By Kate Brumback The Associated Press ATLANTA — Police just outside Atlanta say a notorious 86-year-old jewel thief has struck again. Doris Payne was arrested Tuesday at a Von Maur department store after she put a $1,995 diamond necklace in her back pocket and tried to leave the store, Dunwoody […]
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iBook charts for week ending December 11, 2016 (Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher ):iBooks US Bestseller List — Paid Books 1. Womanizer by Katy Evans – 9780997263619 – (KT PUBLISHING LLC) 2. No Man’s Land by David Baldacci – 9781455586493 – (Grand Central Publishing) 3. The Whistler […]
The Associated Press MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — “Pokemon Go,” the Olympics and the presidential election are among Google’s top trending searches of 2016. Powerball tops the list. The multi-state lottery handed out a record $1.6 billion prize in January and a $429 million payout in June. Also in the top […]
The Associated Press HERSHEY, Pa. — Hershey’s Chocolate World is gearing up for its 100 millionth visitor. The free attraction in eastern Pennsylvania offers a behind-the-scenes look at the history of the iconic chocolate company and now the media group LNP reports officials are planning to commemorate the milestone visit. […]
By Joan Lowy The Associated Press WASHINGTON — All new cars and light trucks would be able to talk wirelessly with each other, with traffic lights and with other roadway infrastructure under a rule the Transportation Department proposed Tuesday. Officials say the technology holds the potential to dramatically reduce traffic […]
The Associated Press STAMFORD, Conn. — Cuisinart is voluntarily recalling about 8 million food processors after dozens of consumers reported finding pieces of broken blades in their food. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says there have been 30 reports of mouth lacerations or tooth injuries from the broken blades. Cuisinart’s […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press A friend recently became a first-time grandmother, and when we went out to lunch she was exhausted. She had been cooking meals for the new parents, and collapsed into her chair saying she hadn’t finished making a moussaka before she had to leave. “You,” […]
By Sophia Tareen The Associated Press HICAGO — Heckel Villa noticed something different as tens of thousands of Catholics made their annual pilgrimage to a suburban Chicago shrine to Mexico’s revered patron saint. As always, they brought daily concerns about family and health, but the daughter of Mexican immigrants who’s […]
The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — Top nuclear envoys from South Korea, the United States and Japan pledged Tuesday to implement new sanctions against North Korea, including capping the country’s coal exports to choke off cash flowing into its nuclear weapons program. After meeting in Seoul, the envoys […]
The Associated Press BEIJING — Another “supermoon” has landed in the skies over China. The moon shone brightly Tuesday night in Beijing, as the smog that often blankets China’s capital and most of the industrial north in winter subsided for the evening. The supermoon phenomenon occurs when the moon, which […]
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Christmas gifts arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday, courtesy of Japan. A Japanese cargo ship pulled up at the orbiting lab four days after launching. The capsule ‚Äî called Kounotori, or white stork ‚Äî contains nearly 5 tons […]
The Associated Press ROME — A judge in Sicily has convicted a ship captain and crew member in the April 2015 sinking that left 700 people dead in one of the Mediterranean’s worst migrant disasters. The Tunisian captain, Mohammad Ali Malek, was sentenced to 18 years in prison and fined […]
