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FedEx, Greenbrier rise; Cisco Systems, KB Home fall, Thursday, 9/21/2023 09/21/2023 04:17pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Thursday: FedEx Corp., up $11.33 to $261.85. The package delivery company reported strong fiscal first-quarter earnings. FactSet Research Systems Inc., up $2.99 to $426.76. The financial data provider gave investors a m 'Euphoria' star Angus Cloud accidentally overdosed on meth, cocaine, fentanyl, coroner says 09/21/2023 02:31pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Actor Angus Cloud died in July of an accidental overdose of cocaine, fentanyl and other substances, a Northern California coroner's office said Thursday. Cloud's cause of death was “acute intoxication" due to the “combined effects of methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl a Former US Sen. Dick Clark, an Iowa Democrat known for helping Vietnam War refugees, has died at 95 09/21/2023 02:27pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Dick Clark, a Democrat who unexpectedly won a single term representing Iowa in the 1970s after campaigning by walking around the state, and who later played a key role in aiding refugees after the Vietnam War, has died. He was 95. Clark died Wednesday at hi In chic Soho, a Hindu temple offers itself as a spiritual oasis 09/21/2023 01:19pm • On Broome Street, in the heart of Manhattan’s fashionable Soho neighborhood, a Hindu temple dedicated to the elephant-headed deity Ganesha is striving to develop its own sense of cool. Its location allows it to draw guest teachers such as prominent spiritual author Deepak Chopra, and devotees — NBA superstar Kevin Durant puts his name on Bowie State's basketball court 09/21/2023 01:08pm • Prince George’s County, Maryland, native and NBA superstar Kevin Durant played his college ball at the University of Texas, but for years as a kid, his family would come to the campus of Bowie State University for youth games and tournaments. After pledging to help remodel the gym at Ma Side hustles take center stage in paying bills for Hollywood workers on strike 09/21/2023 11:49am • NEW YORK (AP) — Lighting for the entertainment industry is Ryan Meyer's lifeblood. Before the Hollywood strikes, he worked 40 hours a week or more as a gaffer or director of photography. He also has a company that usually earns more than a million dollars a year in production support. Most of that Why Arlington Co.'s libraries will declare themselves book sanctuaries 09/21/2023 11:20am • Many libraries across the country are getting ready to observe Banned Books Week from Oct. 1-7, but Arlington County, Virginia, has plans to go one step further. Library Director Diane Kresh said, thankfully, controversy over books is not a big issue in Arlington. "To me, that makes the onus a More military personnel head to the US-Mexico border as officials describe an increase in migrant crossings 09/21/2023 08:08am • (CNN) — The Defense Department is ramping up resources at the US-Mexico border as officials describe a surge in border crossings in places including Eagle Pass, Texas, where the mayor has declared a state of emergency. Some 800 new active-duty personnel are being sent to the border, where 2,50 Code Orange: Snow days in Prince William Co. schools now be live, virtual instruction days 09/21/2023 06:35am • This article was written by WTOP's news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com's free email subscription today. Prince William County schools recently announced a change in the division's remote-learning policies for "Code Orange" winter weather days Loudoun Co. parents meet and greet new school superintendent, hope to 'restore the trust' 09/21/2023 06:30am • Loudoun County Public School parents in Virginia got the chance Wednesday night to meet and greet the new school Superintendent Aaron Spence, who has been on the job for three weeks. Spence launched his countywide "listening tour," with a visit to Broad Run High School, the first of 18 planned se Italian rockers MÃ¥neskin continue to revive the genre, selling out Madison Square Garden 09/21/2023 12:39am • NEW YORK (AP) — Huddled together on a snakeskin couch in a New York hotel, their euphoria was infectious. MÃ¥neskin just played a pop-up lunchtime show in Times Square, and now they learned their Madison Square Garden show scheduled for later in the week was a sellout. Pleasantly surprised, frontm Japan's troubled Toshiba to delist after takeover by Japanese consortium succeeds 09/20/2023 11:19pm • TOKYO (AP) — A 2 trillion yen ($14 billion) tender offer for troubled electronics and energy giant Toshiba by a Japanese consortium has been completed, clearing the way for it to be delisted, the company said Thursday. In the tender offer, announced last month and ended Wednesday, the number of s Oscar Pistorius is eligible for parole after serving half of his murder sentence, new documents say 09/20/2023 10:42pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius was eligible for parole in March under South African law and the double-amputee Olympic and Paralympic runner may have been wrongly denied early release from prison because of a miscalculation over when he began serving his sentence for murder, court Video shows officer repeatedly discussed charging 11-year-old victim with child sexual abuse offense 09/20/2023 09:54pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Columbus police officer summoned to a home by a father concerned his 11-year-old daughter was being solicited by an adult man repeatedly asserted that the girl could face charges for sending explicit images of herself. Body camera footage obtained by The Associated Press sh Suspect in ambush killing of LA deputy pleads not guilty due to insanity 09/20/2023 09:16pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man charged with murder in the ambush killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity on Wednesday. Officials say Kevin Cataneo Salazar fatally shot 30-year-old Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer, who was sitting in a patrol car,