Murray Wood: Local radio is strong. Corporate ownership, not so much
Murray Wood says Rogers closed some stations that should be very viable. As a result, more communities are losing import...
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Biden criticizes pace of vaccine rollout, vows to accelerate
WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden criticized the Trump administration Tuesday for the pace of distributing COVID-19 vaccines and predicted that "things will get worse before they get better...
Dec 29, 2020
Statue of slave kneeling before Lincoln is removed in Boston
A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet - optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice - has been removed from its perch in downtow...
Dec 29, 2020
Inmate who survived execution attempt dies; COVID suspected
COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio death row inmate who survived an attempt to execute him by lethal injection in 2009 died Monday of possible complications of COVID-19, the state prisons system said. At the ti...
Dec 29, 2020
Federal judge in Iowa ridicules Trump's pardons
IOWA CITY, Iowa - A federal judge in Iowa who has warned against political corruption is ridiculing President Donald Trump's pardons, including those issued to convicted Republican campaign operatives...
Dec 29, 2020
'60 Minutes' keeps on the news and is rewarded by viewers
NEW YORK - One of television's hottest shows is also among its oldest. It's not the first time that's been said about "60 Minutes" since its 1968 debut. In the frenzied news year of 2020, however, the...
Dec 29, 2020
French designer Pierre Cardin, licensing pioneer, dies at 98
PARIS - French fashion designer Pierre Cardin possessed a wildly inventive artistic sensibility tempered by a stiff dose of business sense. He had no problem acknowledging that he earned more from a p...
Dec 29, 2020
6.3 earthquake kills 7 in Croatia, leaves others missing
PETRINJA, Croatia - A strong earthquake in Croatia destroyed buildings and killed at least seven people Tuesday southwest of the capital, displacing scores of area residents or making them afraid to s...
Dec 29, 2020
Nashville bomber left hints of trouble, but motive elusive
NASHVILLE - In the days before he detonated a bomb in downtown Nashville on Christmas, Anthony Quinn Warner changed his life in ways that suggest he never intended to survive the blast that killed him...
Dec 29, 2020
Each year, 1,000 Pakistani girls forcibly converted to Islam
KARACHI, Pakistan - Neha loved the hymns that filled her church with music. But she lost the chance to sing them last year when, at the age of 14, she was forcibly converted from Christianity to Islam...
Dec 28, 2020
US cuts military aid to El Salvador amid intense lobbying
MIAMI - The U.S. is slashing foreign military aid to El Salvador despite staunchly pro-American President Nayib Bukele's intense lobbying in Washington to counter criticism he has taken his country do...
Dec 28, 2020
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