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Memphis pastor prays for continued peace after video release MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Members of Mt. Olive Cathedral Church in Memphis gathered to worship Sunday, two days after Tyre Nichols’ parents used the sanctuary to call for peace following the release of video showing their son's fatal beating...
Baby girl found abandoned in Florida an hour after birth

MULBERRY, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities found a newborn girl wrapped in a blanket and still attached to a placenta on a hill outside a trailer park early Saturday morning. Polk County deputies responding to...
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 2:53 p.m. EST

Hurts, Purdy set for college-era rematch in NFC title tilt PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Quarterbacks Jalen Hurts and Brock Purdy have been here before. Just not in the NFL. The two met in November 2019, when Hurts was the QB for Oklahoma and Purdy was the QB for Iowa State. In that game, Hurts passed for...
As I remember it: My first marriage

I look forward to Anne Adam's articles in the Athens Review as she delves into events & places in the early history of our city and county. Having been here a few years, I can relate to many of her writings and on several occasions have been inspired to write sharing my remembrances. Anne's most...
IU Review: Five takeaways from Indiana's 86-70 win over Ohio State

How do you know you might be outstepping your expertise as a reporter? One clue might be peering up at a video board after Indiana's 86-70 win over Ohio State on Saturday. This wasn't a search for the final score, so what was I looking for? A metal bar fell on the Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall floor...
Memphis pastor prays for continued peace after video release

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Members of Mt. Olive Cathedral Church in Memphis gathered for worship on Sunday, two days after Tyre Nichols’ parents spoke from the sanctuary and called for peace following the release of video showing their son's fatal beating at the hands of police. “We’ve had calm so far,...
AP News Summary at 2:29 p.m. EST

Memphis pastor prays for continued peace after video release MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Members of Mt. Olive Cathedral Church in Memphis gathered to worship Sunday, two days after Tyre Nichols’ parents used the sanctuary to call for peace following the release of video showing their son's fatal beating...
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 2:20 p.m. EST

Hurts, Purdy set for college-era rematch in NFC title tilt PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Quarterbacks Jalen Hurts and Brock Purdy have been here before. Just not in the NFL. The two met in November 2019, when Hurts was the QB for Oklahoma and Purdy was the QB for Iowa State. In that game, Hurts passed for...
Ryan Reynolds goes through range of emotions in FA Cup match

Ryan Reynolds went from joy to despair, and punch-the-air ecstasy to desolation. The unlikely new love of his life — Welsh soccer club Wrexham — put the movie star on an emotional roller coaster Sunday in a thrill-a-minute FA Cup match that had an ending not quite in the script. Wrexham, the...
Police: 1 of 2 boys recovered after Amber Alert has died

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — One of the twin Ohio boys who became the center of a statewide AMBER Alert that garnered nationwide attention last month has died, authorities said. Columbus police said officers were sent to a home shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday on a report of a baby not...
Trustees picked by DeSantis may change progressive college

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — “Your education. Your way. Be original. Be you.” That's how New College of Florida describes its approach to higher education in an admission brochure. The state school of fewer than 1,000 students nestled along Sarasota Bay has long been known for its progressive thought and...
AP News Summary at 2:02 p.m. EST

Memphis pastor prays for continued peace after video release MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Members of Mt. Olive Cathedral Church in Memphis gathered to worship Sunday, two days after Tyre Nichols’ parents used the sanctuary to call for peace following the release of video showing their son's fatal beating...
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 2:09 p.m. EST

Hurts, Purdy set for college-era rematch in NFC title tilt PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Quarterbacks Jalen Hurts and Brock Purdy have been here before. Just not in the NFL. The two met in November 2019, when Hurts was the QB for Oklahoma and Purdy was the QB for Iowa State. In that game, Hurts passed for...
AP News Summary at 1:31 p.m. EST

Tyre Nichols case revives calls for change in police culture MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police video of the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols by officers in Memphis, Tennessee, is hard to watch. The images are a glaring reminder of repeated failures of efforts to prevent police brutality. Nearly 32 years...
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 1:15 p.m. EST

Hurts, Purdy set for college-era rematch in NFC title tilt PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Quarterbacks Jalen Hurts and Brock Purdy have been here before. Just not in the NFL. The two met in November 2019, when Hurts was the QB for Oklahoma and Purdy was the QB for Iowa State. In that game, Hurts passed for...
Georgia's Bennett arrested in Texas for public intoxication

