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  • Jazz Fest - 'one of the gems' - cranks up in New Orleans

    April 28, 2023 - 7:26 PM

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — This year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival began its two-weekend run on Friday, filling the air with the sounds of R&B, rock 'n roll, Zydeco, pop, blues, country, rap, gospel — and of course jazz.

  • Beetlejuice II filming set in Vermont is haunted by souvenir seekers

    July 21, 2023 - 7:08 AM

    EAST CORINTH, Vt. (AP) — Souvenir hunters are haunting the Beetlejuice II movie set in Vermont.

  • 'A reflection:' Stampede tarp auction an indicator of Alberta's booming economy

    April 14, 2023 - 8:04 AM

    CALGARY - The amount of money that was flowing freely at the annual Calgary Stampede canvas auction Thursday night was just the sort of gusher that Alberta's oil and gas industry likes to see.

  • 'Captain America' fixes hurricane hit roofs in New Orleans

    September 21, 2022 - 2:25 PM

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Actor Anthony Mackie was not carrying his Captain America shield when he returned to his hometown of New Orleans to help repair hurricane-damaged roofs but for people in his old neighborhood knowing their tarp-covered roofs were getting repaired was a blockbuster hit.

  • Driver gets 1 year in jail in death of Nicki Minaj’s father

    August 03, 2022 - 1:17 PM

    MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — The driver in a hit-and-run crash that killed the father of rapper Nicki Minaj last year was sentenced Wednesday to a year in jail, in keeping with a promise the judge made when the man pleaded guilty in May.

  • Black parade culture museum reopening in New Orleans

    July 08, 2022 - 3:45 PM

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten months after Hurricane Ida damaged a museum celebrating New Orleans’ African American parading culture, the Backstreet Cultural Museum is reopening.

  • Driver pleads guilty in crash that killed Nicki Minaj's dad

    May 06, 2022 - 3:31 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — A hit-and-run driver pleaded guilty Friday in a suburban New York a suburban New York crash that killed the father of Nicki Minaj and was promised a year or less in jail, disappointing prosecutors and the hip hop star's mother.

  • Novelist Yu Miri: Olympics not helping Fukushima rebuilding

    December 23, 2020 - 9:48 AM

    TOKYO - Yu Miri, who won this year’s National Book Award for translated literature, says Tokyo’s Ueno Park, where a homeless man kills himself in her award-winning story, looks very clean ahead of next summer's Olympics. Still, she says, that doesn't help to raise hope amid the coronavirus pandemic and the delayed recovery of the disaster-hit Fukushima region.

  • Sunset falls on a historic season for the drive-in

    November 02, 2020 - 4:23 AM

    NEW YORK - Julia Wiggin was still shivering after running out to hang up the weekend’s marquee — “Ghostbusters,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” — at her Northfield Drive-in near Hinsdale, New Hampshire.

  • Screen Shot: NHL play returns with new-look television broadcasts

    August 01, 2020 - 2:57 PM

    The NHL returned Saturday with new-look television broadcasts that included slick yet subtle changes, creating a fresh visual product that was noticeably different at times and downright quirky at others.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the first week of May 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjone

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