JAY REEVES Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — World War II veterans are aging, and so are the airplanes they flew. Keeping the old warbirds in the air is an unusual challenge for crews who maintain planes such as the B-17 bomber Aluminum Overcast, which is touring the Southeast. Only a handful of World War…
SELLO MOTSETA Associated Press GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Hundreds of opposition supporters broke into ululations on Friday when a court in Botswana dismissed the president’s effort to change the process of selecting the vice president. Opposition parties welcomed the court’s decision to keep the vote for vice president by secret ballot, rather than by a…
JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Santander Bank has agreed to give $1.3 million in grants to support low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in Providence to resolve a lawsuit filed by the city. The city sued in federal court in May, alleging the institution engaged in discriminatory practices by deliberately limiting its lending in…
JOE KAY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — Defensive tackle Devon Still’s 4-year-old daughter got one of the biggest cheers on a cold, windy night Thursday at Paul Brown Stadium. Leah Still was on the field after the first quarter when the Cincinnati Bengals presented Children’s Hospital with a check for more than $1 million…
PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Ryan Boatright doesn’t see basketball as a game. Since he was a 13-year-old prodigy and gave a verbal commitment to USC, the undersized guard with the impressive leaping ability has understood that the sport was going to give him an opportunity that no other man in his…
(Updated at 2:45 p.m.) Although a final decision has not been made on where more elementary school seats will go in South Arlington, the options have now been narrowed to two. First, a plan to build a new elementary school next to Thomas Jefferson Middle School, at 125 S. Old Glebe Road, a project which has come…
DOVER, Del. (AP) — The winning numbers in Friday afternoon’s drawing of the Delaware Lottery’s “Play 3 Day” game were: 9-4-0 (nine, four, zero) Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
PORT CHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A 40-year-old man is facing multiple charges after New York state police say he tried to eat his DWI test results. Troopers say Kenneth Desormes, of Greenwich, Connecticut, was stopped for speeding on Interstate 95 at 5:30 a.m. Sunday. After speaking with him, the troopers determined he was intoxicated and…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Zoo has received a real treat for Halloween — the birth of its first hippopotamus in 26 years. It was a bit of trick, too, because the mother was on birth control. The zoo says the baby was born Friday. It was somewhat of a surprise, but staffers…
Buffered cycle tracks could help Montgomery County transportation officials make the best of a dicey situation when it comes to a Capital Crescent Trail crossing of busy Wisconsin Avenue. In a meeting with stakeholders in September, the county’s Department of Transportation presented a number of still preliminary options for the Capital Crescent Surface Trail. The…
