Is this art, or an ad? Bakery owner Sean Young was thrilled when high school art students covered the big blank wall over his doorway last spring with a painting. Then the town zoning board got involved.
Holocaust survivors and their descendants join forces … Today, approximately 240,000 survivors are still alive.
NY woman driven to wrong address fatally shot by … HEBRON, N.Y. (AP) — A woman looking for a friend’s house in upstate New York was shot to death after the car she was riding in mistakenly went to the wrong address and was met with gunfire in the driveway, authorities said Monday. Kaylin Gillis, 20, was traveling through the rural town of Hebron with […]
Holocaust survivors, descendants join forces on social … BERLIN (AP) — Assia Gorban was 7 years old when the Germans occupied her hometown of Mogilev-Podolsky in Ukraine. The Jewish girl and her family were first imprisoned in a ghetto on the outskirts of town and later forced onto a cattle car that took them to the Pechora concentration camp in 1941. After a […]
Man accused of fatally shooting New York woman who … A woman was fatally shot Saturday night after a homeowner allegedly opened fire on her and her friends, who mistakenly drove to the wrong address in upstate New York, authorities said.
Opposition figure’s sentence underlines Russian intolerance The 25-year treason sentence imposed on prominent Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza on Monday was a particularly severe show of Russian authorities’ intensifying intolerance for criticism of the war in Ukraine and other dissenting opinions. Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia for years has been closing in on those who challenge the Kremlin, arresting countless protesters, […]
Families displaced from California neighborhood seek … PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — As a child, Lawrance W. McFarland lived on a small piece of land on a Native American reservation in Palm Springs he described as a “little world of its own,” surrounded by the parts of the city that were tourist magnets and depicted in movies. The retiree, who now lives […]
Victims identified in Alabama birthday party shooting … Alabama officials continued investigating a weekend shooting that killed four and injured 28 at a teenager’s birthday party.
Ex-politician known for feces protest killed in South … CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A former politician who gained notoriety in South Africa for dumping human feces in public places as a protest against the living conditions in some of the country’s poorest townships was fatally shot Monday while meeting with a group of homeless people, police said. Loyiso Nkohla was killed by […]
Athletics sinking to new depths amid terrible start Baseball’s new pitch timer finally met its match this week in the form of Oakland’s pitching staff. The Athletics walked 17 batters in a 17-6 loss to the New York Mets on Friday night. Time of game: 3 hours, 29 minutes — and it may have felt twice that long to anyone who stayed until […]