NEW YORK (AP) — Abercrombie & Fitch is still having trouble getting teens to buy its clothing. Sales fell by more than expected in September and October as fewer people headed to the mall and shoppers shunned clothing with the retailer’s logo on it. Abercrombie & Fitch also reported weaker sales at its European stores,…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Buzz Lightyear and Sheriff Woody are coming back to the big screen. Disney Pixar announced Thursday it plans to produce “Toy Story 4,” with a release date in June 2017. Pixar chief John Lasseter will direct the film. Lasseter directed the first two “Toy Story” films and says his team has…
EDDIE PELLS AP Sports Writers The piece of paper taped to Tennessee Titans center Brian Schwenke’s locker carried a message that 40 of the more than 1,600 players in the NFL also were supposed to get that week: “You have randomly been selected by the NFL drug-testing program’s Medical Advisor to complete a urine doping…
TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Nico Rosberg finished ahead of his Mercedes teammate and title rival Lewis Hamilton in practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix on Friday. Rosberg was fastest in both sessions, finishing with the best time of the day with a lap of 1 minute, 12.123 seconds at Interlagos….
MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare outreach to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Barack Obama has written a letter about the fight against Islamic State militants, a common enemy in Syria and Iraq, according to diplomatic sources. The U.S. and Iran are each engaged in military efforts to degrade…
ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ray Rice and wife Janay testified Thursday on the final day of a hearing in the former Baltimore Ravens running back’s appeal of his indefinite NFL suspension. The arbitration hearing before a former federal judge will determine whether the NFL overstepped its authority in modifying…
DUDLEY, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman is accused of yanking the false teeth out of another woman’s mouth and throwing a beer bottle at her. Caterina Froio-Chaput, of Oxford, was released on $100 bail after pleading not guilty Thursday to assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Police say Froio-Chaput…
MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators who have been in the Mojave Desert trying to find out why an experimental spaceship crashed are wrapping up their work in Southern California. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson says that on Friday, investigators are leaving the area about 120 miles north of Los Angeles where Virgin…
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s Western allies on Friday expressed deep concern over political polarization in the North African country, a day after the country’s supreme court declared the new parliament and government illegal. The United States, Canada and six European countries, including Britain and France, issued a joint statement urging Libya’s rival parties to…
The Associated Press Timeline in the abduction of a woman from a Philadelphia street, and her rescue three days later in Maryland, based on FBI affidavit: __ NOV. 2, 9:40 p.m.: Nursing assistant Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, 22, is grabbed while walking along a Philadelphia street, and struggles to break free before being forced into what appears…
