WILLIAMSPORT — On the weekend of Oct. 10-12, the Liberty Classic Community Band Festival will continue its tradition of gathering musicians from all across America to play a free concert in Williamsport. Initiated in 2010, the festival is sponsored by Williamsport’s world-famous Repasz ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A new report on book bans in U.S. schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored and the country divided between states actively restricting works and those attempting to limit or eliminate bans. PEN America’s “Banned in the USA,” released ...
Snoop Dogg is headed back to the Olympics. NBCUniversal announced Sunday night that the global megastar — who was a roving correspondent for its coverage of the Paris Games in 2024 — will be part of the coverage for the Milan-Cortina Games coming in February. “Guess who’s back?” Snoop — dressed in full Team USA red, white and blue regalia, as snow swirled around him and the Olympic anthem played — asked in a 15-second video that was released Sunday night by NBC. Much in the same way that he did in Paris, Snoop will speak with NBC host Mike Tirico at times to give his ...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Van Gogh museum is bringing a scattered family back together this fall to honor a postal worker, his wife and their children who sat as models for the Dutch master at a time when he was struggling to make friends in a French town. Portraits of the expansively ...
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Investigators in Colorado are reviewing the 2005 shooting death of journalist Hunter S. Thompson, which was ruled a suicide, authorities said. There’s no new evidence suggesting foul play in Thompson’s death, but the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office requested the review at the behest of Thompson’s widow, Anita Thompson, the sheriff’s office and Colorado Bureau of Investigation said in a news release Tuesday. Investigators are committed to answering any “lingering questions” surrounding his death, Sheriff Michael Buglione said. “We understand the ...
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A 10-foot statue of rock n’ roll queen Tina Turner was unveiled Saturday in the rural Tennessee community where she grew up — before becoming a Grammy-winning singer, an electrifying stage performer and one of the world’s most recognizable and popular ...
