Search

How to spend the winter planning and preparing for your spring garden 01/02/2024 09:04am • Gardening isn’t usually the first thing that springs to mind when the calendar page turns to January. But with the holidays behind us, there’s no better time to start planning and preparing our 2024 gardens. Of course, that will mean different things in different places. It's impossible to accou A missing person with no memory: How investigators solved the cold case of Seven Doe 01/02/2024 07:18am • CHICAGO (AP) — Buried at the edge of a Chicago Catholic cemetery are an elderly person’s remains marked only by a cement cylinder deep in the ground labeled with the numbers 04985. The person died in 2015 at a nursing home not remembering much, including their own name. They went by Seven. Now A missing person with no memory: How investigators solved the cold case of Seven Doe 01/02/2024 07:17am • CHICAGO (AP) — Buried at the edge of a Chicago Catholic cemetery are an elderly person’s remains marked only by a cement cylinder deep in the ground labeled with the numbers 04985. The person died in 2015 at a nursing home not remembering much, including their own name. They went by Seven. Train derails and catches fire near San Francisco, causing minor injuries and service disruptions 01/01/2024 10:50pm • ORINDA, Calif. (AP) — Several people suffered minor injuries and service was disrupted when a commuter train derailed and caught fire on New Year's Day in the San Francisco Bay Area, officials said. The Bay Area Rapid Transit train had just left Orinda on its way to Lafayette around 9 a.m. Monday 2023's 10 Best-Performing Stocks 01/01/2024 07:00pm • The S&P 500 finished the year on a high note in December as positive economic data, falling inflation and the possibility of 2024 interest rate cuts boosted investor sentiment. After a strong December performance, the S&P 500 finished 2023 up more than 24% and within striking distance of all Access to busy NYC airport's international terminal restricted due to pro-Palestinian protest 01/01/2024 05:57pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Access to a busy terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was restricted Monday as pro-Palestinian protesters converged on the airport for the second time in a week. Videos posted online show heavy traffic and a slow-moving line of cars, some flying Palestinia A crash on a New York City parkway leaves 5 dead 01/01/2024 03:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Five people died when the car they were in crashed on a New York City parkway Monday morning, police said. The Mazda was heading north on the Cross Island Parkway in the borough of Queens when it collided with another vehicle just before 6 a.m. The five people in the car were prono DP World Tour Schedule 01/01/2024 03:01pm • Nov. 23-26 _ Joburg Open (Dean Burmester) Nov. 23-26 _ Fortinet Australian PGA Championship (Min Woo Lee) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ ISPS Handa Australian Open (Joaquin Niemann) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ Investec South African Open Championship (Dean Burmester) Dec. 7-10 _ Alfred Dunhill Championship (Louis Oosthuizen 2 men arrested in connection with Ugandan Olympic runner's killing in Kenya, police say 01/01/2024 12:25pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two men were arrested in connection with the killing of Ugandan Olympic runner Benjamin Kiplagat, who was found fatally stabbed in a car in Kenya on New Year's Eve, police said Monday. A knife suspected of being used in the killing of the 34-year-old Kiplagat was found on one German officials detain a fifth suspect in connection with a threat to attack Cologne Cathedral 01/01/2024 09:56am • BERLIN (AP) — German authorities said Monday they detained another suspect in connection with an alleged threat of an attack on the world-famous Cologne Cathedral over the holidays, bringing the overall number of people detained in connection with the alleged plot to five. The latest suspect, a 41 Car Review: The MINI Cooper SE Hardtop 2 Door is an EV that infuses fun into the daily commute 01/01/2024 09:20am • MINI still builds small cars that tend to be more fun to drive, like the Cooper SE Hardtop. (WTOP/Mike Parris) Small cars might be passé in the big crossover SUV craze we live in today. Luckily, MINI still builds small cars that tend to be more fun to drive, and now the MINI Cooper 2 Door Hardtop i Police say Berlin marks New Year's Eve with less violence than a year ago despite detention of 390 01/01/2024 08:01am • BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Berlin said Monday that New Year's Eve celebrations in the German capital were more peaceful compared to last year despite the temporary detention of 390 people and 54 police officers being injured. Police said many were detained for violating the Weapons and Explosive Electric vehicle sales are slowing. No need for panic yet, insiders say. 01/01/2024 07:10am • Jon Challicom/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The recent headlines for electric vehicles have been brutal: Sales are dropping. Momentum is slipping. Consumers are souring on the technology. Experts say, however, that 2024 may be the year to finally pull the plug on gasoline-powered cars and trucks. "Fiv Olympic host country France sees less New Year's Eve disorder as it celebrates 2024's arrival 01/01/2024 04:56am • PARIS (AP) — France saw fewer of the car burnings that usually blight the arrival of a new year as the Olympic host country celebrated the start of 2024, the interior minister said Monday. The 380 arrests made nationwide overnight was a 10% drop compared with a year ago, said Gerald Darmanin, citi DC-area officers finish New Year weekend with increased police presence 01/01/2024 03:20am • Maryland, Virginia and District police agencies have spent New Year's Eve — a night of drinks and celebration — responding to several incidents across the region. WTOP's Traffic Center and producer's desk reached out to several agencies about their plans to increase patrols over the holiday w