Go See Do: Wednesday, June 20 Acro Alphabet Show: 11 a.m. today at the Lewisville Public Library, 6490 Shallowford Road, Lewisville. Learn about life as an acrobat, the need for healthy eating and the value of hard work. The show is appropriate for all ages. For… More
State shows updated eastern beltway plans Plans for two more segments of the Winston-Salem Northern Beltway had people scratching their heads Tuesday as they tried to figure out how they will get from Point A to Point B when the work is complete. More
Charlotte teen’s body dumped along rural NC highway. Police search for her killer. A man wanted for questioning in the death tampered with his court-ordered electric ankle monitor and hasn’t been found, investigators said. 11/16/2024 - 1:38 am | View Link
Charlotte 18-year-old identified as body found in Lincoln County; suspect on the loose LINCOLNTON, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A Charlotte teen was identified as a victim who was found dead in Lincoln County earlier this week. Now authorities are searching for the man they believe ... 11/15/2024 - 3:01 pm | View Link
Search for suspect underway after woman’s body found in Lincoln County Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said Friday the body of an 18-year-old woman was dumped along Highway 105 in Boger City and investigators are looking for Gregory Houser in connection with her death. 11/15/2024 - 2:59 pm | View Link
Sheriff: Body of 18-year-old woman found along highway in Lincoln County; searching for suspect The body of an 18-year-old girl was found along Highway 105 in Boger City on Sunday Nov. 10, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office is currently search for Gregory ... 11/15/2024 - 12:28 pm | View Link
Body found in vehicle in Person County believed to be missing Pittsboro woman: Sheriff The Person County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday afternoon that deputies found a vehicle with a body believed to be a missing woman from Chatham County. 11/14/2024 - 12:19 am | View Link
INDIANAPOLIS — Veteran Heat big man Kevin Love could see this coming, this dominant start by the Cleveland Cavaliers, because he was part of how it came together — the part that required patience, perspective and pain,
Rising from the ashes of a LeBron James departure can be one of the most daunting challenges in sports.
Recently, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election prognostications and sweaty-palmed predictions about who the Dodgers might sign for next season.
That book, “Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel,” lands in stores on Nov. 19, and it immediately pulled me in with its sobering, concise summation of the period: “That century brought world wars, revolutions, automobiles, women’s suffrage, death camps and the internet.”
With all that profound change, the jacket copy asked a question as pertinent now as for the previous century: “And for novelists, it posed an urgent question: How to write books as startling and unforeseen as the world we live in?”
Indeed.
In this work of nonfiction, which was 15 years in the making, author Edwin Frank, the editorial director of New York Review Books and founder of its NYRB Classics series, explores 20th-century novels through a personally chosen and idiosyncratic list of 32 titles (that makes allowances for Dostoevsky’s 1864 narrative “Notes From the Underground,” which presages the fiction of the coming century).
By Nina Heller, CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
WASHINGTON — Despite deep partisan divides on issues like abortion and contraceptive access, lawmakers from both parties appear to have forged a cautious consensus on another women’s issue: menopause.
The agreement became evident earlier this year, when a bipartisan group of female senators introduced legislation that would increase federal research on menopause and coordinate the federal government’s existing programs related to menopause and midlife women’s health for the first time.
At a press conference with actress Halle Berry in May, Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.; Patty Murray, D-Wash.; Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; Susan Collins, R-Maine; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.
MIAMI GARDENS — The South Florida Sun Sentinel’s Miami Dolphins writers are picking out a pair of prop bets each week in the 2024 season.
Dolphins columnist Chris Perkins and Dolphins reporter David Furones, neither of whom condone gambling, will make predictions on player or team props they believe will occur for every Dolphins matchup.
Each writer will offer their “Best Bet,” a near 50-50 proposition they believe will occur, and a “Longshot,” which has to be given betting odds of at least +300, or 3-to-1 probability.
Odds are according to the Hard Rock Bet app.
By Tim Henderson, Stateline.org (TNS)
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, McLean County, Illinois, was known mostly as the home of State Farm Insurance in Bloomington and Illinois State University in Normal.
Now, the area illustrates a trend that’s bringing more factories to small cities with lower costs of living: It has thousands of new jobs manufacturing Rivian electric vehicles and a new candy factory that will produce Kinder Bueno and other Ferrero candies.
“Food and electric cars.
By KELVIN CHAN, AP Business Writer
LONDON (AP) — If you’re tired of memorizing passwords, then give passkeys a try.
You might have noticed that many online services are now offering the option of using passkeys, a digital authentication method touted as an easier and more secure way to log in. The passkey push started gaining major momentum after Google started accepting them about 18 months ago.
Passkeys are seen as eventual replacements for passwords, but if you’re still not sure what they’re all about, read on:
What are passkeys?