By LEEN YASSINE/Block Club Chicago Block Club Chicago A life-size bronze sculpture of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert is coming to Chicago, and a local producer is a driving force behind the effort. Pam Kasper, who has been working on a Siskel and Ebert documentary with director Michael ...
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press The Oregon man who fatally shot a teenage gunman to end a deadly rampage at an elementary school last week says he was the children's "last line of defense" and that he regrets not arriving soon enough to save them all. Kaylub Giamanco, whose two ...
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, seeking to help Republican Sen. Susan Collins in a tough reelection battle in Maine, is exempting some imports — including plywood sheets, packing crates and some machinery — from the 50% tariffs he ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Portions of a Mississippi ban on diversity, equity and inclusion practices in public schools can go into effect after the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court's ruling that blocked sections of the law from being enforced. The parts of the law ...
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is moving fast on its plans to build a moon base and return astronauts to the lunar surface in as little as two years. Administrator Jared Isaacman said Friday that the space agency is still on track to launch ...
By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press A man accused of killing a North Carolina college student 14 years ago was convicted Friday of first-degree murder, rape and other charges after prosecutors told jurors that forensic evidence was "screaming his name." Faith Hedgepeth was a 19-year-old ...
