NFL regular-season ratings saw a 3% decrease from last season, which was not unexpected with “Thursday Night Football” moving from Fox and NFL Network to exclusively airing on Amazon Prime Video.
HONOLULU — A preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report says a cloud shot up vertically like a plume of smoke in a matter of seconds before a Hawaiian Airlines flight last month hit severe turbulence, injuring 25 people on board, including six seriously.
HONG KONG — Ray Cordeiro, who interviewed music acts including the Beatles during a six-decade career on Hong Kong radio that earned him the title of the world’s longest-working disc jockey, has died.
Mourners who gathered at the gravesite Friday are marking what would have been the 70th birthday of Joseph Augustus Zarelli _ the 4-year-old found dead in 1957 and long known as the “Boy in the Box.” A month ago, police learned his identity through DNA, detective work and genealogical records.
That will be the temporary moniker for the building where the NBA team plays its home games, while the search for a more permanent naming-rights partner commences.
BALTIMORE — Baltimore’s new top prosecutor has dropped all charges against a Black man who stood trial four times for the same killing, freeing him after seven years in custody.
The zoo tweeted Friday that the cat named Nova, who weighs about 20-25 pounds, did not appear injured and was found near her original habitat.
NEW YORK — Questioned for a lawsuit, former President Donald Trump hurled insults and threatened to sue the columnist who accused him of raping her in a department store in the 1990s.
NEW YORK — Robbie Bachman, the drummer for the Canadian hard rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive that was known for such 1970s hits as “Takin’ Care of Business” and “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet,” has died at age 69.
Williams has been active in criminal justice reform after he spent most of his adult life on probation following an arrest as a teenager for drug and gun charges.