NEW YORK (AP) — The world premiere of Thomas Ades’ “The Exterminating Angel” at the Salzburg Festival in Austria has been postponed a year until the summer of 2016. The festival announced the commission of the opera in 2011 but didn’t include it in its 2015 schedule, which was announced Thursday. “The Exterminating Angel,” based…
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Government Ethics Commission has opened a preliminary investigation into consulting work performed by the fiancee of newly re-elected Gov. John Kitzhaber (KIHTS’-hah-bur). The commission held its first meeting Friday since it received three complaints about Cylvia Hayes’ work as a private consultant. The preliminary investigation will determine whether the…
ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Their bowl hopes hanging by a thread and their seasons slipping away, Michigan and Northwestern have little room left for error. That margin is just about gone. The Wolverines and the Wildcats simply can’t afford a letdown when they meet Saturday if they want to make…
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — New York Jets cornerback Darrin Walls has been ruled out for the team’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers because of a calf injury. Walls didn’t practice all week and will miss his second straight game. He had started seven of the Jets’ previous eight games before the injury. Rex Ryan…
The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A timeline of Detroit’s financial troubles: ___ 2005-2006 — Detroit issues $1.44 billion of new debt in the form of pension obligation certificates to fund the city’s two retirement systems. A 30-year repayment schedule is negotiated. Then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick agrees to swap a fixed interest rate for a variable…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping a 14-year-old girl in 1990 has been charged in connection with her shooting death, which occurred three months after the abduction while she was waiting to testify against him. Charles Stroud, 57, faces charges of solicitation to commit murder in the deaths…
NANCY BENAC Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — They will be the top three players in political Washington for the next two years: President Barack Obama, incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner. Within 24 hours of one another, the Democratic president and the two Republicans who will lead Congress stepped…
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona woman injured when she fell off a trail in the Grand Canyon was rescued after being stranded for about eight hours on a slope above an 80-foot cliff. The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office says the hiker fell Sunday, landing within several feet of the cliff’s edge….
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A chimpanzee at a New Mexico zoo has given birth to twins. Keepers arriving at ABQ BioPark in Albuquerque on Tuesday found 38-year-old Elaine with two healthy babies. The zoo didn’t specify the twins’ gender. Staff at the zoo knew Elaine was pregnant and suspected she was carrying more than one…
LONDON (AP) — Producers are betting there’s appetite for a stage version of “The Hunger Games.” Movie studio Lionsgate says it is teaming up with entertainment companies in the U.S. and the Netherlands to create a live version of the book and film series about a dystopian world in which teenagers are forced to fight…
