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Pat Riley lays out vision for Heat season, says it could dictate Miami's future 10/23/2023 03:15pm • MIAMI (AP) — Pat Riley tends to look at things in five-year increments, and that might make this a very important season for the Miami Heat. With the current Miami core — Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro — about to start its fifth season together, the Heat president said he still beli Milwaukee comic shop looking to sell copy of first appearance of Spider-Man, book could go for $35K 10/23/2023 10:45am • MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee comic book shop is looking to sell a rare copy of the first appearance of Spider-Man. Collector's Edge has acquired a copy of Amazing Fantasy No. 15, the Journal Sentinel reported. The comic book, written by Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee and published in 1962, tells the UAW's confrontational leader makes gains in strike talks, but some wonder: Has he reached too far? 10/23/2023 10:13am • WAYNE, Mich. (AP) — Throughout its 5-week-old strikes against Detroit’s automakers, the United Auto Workers union has cast an emphatically combative stance, reflecting the style of its pugnacious leader, Shawn Fain. Armed with a list of what even Fain has called “audacious” pay and benefit d UAW's confrontational leader makes gains in strike talks, but some wonder: Has he reached too far? 10/23/2023 09:52am • WAYNE, Mich. (AP) — Throughout its 5-week-old strikes against Detroit’s automakers, the United Auto Workers union has cast an emphatically combative stance, reflecting the style of its pugnacious leader, Shawn Fain. Armed with a list of what even Fain has called “audacious” demands for bette Things to do in the DC area: Halloween, fall festivals, pumpkin patches … and more! 10/22/2023 07:21am • This weekend and beyond, the calendar is chock-full of spooky fun, including fall festivals, haunted trails, corn mazes, pumpkin picking and other spooktacular things to do. Every Thursday WTOP brings you a roundup of Things to do in the DC area. This week, we focus on some of the uncanny events Egypt's border crossing opens to let a trickle of desperately needed aid into besieged Gaza 10/22/2023 12:24am • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The border crossing between Egypt and Gaza opened Saturday to let a trickle of desperately needed aid into the besieged Palestinian territory for the first time since Israel sealed it off and began pounding it with airstrikes following Hamas' bloody rampage two weeks ago. Hurricane Norma makes landfall near Mexico's Los Cabos and Tammy hits tiny Barbuda in the Caribbean 10/21/2023 11:56pm • CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Norma came ashore near the resorts of Los Cabos at the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on Saturday afternoon, and hours later Hurricane Tammy made landfall on the Caribbean island of Barbuda. Both storms were Category 1 hurricanes when t Businesses are the biggest targets of financial crimes. Help is being offered in Prince George's Co. 10/21/2023 04:40am • October isn’t even over yet and already fraud and scams have cost Prince George’s County, Maryland, residents and businesses more than $10 million. With the holiday shopping season almost upon us, there’s concern that the number will go up even more. “Because of their large balance she Houston's next mayor has big city problems to fix. Familiar faces want the job 10/21/2023 12:00am • HOUSTON (AP) — The challenges facing Houston’s next mayor are familiar to many big cities: crime, crumbling infrastructure, budget shortfalls and a lack of affordable housing. But in November’s marquee mayoral election in the U.S., the top candidates promising to turn Houston around are two De Data Doctors: Google Maps vs. Waze 10/20/2023 05:26pm • Q: What's the difference between Google Maps and Waze for navigation? A: One of the most important smartphone apps we all use on a regular basis is a mapping app, but it’s become much more than getting from point A to point B. Google owns both mapping apps as they acquired Waze in 2013 but k Mid Atlantic Daybook 10/20/2023 04:32pm • Associated Press Mid Atlantic Daybook for Friday, Oct. 20. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Mid-Atlantic bureau is reachable at 202-641-9660 an After 189 bodies were found in Colorado funeral home, evidence suggests families received fake ashes 10/20/2023 02:16pm • COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado funeral home where 189 decaying bodies were discovered this month appears to have fabricated cremation records and may have given families fake ashes, according to information gathered by The Associated Press from customers and crematories. The families th Judge rules Alex Jones can't use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying Sandy Hook families 10/20/2023 01:41pm • HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has ruled that Infowars host Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying more than $1.1 billion to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax. The decision is another significant defeat for Jones in th Dove Cameron drops new spiky banger, 'Lethal Woman,' ahead of debut album 'Alchemical: Volume 1' 10/20/2023 08:01am • NEW YORK (AP) — Dove Cameron's latest single starts with the sound of maniacal laughter and then a piano riff that could have been swiped from “The Phantom of the Opera.” She's just getting started. “Lethal Woman” is a club banger about a woman “sharp as a knife under the table” that i Communities can't recycle or trash disposable e-cigarettes. So what happens to them? 10/19/2023 05:12pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — With the growing popularity of disposable e-cigarettes, communities across the U.S. are confronting a new vaping problem: how to safely get rid of millions of small, battery-powered devices that are considered hazardous waste. For years, the debate surrounding vaping largely cent