Sweeping views, grass roof for new Statue of Liberty Museum
NEW YORK: A new museum that seemingly rises out of the ground will replace the small exhibition space inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, its grass roof blending with the landscape and...
View ArticleHaiti death toll rises as receding waters reveal more bodies
LES CAYES, Haiti: Haiti’s death toll jumped late Thursday after rescue crews began reaching remote corners cut off when Hurricane Matthew slammed into the country’s southwest peninsula, the first...
View ArticleBrock Yates, wrote hit film ‘The Cannonball Run,’ dies at 82
NEW YORK: Brock Yates, a longtime auto racing journalist who helped launch the popular and off-beat Cannonball Run races in the early 1970s and wrote the hit movie of the same name, has died.Yates died...
View ArticleHigh school scores, summaries and schedules — Oct. 6
FOOTBALLScoreboardThursday’s ResultWadsworth 38, Twinsburg 36Scoring SummaryWADSWORTH 38, TWINSBURG 36Wadsworth 6 15 8 9 — 38Twinsburg 14 14 0 8 — 36Twi.: McClain 1 run (McCarthy kick)Wad.: Palidar 60...
View ArticleIndians notebook: Larry Doby Youth Fund announced; Kyle Crockett tweaks back;...
CLEVELAND: As playoff baseball gets underway following one of the best seasons for the Indians in the past decade, the club has announced the creation of the Larry Doby Youth Fund, which aims to...
View ArticleDeadly Hurricane Matthew closes in on Florida
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: Leaving more than 280 dead in its wake across the Caribbean, Hurricane Matthew steamed toward Florida with potentially catastrophic winds of 130 mph Thursday, and 2 million people...
View ArticleAkron man goes on trial in rape linked to DNA evidence; Efrem Johnson already...
Though 16 years have passed since she was raped and beaten in a wooded area of Akron, the 54-year-old woman was able to point out the man she says attacked her because of one feature she hasn’t...
View ArticleIn Manchester, the party for coach Jim France gets a timeout
From the beginning of the 2016 school year, the community of New Franklin has been abuzz with the possibility that Manchester High School football coach Jim France would do it this year: Break the...
View ArticleCavaliers guard Iman Shumpert loses weight, hopes to add production
INDEPENDENCE: From the wrist surgery that cost him two months to some of his worst career numbers across the board, not much went right last season for Iman Shumpert — other than signing that $40...
View ArticleIndians 5, Red Sox 4: Three home runs, bullpen take down Red Sox; Indians...
CLEVELAND: The Indians flexed some muscle against a Cy Young contender, and Trevor Bauer and the bullpen stalled baseball’s best offense to top the Boston Red Sox 5-4 Thursday and take a 1-0 American...
View ArticleIndians 5, Red Sox 4: Ryan Lewis’ 29 Walk-Off Thoughts on Trevor Bauer, 3...
Here are 29 Walk-Off Thoughts on the Indians’ 5-4 win against the Boston Red Sox Thursday night that gave them a 1-0 lead in the American League Division Series. 1. Few things in sports are better...
View ArticleIndians notebook: Players get taste of playoff atmosphere, expand on 2013...
CLEVELAND: For many of the Indians players on the field Thursday and Friday, it was their first taste of playoff baseball and the added electricity that comes with it. For others, it was their second...
View ArticleTrump apologizes yet he’s still defiant after crude remarks
NEW YORK: After being caught on tape making shockingly crude comments about a married woman he tried to seduce, Donald Trump declared in a midnight video, “I was wrong and I apologize.” Yet he claimed...
View ArticleU.S. accuses Russia of political hacking, war crimes in Syria
WASHINGTON: The United States bluntly accused Russia on Friday of hacking American political sites and email accounts in an effort to interfere with the upcoming presidential election. The U.S. also...
View ArticleTolls rises as Haiti digs out from Hurricane Matthew
JEREMIE, Haiti: People across southwest Haiti were digging through the wreckage of their homes Friday, salvaging what they could of their meager possessions after devastating Hurricane Matthew killed...
View ArticleNational news briefs — compiled Oct. 7
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.Teacher in assault caseA Virginia Beach math teacher was accused of assault for writing on the forehead of an eighth-grader in his class. A criminal complaint says Daniel Board, 46,...
View ArticleRussia faces Security Council showdown Saturday over Syria
MOSCOW: International diplomatic pressure increased on Moscow on Friday to end the joint Russian-Syrian siege of the city of Aleppo, but Moscow’s U.N. ambassador says he will most likely veto a U.N....
View ArticleWorld news briefs — compiled Oct. 7
ENGLANDBlair may return to politicsFormer Prime Minister Tony Blair, 63, is dropping hints about a possible return to politics. The former Labour Party leader told Esquire magazine in a lengthy...
View ArticleNobel Prize boosts Colombian leader’s pursuit of peace
BOGOTA, Colombia: By winning the Nobel Peace Prize, President Juan Manuel Santos got a big boost Friday in his efforts to save an agreement seeking to end Colombia’s half-century conflict.The prize,...
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