Murray Wood: Drop in reading rates a sad trend to see
New data suggests people are spending less time reading for pleasure. Murray Wood says it's sad that people are drawn to...
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Amid coronavirus news, many need to step away
NEW YORK - Heidi Van Roekel makes instructional art videos for YouTube when coronavirus news overwhelms her. Bill Webb takes his boat out. Stacy Mitchell searches her TV for something - anything - to ...
May 10, 2020
Little Richard, flamboyant rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, dead at 87
NASHVILLE - Little Richard, one of the chief architects of rock 'n' roll whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to...
May 09, 2020
Robert Caro writes, and waits, during the COVID-19 outbreak
NEW YORK - On most days since the coronavirus spread through Manhattan, Robert Caro has held to a familiar routine. He rises early, walks to his office down the street, spends hours on the fifth and f...
May 09, 2020
SeaWorld develops plans for reopening; no official date set
ORLANDO, Fla. - SeaWorld guests could be sitting in every other row of the stadium to watch orca shows when the parks eventually reopen, the company's CEO said Friday. Interim CEO Marc Swanson gave an...
May 09, 2020
Tekashi 6ix9ine releases new video from home confinement
NEW YORK - Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine lit up social media on Friday, releasing a new song and video created during his home confinement just weeks after being freed from a Manhattan federal lockup over co...
May 08, 2020
Man to plead guilty to romance con of 'black-ish' star
LOS ANGELES - A man accused of romancing "black-ish" star Jenifer Lewis and three other women to con them out of money for his phoney businesses agreed Friday to plead guilty to a federal charge of wi...
May 08, 2020
Fore! 'Caddyshack' ranks No. 4 on AP sports movie list
DAVIE, Fla. - It happens all the time. Someone will pull up to the big metal gate in front of the clubhouse, press the intercom button and ask to see Bushwood Country Club. Or they'll start dancing on...
May 08, 2020
Alaska school board postpones decision on banned books
PALMER, Alaska - An Alaska school board postponed a vote over rescinding a ban on selected English course books after taking public testimony on the issue that attracted national attention when a Gram...
May 08, 2020
Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider-Esleben dies aged 73
BERLIN - Florian Schneider-Esleben, a co-founder of German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk, has died, record label Sony said Wednesday. He was 73. Citing fellow group founder Ralf Huetter, Sony sa...
May 06, 2020
New anthology collects dozens of poems about pandemic
NEW YORK - As the coronavirus spread in March, poet Ada Limon struggled at first to write, feeling "flattened and silenced" by a pandemic that had shut down much of the world she knew. "I could call n...
May 06, 2020
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