October 8, 2019 4:51 pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Eagles are planning massive performances of their album “Hotel California” during their 2020 tour. Performances of the band’s 1976 album will include a 46-piece orchestra and a 22-voice choir. Organizers announced Tuesday that in total, 77 musicians are expected to be onstage while Eagles perform hits from the album including “New Kid in Town” and “Life in the Fast Lane.” The band’s 2020 tour will kick off Feb. 7 in Atlanta and end April 18 in Los Angeles. Stops will include New York, Dallas, Houston and San Francisco. The band recently performed the album in its entirety at shows in Las Vegas, the first time in its history that it had played the whole album in concert. Tickets go on sale Friday on Ticketmaster.
October 8, 2019 4:47 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – The parent company of Toys R Us is turning to a rival to restart its e-commerce business ahead of the holiday shopping season. Tru Kids Brands is teaming up with discounter Target Corp. to relaunch Toysrus.com, according to a joint release. The site, which launched Tuesday, features product reviews and directs browsers to a buy button at Target.com to complete the purchase. The moves come as the first two new Toys R Us stores – one in Houston, the other in Paramus, New Jersey – will open in November as part of a small comeback of the defunct iconic toy chain in the U.S. Target.com will also power online sales in the new Toys R Us experiential retail stores.
October 8, 2019 4:44 pm
UNDATED (AP) – The daughter-in-law of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has died after being diagnosed with cancer. Rainè Riggs was 46. The Lee & Martin Funeral Home in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, says Riggs died Saturday, the day Sanders returned to Vermont after suffering a heart attack. Her obituary said she was diagnosed recently with neuroendocrine cancer. Riggs, a neuropsychologist, was married to Levi Sanders, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2018. The couple had three children.
October 8, 2019 4:21 pm
DALLAS (AP) – Dallas police say three men are suspected in the killing of a man who testified at the trial of a Dallas police officer who killed her upstairs neighbor. Assistant Chief Avery Moore said at a news conference Tuesday that the three men from Alexandria, Louisiana, will face capital murder charges in last Friday’s killing of Joshua Brown. Moore says the three were in Dallas to buy drugs from Brown, who was fatally shot at a Dallas apartment complex. He says the killing was not tied in any way to Brown testifying at the murder trial of former officer Amber Guyger, who was sentenced last Wednesday to 10 years in prison for killing her neighbor, Botham Jean. Brown lived on the same floor as Jean and testified about what he heard the night Guyger killed him.
October 8, 2019 12:51 pm
WASHINGTON (WPXI) – The United States Supreme Court rejected an appeal by a man convicted and sentenced for a murder in January 2012. Jordan Clemons was sentenced to death by a Washington County jury for killing his then-girlfriend, Karissa Kunco. Prosecutors said he slit the woman’s throat so deeply the knife hit her spine. Her body was found in the woods and her car was found 7 miles away from the crime scene. It was full of blood and still running. The Washington County District Attorney said this ends Clemons’ direct appeal process.
October 8, 2019 12:35 pm
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) – A private, financially-troubled West Virginia college has hired a new president. Wheeling University said on Monday that Ginny Favede will become its 13th president. She has served as chairwoman of the university’s Board of Trustees since July. She replaces Michael Mihalyo, who was placed on leave in August. News outlets report Mihalyo is now suing the school, saying it lied to regulators about its finances. Wheeling University cut more than half its academic programs this fall due to financial concerns. It will resume offering majors in biology, engineering science and English in January. The school also will reinstate five sports teams starting next fall. Earlier this year, the school changed its name from Wheeling Jesuit University and ended its affiliation with the Jesuit order while maintaining its Roman Catholic identity.
October 8, 2019 8:41 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are welcoming an invitation by the panel’s Republican chairman for President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to testify about corruption in Ukraine. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the panel’s senior Democrat, said she wants to question Giuliani under oath about his role in seeking the Ukrainian government’s assistance to investigate one of the president’s political rivals. She said Democrats “have plenty of questions for Mr. Giuliani and this would give us an opportunity to help separate fact from fiction for the American people.” Fellow California Sen. Kamala Harris, a committee member and presidential candidate, tweeted to Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham: “Good. I have questions.” Graham, a Trump ally, said he wants testimony about the firing of a former Ukrainian prosecutor widely seen as corrupt.
October 8, 2019 7:47 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A Pittsburgh area couple found out where all their walnuts have gone. It turns out squirrels stored more than 200 of them under the hood of the couple’s SUV. Chris Persic tells KDKA-TV his wife called to say the vehicle smelled like it was burning. When she popped the hood, she found walnuts and grass piled over the engine. They took the SUV to a mechanic who found half a trashcan of walnuts under the engine. Persic says there was not any extensive damage. But a squirrel may have chewed through or pulled out the fuel injector hose on his new truck. The Persics have gotten a quote on removing a black walnut tree from their property.
October 8, 2019 4:37 am
DANVILLE, Pa. (AP) – A Pennsylvania hospital says it is transferring some infants following a bacterial infection in its neonatal intensive care unit that affected eight newborns, three of whom have died. Geisinger Medical Center in Danville said Monday that four of the babies have recovered and one is still being treated with antibiotics. The hospital said all of the babies had been born prematurely, and the three deaths “may have been a result of the infection complicating their already vulnerable state due to extreme prematurity.” Officials say they are working with state and federal health authorities to make sure the pseudomonas waterborne bacterial infection has been eradicated. As a precaution, the hospital is transferring babies born at less than 32 weeks to other hospitals and diverting other expected premature deliveries to other hospitals.
October 8, 2019 4:20 am
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – The solar system has a new winner in the moon department. Twenty new moons have been found around Saturn, giving the ringed planet a total of 82. That beats Jupiter and its 79 moons. The announcement came Monday. If it’s any consolation to the Jupiter crowd, our solar system’s biggest planet – Jupiter – still has the biggest moon. Jupiter’s Ganymede is almost half the size of Earth. By contrast, Saturn’s 20 new moons are minuscule, each barely 3 miles (5 kilometers) in diameter. The Carnegie Institution for Science’s Scott Sheppard, who led the discovery team, says 100 even tinier moons may be orbiting Saturn, still waiting to be found. Sheppard and his team used a telescope in Hawaii to spot Saturn’s 20 new moons over the summer.
