4+ hour, 59+ min ago   (285+ words) TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — An Alabama jury on Thursday awarded $9.25 million in damages after finding that The New York Times defamed a college basketball player by incorrectly reporting that he was at the scene of a fatal shooting in Tuscaloosa. Kai Spears,…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (794+ words) Son Little loves making music, but he craves total quiet, too. “My creativity comes out of the silence,” he said in a recent video interview ahead of his June 20 performance at the Sinclair. “Long periods of silence and solitude lend…...

4+ mon, 7+ hour ago   (665+ words) How is it that no entertainer thought to name their big concert tour “Everybody Scream” until Florence Welch? You hear the phrase at arena shows of every style. It is, of course, one way to convince the audience they aren’t…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (609+ words) “I didn’t know anything about nobody getting hurt until we were on the way back. No, nobody supposed to get hurt,” Burton said in a telephone interview last month from Alabama’s Holman Correctional Facility. Burton, 75, is scheduled to be put…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (452+ words) MANCHESTER, N.H. — An attorney representing the mother of Harmony Montgomery in a wrongful death lawsuit against the girl’s father, who was convicted last year of fatally beating the 5-year-old in 2019, said on Tuesday he was surprised a judge dismissed the case....

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (704+ words) Alabama is preparing to execute a man convicted of killing a woman during a 1997 gas station robbery in what will be the nation’s latest execution carried out with nitrogen gas. Geoffrey Todd West, 50, is scheduled to be executed Thursday night…...