Month: October 2023

Tyler Christopher, known best for his role as Nikolas Cassadine on daytime’s long-running soap opera General Hospital, has died. The Emmy winner actor was 50. Christoper’s former co-star, Maurice Benard, who has played mob boss Sonny Corinthos on the soap opera for three decades, confirmed the news on Instagram. ‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry dead at

AUSTIN (KXAN) – The Texas Longhorns check in at No. 7 in the initial College Football Playoff rankings. They are the highest ranked team in the Big 12. Ohio State, Georgia, Michigan, Florida State, Washington and Oregon are the six teams in order ahead of the Longhorns. Rival Oklahoma checks in at No. 9 after

Some of the biggest names in the world of music will hit Chicago in 2024, including a legendary rock band saying farewell and the most-streamed artist in the world. The latter, Bad Bunny, will play three shows at the United Center in the coming year. The Eagles will launch their farewell tour in 2024 as

The commissioner of the beleaguered city jails department is leaving his post for a new job in City Hall, Mayor Eric Adams announced late Tuesday. Department of Correction Commissioner Louis Molina has been appointed as the new assistant deputy mayor for public safety, the mayor said in a press release. He will report to Deputy

Chicagoans who show up at the polls in March will be asked to authorize a fundamental change in tax policy to confront the burgeoning problem of homelessness. The City Council’s Rules Committee made it happen Tuesday by putting a binding referendum on the ballot asking Chicago voters to authorize the City Council to quadruple the

Tuesday, October 31, 2023 11:39PM SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The good old-fashioned BART ticket is about to become a thing of the past. BART says it will stop selling paper tickets on Nov. 30. The change is coming as BART is getting ready to install new fare gates which do not accept paper tickets. MORE:

From a historical donation to the University of Virginia’s business school to the significant expansion of a space and science museum in California, these are notable recent developments in the world of philanthropy. Michael Bloomberg makes a major gift to Israel’s medical emergency services Michael Bloomberg at the 2023 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on Oct.

Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Max, Apple TV+ – It doesn’t matter which streaming service you subscribe to; they’re all jacking up prices. Netflix recently increased its basic plan from $9.99 to $11.99 per month. Hulu went from $14.99 to $17.99. Apple raised subscriptions from $6.99 to $9.99. Max went from $14.99 to $15.99, and Disney+ raised

NEW YORK — Actor Robert De Niro shouted “Shame on you!” as he testified Tuesday in a New York courtroom, directing the comments toward his former executive assistant and vice president who is seeking millions of dollars after accusing her former boss of being abusive. Graham Chase Robinson watched with her lawyers while De Niro‘s

On Tuesday, groups of therapy animals and their handlers paraded through Terminals A and B at San Jose Mineta International Airport (SJC) decked out in Halloween costumes. The group of mostly therapy dogs, and one rabbit name Alex the Great, welcomed passengers as they passed various gates receiving lots of smiles, selfies, and pats on

One of Michael Malone’s core coaching philosophies with the Nuggets is rooted in an old-school but obvious idea. “What I do now obviously is trying to have Nikola (Jokic) or Jamal (Murray) on the floor at all times, and that’s something that my father would always talk about,” Malone said Monday before the Nuggets defeated

Former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric has regularly bordered on the incitement of violence. Lately, however, it has become even more violent. Yet both the press and the public have largely just shrugged their shoulders. As a political philosopher who studies extremism, I believe people should be more worried about this. Mark Milley, the outgoing chairman

Local News The boy is in critical condition after undergoing emergency surgery. A Cranston man was arrested Tuesday after police say he accidentally shot his 4-year-old son in the head.  Cranston police said Michael Jones, 33, has been charged with felony assault, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, and firing in a compact

Elon Musk said that conservative users of X, formerly Twitter, were suppressed “10 times the rate” of liberal users prior to him taking over the company. Musk, the platform’s CEO, obtained X in October 2022 and quickly made headlines after signing off on a series of reports published by independent journalist Matt Taibbi in late

More than three weeks after she was taken hostage by Hamas operatives, 18-year-old Natalie Raanan is finally sleeping in her own bed. The Evanston teen was taken hostage from the Nahal Oz kibbutz in southern Israel Oct. 7 along with her mother Judith Raanan, 59. The mother and daughter were released into Red Cross custody,

Robert De Niro admitted Tuesday he’d “berated” his former assistant and claimed she lacked “common sense” when overusing his frequent flyer miles, forcing his children to dig into their own pockets to pay for flights. “There were no written rules, but there were unwritten rules,” the Oscar winner said on the stand in Manhattan Federal