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What is super fog? The mix of smoke and dense fog caused a deadly pileup in Louisiana 10/24/2023 04:32pm • The National Weather Service called it “super fog” — a combination of thick smoke from fires in marshy wetlands of south Louisiana and the fog that often hangs thick in the air on cool, windless mornings. It was a deadly combination this week. Smoke spreading through the region from a marsh fi 'Are you Max's mom?' 14-year-old dog stolen at gunpoint in DC reunited with owner 10/24/2023 04:22pm • A 14-year-old dog, Max, is enjoying ice cream treats and naps at home Tuesday after being stolen at gunpoint in Northeast, D.C., last weekend. Max is recuperating at home after being stolen at gunpoint last weekend in D.C. (Courtesy Zaleena Ahmed) Zaleena Ahmed, 38, of Northeast D.C. told WTO DP World Tour Schedule 10/24/2023 03:00pm • Nov. 24-27 _ Fortinet Australian PGA Championship (Cameron Smith) Nov. 24-27 _ Joburg Open (Dan Bradbury) Dec. 1-4 _ ISPS Handa Australian Open (Adrian Meronk) Dec. 1-4 _ Investec South African Open Championship (Thriston Lawrence) Dec. 8-11 _ Alfred Dunhill Championship (Ockie Strydom) Dec. 15-18 _ Pan American Games start in disarray with cleaners still working around the National Stadium 10/24/2023 02:19pm • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Workers and volunteers at the Pan American Games were still removing bricks, pieces of wood and construction machinery from outside competition venues on Tuesday, the fourth day of the largest multi-sport event in the region. Construction material is scattered around many of Massachusetts police searching woods for an armed man in connection with his wife's shooting death 10/24/2023 02:04pm • GARDNER, Mass. (AP) — Police in Massachusetts were searching a large area of woods on Tuesday for a man in connection with the shooting death of his wife, who was found in their home on Sunday. Police were focused on 400 acres (160 hectares) after a hunter found a car in the area belonging to Aar Woman killed in Montgomery Co. crash that closed Columbia Pike for hours 10/24/2023 02:00pm • Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, say one of the three people involved in a car crash Monday afternoon on the Columbia Pike has died. Bridget Corcoran-Martin, 70, of New York, was a passenger in one of the vehicles in a crash that happened at the intersection of southbound Columbia Pike and Why travel can make you exhausted just by sitting still 10/24/2023 01:30pm • (CNN) — Travel sickness isn’t just hearsay. Nearly a third of people experience motion sickness – and to this day we don’t exactly know what causes it. The prevailing theory suggests it is triggered by a poor perception of movement. Departure to and return from summer vacations seem mo AUTO RACING: Bell tolls in Florida to earn title shot; Truex, Hamlin need to rally at Martinsville 10/24/2023 12:39pm • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES Xfinity 500 Site: Martinsville, Virginia. Schedule: Saturday, practice, 12:35 p.m., and qualifying, 1:20 p.m.; Sunday, race, 2 p.m. (NBC). Track: Martinsville Speedway. Race distance: 500 laps, 263 miles. Last year: Christopher Bell won after starting 20th. Last r NCAA FBS Team Rushing Offense 10/24/2023 11:12am • Rushing Offense G Car RuYD TD Yds Pg NCAA FBS Individual Leading Rushers 10/24/2023 11:11am • Leading Rushers G Car RuYD Tds Yds Pg NCAA FBS Team Rushing Defense 10/24/2023 11:10am • Rushing Defense G Car Yds TD Yds Pg Music Review: Celebrate the spooky season with a Duran Duran album, 'Danse Macabre' 10/24/2023 10:04am • There aren't that many Halloween albums out there and so tip your masks to Duran Duran for giving us a treat this spooky season. “Danse Macabre” is a 13-track — even the number is unsettling — mix of playfully dark original tunes and some seasonably appropriate covers, like Talking Heads’ Pakistani court extends protection from arrest in graft cases to former premier Nawaz Sharif 10/24/2023 09:34am • ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has extended protection from arrest to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in graft cases while another withdrew its arrest warrant against him on Tuesday following his return home after four years of self-imposed exile in London. Sharif appeared at the Islamabad Man fires gun near pro-Palestinian rally outside Chicago, another pepper-sprays crowd, police say 10/24/2023 07:29am • Two people were arrested after police say one man fired a shot into the air and another pepper-sprayed pro-Palestinian demonstrators near an Israel solidarity event in Chicago’s northern suburbs. The episode took place Sunday evening around a banquet hall in Skokie, where about 1,000 people had ga Gaza has oil markets on edge. That could build more urgency to shift to renewables, IEA head says 10/24/2023 07:00am • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Tensions from the war in Gaza could help accelerate the move away from planet-warming fossil fuels like oil and gas and toward renewable energy, electric cars and heat pumps — similar to how sharp increases in the price of oil during the 1970s unleashed efforts to conse