APATZINGAN, Mexico (AP) — On a steamy night, a farmer from a village of modest tin-roofed homes surrounded by rolling lime orchards in western Mexico’s coastal mountains approached Rev. Gilberto Vergara for help. The drug cartels were extorting him and other growers so heavily that the ...
AP Photo Two Russian bear give subway construction workers a paw (hand) as they stump for publicity in Washington, Friday, Dec. 5, 1975. The Soviet Circus opens in the nation’s capital.
WASHINGTON (AP) — On Friday afternoon, the Kennedy Center, best known for its theater, opera and ballet, will be the unlikely center of the sports world when the matchups for next year’s World Cup are announced there. By Sunday, in a quick pivot, the venue will assume its more traditional ...
The owners of an all-girls summer camp in the Texas Hill Country, where 25 campers and two teenage counselors died in catastrophic July 4 flooding, announced plans on Tuesday for new safety upgrades that will be in place when a portion of the camp opens next summer. Camp Mystic owners said in ...
As a tiny seedling began sprouting in the forest along Mount Rose Highway west of Reno, the Vietnam War was ending under President Gerald Ford, the price of gas was 53 cents per gallon and the Kool-Aid man made his first television commercial appearance. Today, 50 years later, that ...
AP Photo/Henry Burroughs Hermann Goering, center, makes copious notes while Rudolf Hess, sitting beside him, dozes off during the proceedings of the war crimes trial at Nuremberg on Dec. 4, 1945.