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Got back! Paul McCartney's stolen bass is found and returned to the Beatle after more than 50 years
02/16/2024 01:46pm • LONDON (AP) — Paul McCartney no longer gently weeps for his original bass guitar. A five-year search by the manufacturer of the instrument that was aided by a husband-and-wife team of journalists helped reunite The Beatles star with the distinctive violin-shaped 1961 electric Höfner that went mis
Philadelphia traffic stop ends in gunfire; driver fatally wounded, officer injured
02/16/2024 01:31pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A traffic stop in a Philadelphia neighborhood ended in gunfire when authorities say the driver backed into the officer's cruiser and then pinned him against a wall, spurring the officer to fire several shots into the vehicle. The driver sped off but was soon found wounded in t
Ford awaiting Red Bull investigation into Horner but stresses high moral values company holds
02/16/2024 12:50pm • DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Red Bull future engine supplier Ford Motor Co. said Friday it is awaiting the results of an investigation into alleged inappropriate behavior by team principal Christian Horner, but a top executive stressed that Ford holds its company and partners to very high moral stan
Team owner, Hall of Fame driver Tony Stewart vows changes, puts team on blast after winless 2023
02/16/2024 12:31pm • DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Tony Stewart put his NASCAR team on blast ahead of the Daytona 500 and in the wake of a winless 2023 season: get to victory lane, hang banners — or else. Stewart-Haas Racing is in more than a small slump. SHR has been downright dismal. The team once among NASCAR's best
Brian Wilson needs to be put in conservatorship after death of wife, court petition says
02/16/2024 11:37am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The management team of Brian Wilson has petitioned to place him in a conservatorship because of his mental decline and the recent death of his wife, Melinda Ledbetter Wilson, who managed his daily life. The 81-year-old Beach Boys co-founder and mastermind has a “major neurocog
A man is charged in a car accident that killed 2 Chicago women in St. Louis for a Drake concert
02/16/2024 11:22am • ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis prosecutors have charged a 22-year-old man in the deaths of a mother and daughter from Chicago who were fatally struck by a Jeep after leaving a Drake concert. Monte Henderson of suburban St. Louis was charged Thursday with two counts of first-degree involuntary manslaug
NASCAR driver Chris Buescher skips Daytona 500 practice to be home for the birth of his second child
02/16/2024 11:18am • DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — NASCAR driver Chris Buescher has left the Daytona 500 to return home for the birth of his second child. Buescher traveled back to North Carolina to join his wife Emma and daughter Charley. He is expected to return Sunday morning ahead of the Daytona 500. Fellow Roush Fen
How will Prabowo Subianto, an ex-general who's never held elective office, lead Indonesia?
02/16/2024 10:00am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Foreign leaders congratulated Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto on his apparent victory in Indonesia's presidential election, while rights activists called him a threat. But how he'll govern remains uncertain after a campaign in which he made few concrete promises besides
Seven-time NASCAR champ Jimmie Johnson welcomes Creed to Daytona 500 with arms wide open
02/16/2024 09:31am • DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson and his Legacy Motor Club race team welcomed Creed to NASCAR with arms wide open. So singer Scott Stapp and the rest of the multi-platinum rock band filled them — they handed Johnson an autographed guitar. Johnson, a two-time Daytona 500 winner, joked he
Brazil's health agents scour junkyards and roofs for mosquitos to fight dengue epidemic
02/16/2024 03:42am • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The small team of state public health workers slalomed between auto parts strewn across a Rio de Janeiro junkyard, looking for standing water where mosquitoes might have laid their eggs. They were part of nationwide efforts to curtail a surge in Brazil of the mosquito-borne i
Dispute may have led to the mass shooting after the Chiefs' Super Bowl parade, police say
02/15/2024 11:14pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The mass shooting that unfolded amid throngs of people at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration, killing one person and wounding almost two dozen others, appeared to stem from a dispute between several people, authorities said Thursday. Police Chief Stacey Graves
Bystander tells of tackling armed, fleeing person after shooting at Chiefs' Super Bowl parade
02/15/2024 10:37pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory rally had just ended when fan Trey Filter heard what he initially thought was fireworks. Then someone screamed, “Get him!” And that is how the 40-year-old wound up in widely circulated video of him tackling an armed person aft
Jimmie Johnson uses desperate late push to qualify for his 21st Daytona 500
02/15/2024 10:06pm • DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The panic set in for Jimmie Johnson on the final lap of his qualifying race for the Daytona 500. The seven-time NASCAR champion and newest Hall of Fame inductee recognized he was dangerously close to missing the cut for “The Great American Race.” Johnson, now co-own
Maine police defend search for gunman who killed 18 last fall, saying they feared an ambush
02/15/2024 09:45pm • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine state police on Thursday defended their search last fall for a gunman who had just killed 18 people, saying they didn’t rush to search woods surrounding his abandoned car because they feared a late-night ambush. The Oct. 25 shooting at a bowling alley and a bar was th
A fin whale decomposing on an Oregon beach creates a sad but 'super educational' spectacle
02/15/2024 08:54pm • It's not yet known what killed an endangered fin whale, but people can marvel at the large marine mammal as it decomposes on an Oregon beach. “While it's sad, it's also super educational," Tiffany Boothe, assistant manager of the Seaside Aquarium, said Thursday of the rare sight, which she said is
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