DALLAS (AP) — Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett, who led the Bulldogs to their second straight national championship, was arrested early Sunday after police said he was intoxicated and banging on doors. Bennett, 25, was charged with public intoxication and taken to the...
Kentucky gospel singer reflects on performing at Presley's funeral

The most recent celebrity passing to make headlines was that of Lisa Marie Presley — daughter of iconic singer Elvis Presley — who died on January 12 at age 54. And a member of the Nancy community was able to pay his respects to her in the most appropriate way possible — through the gift of music....
Protesters: 'Cop City' activist's killing doesn't make sense

ATLANTA (AP) — Tortuguita’s cautious voice rang out from a platform amid the tall pines the first time Vienna met them: “Who goes there?” she remembers them calling. The tree-dweller, who chose the moniker Tortuguita – Spanish for “Little Turtle” – over their given name, was perched above the forest...
Elon Musk's mysterious ways on display in Tesla tweet trial

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk’s enigmatic personality and unconventional tactics are emerging as key exhibits in a trial revolving around one of his most polarizing pursuits — tweeting. The trial, centered on a pair of tweets announcing Musk had obtained the money to take Tesla private in 2018,...
AP News Summary at 1:03 p.m. EST

Tyre Nichols case revives calls for change in police culture MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police video of the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols by officers in Memphis, Tennessee, is hard to watch. The images are a glaring reminder of repeated failures of efforts to prevent police brutality. Nearly 32 years...
AP News Summary at 12:14 p.m. EST

Tyre Nichols case revives calls for change in police culture MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police video of the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols by officers in Memphis, Tennessee, is hard to watch. The images are a glaring reminder of repeated failures of efforts to prevent police brutality. Nearly 32 years...
AP News Summary at 11:52 a.m. EST

Tyre Nichols case revives calls for change in police culture MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police video of the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols by officers in Memphis, Tennessee, is hard to watch. The images are a glaring reminder of repeated failures of efforts to prevent police brutality. Nearly 32 years...
AP News Summary at 10:58 a.m. EST

Tyre Nichols case revives calls for change in police culture MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police video of the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols by officers in Memphis, Tennessee, is hard to watch. The images are a glaring reminder of repeated failures of efforts to prevent police brutality. Nearly 32 years...
Should federal grants favor highway repair over expansion?

Arizona officials refer to a notoriously congested stretch of desert highway through tribal land as the Wild Horse Pass Corridor, a label that's less about horses than the bustling casino by the same name located just north of where the interstate constricts to four lanes. With the Gila River Indian...
Master Gardener: Start planning your landscape with a drive

On the days it is too cold or rainy to go outside and enjoy your garden, take a drive. Look at landscapes. Notice plants. When you return home, pretend it is the house of a stranger. Is your landscape pleasing? Do you have enough evergreens in front to make your landscape still look beautiful even...
AP News Summary at 10:54 a.m. EST

Tyre Nichols case revives calls for change in police culture MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police video of the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols by officers in Memphis, Tennessee, is hard to watch. The images are a glaring reminder of repeated failures of efforts to prevent police brutality. Nearly 32 years...
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 10:54 a.m. EST

Hurts, Purdy set for college-era rematch in NFC title tilt PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Quarterbacks Jalen Hurts and Brock Purdy have been here before. Just not in the NFL. The two met in November 2019, when Hurts was the QB for Oklahoma and Purdy was the QB for Iowa State. In that game, Hurts passed for...
AP Exclusive: Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talks

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Competing priorities, outsized demands and the federal government's retreat from a threatened deadline stymied a deal last summer on how to drastically reduce water use from the parched Colorado River, emails obtained by The Associated Press show. The documents span the...
AP News Summary at 10:24 a.m. EST

Tyre Nichols case revives calls for change in police culture MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police video of the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols by officers in Memphis, Tennessee, is hard to watch. The images are a glaring reminder of repeated failures of efforts to prevent police brutality. Nearly 32 years...
Gregory Allen Howard who wrote 'Remember the Titans' dies

NEW YORK (AP) — Screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard, who skillfully adapted stories of historical Black figures in “Remember the Titans” starring Denzel Washington, “Ali” with Will Smith and “Harriet” with Cynthia Erivo, has died. He was 70. Howard died Friday at his home in Miami after a brief...
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