phone call on Oct. 25, 2002. The school day was over and 17-year-old Carol Vanesa was going to meet friends at a metro stop near the sprawling Comuna 13 hillside slum. Restrepo and her children had fled the violent Medellin neighborhood […]

PORTLAND, ORE. Portland may be known for fashionable hipsters, devotion to public transit, locally sourced chickens and artisanal food carts. But a part of this city by the river counters the narrative of livable, weird, predominantly white ‘Portlandia.’ Long-overlooked by visitors and many locals, East Portland stretches far from downtown, on the city’s eastern edge. […]

LAFAYETTE, LA. One was a talented artist who sang in an all-female band and planted trees to beautify her neighborhood. Another was studying to be a radiology technician and looking forward to a future with a longtime boyfriend. Jillian Johnson, 33, and Mayci Breaux, 21, were shot and killed last Thursday while watching the movie […]

BRUNSWICK The dog named Popeye, whose escape from a Freeport home on July 3 sparked its own Facebook page, is home. The miniature Australian shepherd was 3 pounds lighter and snoozing heavily as Rod Salguero and his wife, Ashley Perkins, drove home to Brooklyn, New York, after Salguero found the pup on School Street on […]

Clark University The following local residents have received a degree from Clark University on May 17: Mitchell Cameron Perry, of Brunswick, Maine graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English Luke A. Carter, of Brunswick, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Jasper J. Boyd, of Brunswick, Maine […]