As tributes continue around the world honoring the life and legacy of Dolly Parton, performers in Wynwood are paying tribute to the country music icon in their own way.
Month: August 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Voting rights, the work of the Civil Rights Movement and racial justice took center stage on the National Mall Friday, with protesters gathering ahead of midterm elections and following a wave of changes to voting laws and redistricting that some have condemned as detrimental to Black Americans.
Mukti Patel has huddled with family and friends at her parents’ Richmond, Virginia, home since her dad, sister and two other relatives went missing in the catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-China border.
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Jurors in the closely watched Lindsay Clancy trial began deliberating this week — but had not reached a verdict by the end of the day Friday.
A fiery crash involving a pickup truck and a flatbed semi-truck left a man dead and shut down a portion of U.S. 1 in southwest Miami-Dade on Saturday morning, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The Pelican Harbor Seabird Station, a wildlife rescue service based near North Bay Village, released a pelican on Friday after treatment for injuries in Miami-Dade County.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety, as Nepal and China raced to respond to catastrophic flash floods that killed nearly 600 people and left almost 2,500 missing.
NEW YORK (AP) — The bond market swung Friday as investors built bets that the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates soon to get the nation’s high inflation under control. U.S. stocks, meanwhile, dipped but not by much after economists said a speech by Chairman Kevin Warsh helped strengthen faith that the Fed will do what’s needed to bring inflation down, even if it causes pain for the economy in the short term.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government agreed in court on Friday to extend a pause on border related construction in Big Bend National Park until mid September, a move welcomed by those challenging the contentious project in the area.
A man listed in an arrest report as a teacher is facing a dozen felony charges after sheriff’s deputies said he was distributing child sexual abuse videos on the messaging platform Kik.