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NASA, PBS marking 40 years since Voyager spacecraft launches

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Forty years after blasting off, Earth’s most distant ambassadors — the twin Voyager spacecraft — are carrying sounds and music ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Friday, August 18, 2017 11:16 am

Total Solar Eclipse path 2017: Map, live stream online

The event of a lifetime, the Total Solar Eclipse 2017 arrives in the United States on Monday, August 21, 2017. Not everybody will get a ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Friday, August 18, 2017 9:31 am

What is Charlottesville, Virginia like?

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The white nationalists behind last weekend’s violent rally found an appealing target in the historic town where Thomas Jefferson founded a ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Thursday, August 17, 2017 3:52 pm

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North Carolina’s academic case finally reaches NCAA infractions hearing

By Aaron Beard Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — It has taken more than two years for North Carolina to appear before an NCAA infractions ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Wednesday, August 16, 2017 10:30 am

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Lawsuit claims rodent was baked into Chick-fil-A sandwich

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A lawsuit claims a suburban Philadelphia woman got an extra topping in her Chick-fil-A sandwich: a dead rodent. Ellen Manfalouti sued in ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Tuesday, August 15, 2017 10:54 am

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Judge won’t reinstate girls after boys’ basketball dispute

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A judge in New Jersey has refused to overturn a Roman Catholic school’s decision to deny re-enrollment to two sisters after ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Tuesday, August 15, 2017 10:54 am

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Deadly rally accelerates removal of Confederate statues

In Gainesville, Florida, workers hired by the Daughters of the Confederacy chipped away at a Confederate soldier’s statue, loaded it quietly on a truck and ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Tuesday, August 15, 2017 10:53 am

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Both North and South Korean leaders, US signal turn to diplomacy amid crisis

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s military on Tuesday presented leader Kim Jong Un with plans to launch missiles into waters near Guam and ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Tuesday, August 15, 2017 9:48 am

Why did Merck CEO quit Trump’s council?

NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of the nation’s third largest pharmaceutical company resigned from a manufacturing council that advises President Donald Trump days after ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Monday, August 14, 2017 9:34 am

Total solar Eclipse 2017 path: Date, where to see United States August 21 map

Staff and AP Report Everybody is talking about the Total Solar Eclipse 2017. But when is the total solar eclipse 2017? When does the eclipse ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Sunday, August 13, 2017 10:18 am

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Glen Campbell, ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ singer, dies at age 81

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Glen Campbell, the affable superstar singer of “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Wichita Lineman” whose appeal spanned country, pop, television and movies, died ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Wednesday, August 9, 2017 10:29 am

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Sam Kendricks wins World Championship in pole vault at IAAF Worlds

Sam Kendricks of Oxford (MS) has won the world championship in the pole vault today at the IAAF Worlds in London. Kendricks, representing the United States, ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Tuesday, August 8, 2017 4:13 pm

How did singer Glen Campbell die? Alzheimer’s diagnosed in 2011

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Glen Campbell, the grinning, high-pitched entertainer who had such hits as “Rhinestone Cowboy” and spanned country, pop, television and movies, has ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Tuesday, August 8, 2017 3:56 pm

SEC football preview: Can Alabama win National Championship this year?

Alabama and the Southeastern Conference are trying to climb back atop the college football mountain. The SEC was toppled— at least temporarily — from that ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Monday, August 7, 2017 1:28 pm

How good will Tennessee football be this year 2017?

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — How good will Tennessee football be this year? Tennessee defensive end Jonathan Kongbo says he’s ready to live up to the hype that ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Saturday, August 5, 2017 11:35 am

What day, time is the Total Solar Eclipse 2017 (August 21)

By The Associated Press It will be tough eclipsing this eclipse — the Total Solar Eclipse 2017. The sun, moon and Earth will line up ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Saturday, August 5, 2017 11:24 am

Mississippi officers to carry naloxone, opiate overdose antidote

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi State Troopers and other state law enforcement will begin carrying an overdose antidote. Gov. Phil Bryant and other officials announced ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Thursday, August 3, 2017 1:15 pm

UAW Nissan vote in Mississippi: Labor board says Nissan broke the law

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — With a union election scheduled this week, the National Labor Relations Board is again charging that Nissan Motor Co. violated workers’ ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Monday, July 31, 2017 5:06 pm

Arkansas football practice underway; Hogs first SEC school to open season

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Bret Bielema has had a busier offseason this year than most compared to his first four at Arkansas, with little of ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Saturday, July 29, 2017 7:52 am

Tennessee Vols study Canadian Football League for opening stretch

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Butch Jones and the Tennessee Volunteers are looking North of the border to help them prepare for a rough stretch of ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Saturday, July 29, 2017 7:51 am

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AG Sessions not leaving unless pushed out by President Donald Trump

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — His loyalty to the boss severely tested but seemingly intact, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday he will stay ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Friday, July 28, 2017 9:07 am

What’s a jubilee? Low oxygen washes fish, shrimp, crabs, eels ashore

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Large numbers of fish, shrimp, crabs and eels have been coming ashore in Mississippi, in what’s called a jubilee. The Mississippi ... Read more

by AP/Wire, Friday, July 28, 2017 7:05 am

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