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How to increase your odds of living to 100 10/02/2024 05:58pm • Former President Jimmy Carter turned 100 on Tuesday, becoming the first U.S. president to live a full century. Living the last 19 months in home hospice care, the��39th president keeps defying expectations. The number of Americans ages 100 and older is projected to more than quadruple over the ne Which Virginia roads see the most close-calls between pedestrians and cars 10/02/2024 05:28pm • In Northern Virginia, speeding, distracted driving and failing to yield are leading to close calls between cars and people on foot or on bicycles, according to a new report. The findings are from the Northern Virginia Families for Safe Streets nonprofit organization, and the data comes from hundr Movie Review: Helen Mirren tells a story of evil and hope during WWII in ���White Bird��� 10/02/2024 04:36pm • It���s never a bad time for stories celebrating acts of kindness, but the current news cycle makes it ever so more appreciated. In the new film ���White Bird,��� in theaters Friday, the act is quite significant: A family in Nazi-occupied France shelters a young Jewish girl, whose friends and family Hurricane Helene victims include young siblings killed by falling tree as they slept 10/02/2024 03:33pm • Falling trees and raging floods from Hurricane Helene killed more than 150 people when it struck Florida late last week and then plowed through the Southeast as one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history. People died in six states: Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vi Coach praises Tim Walz's son for helping protect other kids after shooting 10/02/2024 02:52pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� When the issue of gun violence came up at the vice presidential debate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had a personal story to tell: His teenage son, Gus, had been at a sports center last year when a shooting took place. Gus Walz was at volleyball practice at the Jimmy Lee Recreation C Tribes celebrate the end of the largest dam removal project in US history 10/02/2024 02:43pm • The largest dam removal project in U.S. history was completed Wednesday, marking a major victory for tribes in the region who fought for decades to free hundreds of miles of the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border. Through protests, testimony and lawsuits, local tribes showcased the envi Army returns remains of 9 Indigenous children who died at boarding school over a century ago 10/02/2024 02:12pm • CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) ��� The remains of nine more Native American children who died at a notorious government-run boarding school in Pennsylvania over a century ago were disinterred from a small Army cemetery and returned to families, authorities said Wednesday. The remains were buried on the grounds Javier Bardem on Gaza: ���We cannot remain indifferent��� in call for hostage release and cease-fire 10/02/2024 01:39pm • Javier Bardem was no longer comfortable being silent on Gaza. The Spanish actor spoke out about the Israeli-Hamas conflict upon accepting an award at the San Sebastian Film Festival last week. In his nuanced remarks, Bardem condemned the Hamas attacks as well as the ���massive punishment that the Pa Federal court rejects Murdaugh's appeal that 40 years is too harsh for stealing millions 10/02/2024 12:47pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� A federal court has rejected Alex Murdaugh's request to throw out his 40-year sentence for stealing from clients and his law firm. The disgraced South Carolina lawyer said his punishment is a decade longer than what prosecutors recommended. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel Virginia school board to pay $575K to a teacher fired for refusing to use trans student's pronouns 10/02/2024 09:00am • WEST POINT, Va. (AP) ��� A Virginia school board has agreed to pay $575,000 in a settlement to a former high school teacher who was fired after he refused to use a transgender student���s pronouns, according to the advocacy group that filed the suit. Conservative Christian legal advocacy group Al Cleaning and testing continues after lead discovered in Alexandria elementary school's classrooms 10/02/2024 05:47am • They're still cleaning and testing at Naomi L. Brooks Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia, where a window replacement project exposed particles of old lead paint last week. The health risks to children, teachers and staff from lead exposure forced the closing of the school building Friday. '#No More': Prince George���s Co. asks community to help as domestic violence concerns rise 10/02/2024 05:38am • Every month, thousands of protective orders are requested in Prince George���s County, Maryland, amid a rise in domestic violence since the pandemic started and hasn���t shown signs of abating. On Oct. 1, the first day of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Prince George���s County Council member Sex workers find themselves at the center of Congo's mpox outbreak 10/02/2024 03:48am • KAMITUGA, Congo (AP) ��� It's been four months since Sifa Kunguja recovered from mpox, but as a sex worker, she said, she's still struggling to regain clients, with fear and stigma driving away people who've heard she had the virus. ���It���s risky work,��� Kunguja, 40, said from her small home in Vance and Walz keep it civil in a policy-heavy discussion: VP debate takeaways 10/02/2024 01:44am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Vice presidential hopefuls Tim Walz and JD Vance focused their criticism on the top of the ticket on Tuesday as they engaged in a policy-heavy discussion that may be the last debate of the 2024 presidential campaign. It was the first encounter between Minnesota���s Democratic gov Justice Department finds Georgia is 'deliberately indifferent' to unchecked abuses at its prisons 10/01/2024 11:49pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Georgia prison officials are ���deliberately indifferent��� to unchecked deadly violence, widespread drug use, extortion and sexual abuse at state lockups, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday, threatening to sue the state if it doesn���t quickly take steps to curb rampant viola