CHICAGO (AP) — Three former U.S. presidents, Grammy-winning artists, clergy and elected officials are expected to attend a Chicago celebration of life on Friday for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.
Crowds of attendees waited in long lines outside the church on the city’s South Side as television screens played excerpts of some of Jackson’s most famous speeches. Inside,...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) – Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore pleaded no contest Friday to two misdemeanors in a criminal case that arose immediately after he was fired for having an inappropriate relationship with his executive assistant.
The deal was struck on the same day that a judge planned to hear a challenge to Moore’s arrest in December on three charge...
Neighbors who live near the Wacker Plant in Charleston Tennessee are being told to shelter in place.
An alert that went out this afternoon said “Due to a devloping situation at the Wacker facility in Charleston it is recommended that people remain indoors until further notice.”
Exactly what’s going on at Wacker remains a bit of a mystery for now.
We will ...
ICHIKAWA, Japan (AP) — Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early rejection from his mother and other monkeys.
Images of Punch dragging around the toy bigger than him drew attention to the residents of a zoo near Tokyo. When other monkeys shooed the baby away, Punch rushed back to the toy orangutan, hugging it fo...
Mortgage rates are edging up on Thursday amid renewed inflation fears tied to the war in Iran.
The average national rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 6%, up modestly from 5.98% last week, the lowest since September 2022, according to new data from Freddie Mac. Home loan costs remain far lower than a year ago, when they topped 6.6%.
Still, experts s...