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How to Finance a Boat 04/16/2024 08:00pm • If open waters call and you're considering a boat purchase, there are a few steps between your desires and setting sail. Figuring out what kind of boat you want is one decision. Figuring out how to pay for your dream boat is another. Personal loans -- which you can use to buy almost anything -- are Maui Fire Department report on deadly wildfire details need for more equipment and mutual aid plans 04/16/2024 07:33pm • HONOLULU (AP) — When wildfires broke out across Maui last August, some firefighters carried victims piggyback over downed power lines to safety and sheltered survivors inside their engines. Another drove a moped into a burning neighborhood again and again, whisking people away from danger one at a Chicago woman pleads guilty, gets 50 years for cutting child from victim's womb 04/16/2024 07:32pm • CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman accused of luring a pregnant teenager to her home and cutting her baby from her womb with a butcher knife nearly five years ago pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday and was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Clarisa Figueroa, 51, seated in a wheelchair and wearing a bright Black immigrant rally in NYC raises awareness about racial, religious and language inequities 04/16/2024 07:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Black immigrants turned out in the hundreds on Tuesday across from New York City Hall during a hearing about racial inequities in the city's shelter and immigrant support systems. Over 1,500 immigrants, mostly from Guinea, assembled in City Hall Park, after it became clear that onl How Kansas women's disappearance on a drive to pick up kids led to 4 arrests in Oklahoma 04/16/2024 06:57pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A two-week search for two missing Kansas women came to a fatal end last weekend when Oklahoma authorities confirmed the two were dead and announced the arrests of four people who allegedly belonged to an anti-government group that called themselves “God's Misfits.” Veronic AUTO RACING: Hendrick continues to dominate as Elliott ends winless drought; open-wheelers return 04/16/2024 06:12pm • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES GEICO 500 Site: Talladega, Alabama. Schedule: Saturday, 10:30 a.m. qualifying, Sunday, race, 3 p.m. (FOX). Track: Talladega Superspeedway. Race distance: 188 laps, 500.08 miles. Last year: Kyle Busch won after starting 17th. Last race: Chase Elliott pulled ahead a ABBA, Blondie, and the Notorious B.I.G. enter the National Recording Registry 04/16/2024 06:03pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — ABBA, Biggie, Blondie and Rudolph are entering America's audio canon. New inductees into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress include ABBA 's 1976 album “Arrival,” The Notorious B.I.G. 's 1994 album “Ready to Die," Blondie 's 1978 breakthrough “Par Ohio man fatally shot Uber driver after scam phone calls targeted both of them, authorities say 04/16/2024 05:35pm • SOUTH CHARLESTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who authorities say fatally shot an Uber driver who he thought was trying to rob him after scam phone calls deceived them both has been indicted on a murder charge. William Brock, 81, also faces counts of kidnapping and felonious assault in the indictment Analysis: Kyle Larson settling in quickly as preparation continues for Indianapolis 500 debut 04/16/2024 04:34pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kyle Larson said all the right things after completing 43 laps around Indianapolis Motor Speedway as part of his preparation for his debut next month in “The Greatest Spectacle of Racing.” He was glad he completed the rookie orientation last October and didn't have to de 'Bright and accomplished' Howard University student dies after being hit by car on campus 04/16/2024 03:28pm • A Howard University student has died after he was struck last week by a car reportedly driven by a faculty member. Mohamed Samura, 18, died Monday after being struck on Thursday, while he was walking on the D.C. campus, police said. The driver, who has not been identified, was traveling northb DP World Tour Schedule 04/16/2024 03:01pm • Nov. 23-26 _ Joburg Open (Dean Burmester) Nov. 23-26 _ Fortinet Australian PGA Championship (Min Woo Lee) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ Investec South African Open Championship (Dean Burmester) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ ISPS Handa Australian Open (Joaquin Niemann) Dec. 7-10 _ Alfred Dunhill Championship (Louis Oosthuizen PGA Tour gets post-Masters signature event at Hilton Head. LPGA stages first major in Houston 04/16/2024 02:35pm • PGA TOUR RBC HERITAGE Site: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Course: Harbour Town GL. Yardage: 7,213. Par: 71. Prize money: $20 million. Winner's share: $3.6 million. Television: Thursday-Friday, 2-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (CBS). Defending champion PHOTOS: What's inside a 2,000-acre Virginia estate that sold for $18.8M 04/16/2024 01:35pm • A 2,000-acre estate in Virginia Hunt Country has sold for $18.750 million, the most expensive residential sale in Virginia, Maryland or D.C. since 2022. Prior to selling, the Hume, Virginia, property was most recently listed at $19.5 million. The estate is named The Cove. It was listed by Kathryn Ha Indiana sheriff's deputy dies after coming into contact with power lines at car crash scene 04/16/2024 11:49am • PLAINFIELD, Ind. (AP) — A suburban Indianapolis sheriff's deputy died after he came into contact with downed power lines at the scene of a car crash, police said Tuesday. Deputy Fred Fislar came into contact with power lines knocked down by the crash after he arrived at the scene just north of Pla The German chancellor presses China on Russia's invasion of Ukraine 04/16/2024 11:24am • BEIJING (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday to pressure Russia to end its “insane campaign” in Ukraine, the latest in a parade of European leaders and senior officials to make such an appeal. The Chinese side gave no sign of any change in its