Month: October 2024

Associated Press Frank Fritz of the reality TV show “American Pickers” has died. On the History Channel program, Fritz drove around the U.S. looking for antiques and collectibles to buy and resell.  His longtime friend Annette Oberlander said he died Monday night at a hospice facility in  Iowa. She said he was 60. She said

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah has warned that the rockets that struck central Israel were only the beginning and that the militant group is waiting for invading forces to enter Lebanon to confront them. Tuesday’s rocket attack on a suburb of Tel Aviv came as Israel is expected to launch a ground offensive on

Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — It doesn’t feel like Christmas in Venezuela. At least not yet. Even if the president wants it to be. Residents of Caracas, the capital, woke up Tuesday to a towering Christmas tree standing in a popular public square, weeks after President Nicolás Maduro declared the jolly season would start

AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Sal Frelick returned to the Milwaukee Brewers’ lineup for the start of the playoffs without needing to worry about hitting any metal if he crashed into a wall again. Frelick bruised his hip Friday when his left side made contact with the metal chain link inside a window in

AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Page, a stage and screen actor who starred alongside Beyoncé in “Dreamgirls,” introduced Broadway audiences to Old Deuteronomy in “Cats” and scared generations of kids as the voice of Oogie Boogie, the villain of the 1993 animated holiday film ”The Nightmare Before Christmas,″ has died. He was

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Private, nonprofit colleges in California will be banned from giving preference in the admissions process to applicants related to alumni or donors of the school under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The goal of the measure passed earlier this year by legislators is to give students a fair

Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi attorney general  requesting an execution date for the state’s longest-serving death row inmate. Richard Gerald Jordan is 78. He was sentenced to death in 1976 for the kidnapping and killing of Edwina Marter that year in Harrison County. The Mississippi Supreme Court rejected his latest appeal Tuesday.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrats and Republicans in Wisconsin have selected their 2024 presidential electors. Each party’s legislative caucus and legislative candidates met in the state Capitol on Tuesday morning to select the people who will represent voters in the presidential election. The winner of the popular vote in each state determines which party’s electors

Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A federal government watchdog is blasting the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for failing to timely report human rights violations committed by Latin American law enforcement partners who admitted to torturing crime suspects. The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General published an advisory memorandum on the issue Tuesday. It centers

Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A judge rolled back Georgia’s abortion ban this week, but it’s not expected to be the final word. The state attorney general’s office has said it would appeal Monday’s ruling to the Georgia Supreme Court. And the state high court could put the ban on abortions after cardiac activity

Technology reporter Taylor Lorenz says she’s leaving The Washington Post, less than two months after the newspaper began a review of a social media post that involved President Joe Biden. Lorenz says she’s launching a Substack. Lorenz had attended a White House event in August and reportedly posted a selfie to some followers on Instagram