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8 Best Stocks to Buy Now With $1,000 10/18/2023 08:00pm • If you have an extra $1,000 sitting in a savings or checking account, one of the best ways to earn a return on that money is to invest in the stock market. If you're new to investing, buying a low-cost S&P 500 exchange-traded fund, such as the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (ticker: SPY), is a relat Ole Miss's Beard heads into season as lone new head coach in SEC 10/18/2023 06:58pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Mississippi's Chris Beard is the SEC's lone new head coach a year after six programs made changes at the top. It's a splashy hire for a program that languished near the bottom of the league last season, but it was also notable for another reason. Ole Miss hired Beard in Mar Single dad and former Marine 'grunt' running Marine Corps Marathon's 50K knows all about overcoming adversity 10/18/2023 05:53pm • While thousands will run the 26.2 miles of the Marine Corps Marathon in D.C., there are some who will tack on some additional miles and run 50 kilometers. Former Marine Phil Pinti is accustomed to taking in a little bit more both on the racecourse and in life. And, he's no stranger to the twists Starbucks, Workers United union sue each other in standoff over pro-Palestinian social media post 10/18/2023 05:22pm • Starbucks and the union organizing its workers sued each other Wednesday in a standoff sparked by a social media post over the Israel-Hamas war. Starbucks sued Workers United in federal court in Iowa Wednesday, saying a pro-Palestinian social media post from a union account early in the Israel-Ha Lawsuit dropped after school board changes course, adopts Youngkin's transgender student policy 10/18/2023 04:31pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Washington-based attorney confirmed Wednesday his firm was dropping litigation it filed last month regarding Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s new policies on transgender students because the school board his firm sued has since adopted guidelines consistent with t Ex-official who pleaded guilty to lying to feds in nuclear project failure probe gets home detention 10/18/2023 03:57pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former official for the contractor hired to build two never-completed nuclear reactors who pleaded guilty to lying to federal authorities was sentenced Tuesday to six months’ home detention. Carl Churchman, 72, must wear a monitoring device, pay a $5,000 fine and serve a What are the signs of burnout in young athletes? 10/18/2023 03:15pm • Burnout: It's something many people experience and for athletes who are focused on being the best at their sport, it is common. While this includes professional adult athletes, it is also prevalent among child athletes. Dr. Keyur Desai, a primary care sports medicine physician at Children’s Nat Wisconsin counting on QB Braedyn Locke's work ethic to help him make up for his lack of experience 10/18/2023 02:24pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin is replacing one of the nation’s more experienced college quarterbacks with a guy who had thrown just one career pass before Saturday. Braedyn Locke is Wisconsin’s starting quarterback for the foreseeable future with sixth-year senior Tanner Mordecai out indefini Gio Reyna scores twice in 4-0 rout of Ghana, his first US goals since family feud with Berhalter 10/18/2023 12:05pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gio Reyna ran to the corner flag with a wide smile, then hugged Christian Pulisic and more American teammates. About a half-hour later, Reyna did it again and jumped with an arm overhead in front of the fans and tapping his chest for emphasis. Reyna scored his first two int Zoos and botanical gardens find Halloween programs are a hit, and an opportunity 10/18/2023 10:09am • Enormous warty pumpkins. Carnivorous plants. Immersive arachnid displays. Slithering snakes and fluttering bats. And illuminated displays of hundreds, or thousands, of ornately carved jack-o’-lanterns. Zoos and botanical gardens have become increasingly popular Halloween destinations. Their haunti Report: Young driver fatality rates have fallen sharply in the US, helped by education, technology 10/18/2023 06:45am • NEW YORK (AP) — Crash and fatality rates among drivers under 21 have fallen dramatically in the U.S. during the past 20 years, a new report says, while noting young drivers are still the riskiest group behind the wheel. Using data from 2002-2021, a non-profit group of state highway safety offices Australian journalist says she was detained for 3 years in China for breaking an embargo 10/18/2023 01:11am • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian journalist Cheng Lei says she spent more than three years in detention in China for breaking an embargo with a television broadcast on a state-run TV network. Cheng‘s first television interview since she was freed was broadcast in Australia on Tuesday almost Suspect in Holloway disappearance to appear in federal court for extortion case; plea deal possible 10/17/2023 09:21pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An attorney for the mother of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, who disappeared in Aruba, said a possible plea deal with a suspect in an extortion case is contingent upon his disclosing details about her death. Joran van der Sloot, long considered the chief suspect in Hollo Father and other family members are convicted in New Mexico kidnapping and terrorism case 10/17/2023 08:26pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jurors on Tuesday convicted a father of terrorism charges in a case that stemmed from the search for a 3-year-old boy who went missing from Georgia and was found dead hundreds of miles away at a squalid compound in northern New Mexico in 2018. Prosecutors told jurors that A new memoir serves up life lessons from a childhood in a Chinese restaurant 10/17/2023 08:11pm • Many parents tell their children never talk to strangers. But Curtis Chin's parents urged their six kids to ask customers at their Chinese restaurant about their background. It was their way of showing the children a world outside the Detroit restaurant's four walls. “That is something my parents