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Gwyneth Paltrow ski collision trial brings doctors to stand
By Sam Metz, The Associated Press on March 22nd, 2023
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) – Doctors are expected to testify on Wednesday in a trial about a 2016 ski crash between Gwyneth Paltrow and a retired Utah man suing her and claiming her recklessness left him with lasting injuries and brain damage. On the opening day of the trial, Paltrow and retired optometrist Terry Sanderson ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Once a TV show, ‘Smash’ to make its Broadway bow in 2024
By Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press on March 22nd, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – The glitzy, fictional Broadway musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe that formed the heart of the TV show “Smash” will make the leap to an actual Broadway stage next season. Producers said Wednesday that “Smash” is slated for Broadway in the 2024-25 season, welcome news to many of the show’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Willie Nelson honored with Texas educational endowment
By Acacia Coronado, The Associated Press on March 22nd, 2023
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Weeks after winning more Grammys, Willie Nelson is getting a new kind of honor: a university endowment in Texas. The 89-year-old country music icon, who in the 1980s helped launch the Farm Aid benefit concerts, is the namesake of the new Willie Nelson Endowment for Uplifting Rural Communities at the University ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pioneer of gospel music rediscovered in Pittsburgh archives
By Jessie Wardarski, The Associated Press on March 22nd, 2023
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Scattered in crates, dirty and difficult to read, the gospel music of composer Charles Henry Pace sat packed away, unorganized – and unrealized – for more than 20 years. Frances Pace Barnes, the pioneering music publisher’s daughter who remembers how he could turn a hum it into a song, knew the crates ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sotheby’s hopes for record sale of ancient Hebrew Bible
By Ilan Ben Zion, The Associated Press on March 22nd, 2023
JERUSALEM (AP) – One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete, 1,100-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours – for a cool $30 million. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment tome containing almost the entirety of the Hebrew Bible, is set to go on the block at Sotheby’s in New York in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Doctors expected to testify in Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski trial
By Sam Metz, The Associated Press on March 21st, 2023
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) – More witnesses are expected to testify on Wednesday in a trial about a 2016 ski crash between Gwyneth Paltrow and the retired Utah man suing her and claiming her recklessness left him with lasting injuries and brain damage. On the opening day of the trial, Paltrow and retired optometrist Terry ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Springsteen, Kaling, Louis-Dreyfus among 22 honored by Biden
By Darlene Superville And Colleen Long, The Associated Press on March 21st, 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden welcomed a high-wattage collection of singers, authors, artists and humanitarians to the White House on Tuesday to present them with medals – and then stole the show himself with a quip about seeking reelection. Bruce Springsteen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mindy Kaling and Gladys Knight were among the 22 people and ... Read More »
1 responseFox, Dominion face off over airing of false election claims
By Randall Chase And Nicholas Riccardi, The Associated Press on March 21st, 2023
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – Fox News and a voting machine company that claims the conservative network defamed it by amplifying baseless allegations of fraud following the 2020 presidential election faced off in a courtroom Tuesday during a key hearing over whether journalists have a responsibility to be cautious with explosive and implausible allegations. Denver-based Dominion ... Read More »
1 responsePitbull to kick off first day of Calgary Stampede
By David Friend, The Canadian Press on March 21st, 2023
TORONTO – Mr. Worldwide is coming to Calgary. Organizers of the Calgary Stampede say they’ve booked rapper and pop performer Pitbull to perform at the first day of the annual rodeo and exhibition on July 7. The Miami hitmaker is known for his country-fused dance-pop collaboration “Timber” with Kesha and various other radio favourites, including ... Read More »
1 responseGwyneth Paltrow’s lawyer calls Utah ski collision story ‘BS’
By Sam Metz, The Associated Press on March 21st, 2023
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) – Gwyneth Paltrow’s lawyer called the story of a retired optometrist who is suing her over a 2016 ski collision “utter B.S.” on Tuesday during the trial’s opening day in Utah, where the actor-turned-lifestyle influencer appeared in court, and tried to shield herself from photographers’ view with a notebook. Paltrow and ... Read More »
1 responseDef Leppard drummer recovering from attack outside hotel
By The Associated Press on March 21st, 2023
Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen says he recovering from an attack earlier this month outside a Florida hotel. Allen, who was in South Florida to perform a show at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, was attacked while taking a smoke break outside the the Four Seasons hotel on Fort Lauderdale Beach. Police arrested ... Read More »
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