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Biden admin broke its September air travel promise

Several months before the holiday season, airlines had already been delaying their flights. Many airlines had laid off their employees during the pandemic, and by the summer of 2022 they found themselves unable to meet historically normal demand for air travel. The Biden administration promised to manage the problem… and… Read More

Trailblazing Hollywood producer dies at 95

Edyth “Edie” Landau, the Oscar-nominated producer and executive vice president of National Telefilm Associates, has died at 95. The longtime entertainment producer died of natural causes on Saturday in her home in Century City, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Reporter said Tuesday. After studying at Wilkes College, Landau… Read More

Mega Millions jackpot balloons to $640M after no winner Tuesday

A giant Mega Millions jackpot grew larger Wednesday to an estimated $640 million after another drawing without a winner. No one won the lottery game’s top prize Tuesday night, making it 21 straight drawings without anyone matching all six numbers. The next drawing will be Friday night. Scientific Experiment On… Read More

New Orleans guitar legend dies at 79

New Orleans music legend Walter “Wolfman” Washington, a cornerstone of the city’s musical nightlife for decades, has died of cancer, just days after turning 79. Washington died Dec. 22 at Passages Hospice, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported. Funeral services are scheduled for Jan. 4. at 2 p.m. at Jacob… Read More

Cameraman hurt on New Mexico film set nets $66M in lawsuit

A Los Angeles cameraman who suffered a spinal cord injury while on a New Mexico movie set has been awarded more than $66 million in a lawsuit, among the largest settlements in the state’s history, a news outlet reported. The Santa Fe New Mexican quoted Jame Razo as saying that… Read More

Northern California statue of meat-packing magnate beheaded

The statue of a 19th-century Northern California rancher and meat-packing magnate was decapitated earlier this week, leaving investigators in the state’s capital city scratching their heads to find a motive behind the vandalism. Tipsters could receive a $1,000 reward for information about what befell the nearly century-old granite statue of… Read More

Midwestern waitress gets $1,000 tip from Christmas customer

A Wisconsin waitress got a Christmas morning surprise from a customer — a $1,000 tip. Callie Blue, 29, was waiting tables at Gus’s Diner in Sun Prairie, just outside Madison, at 6 a.m. Sunday when she started chatting with one of the few customers in the restaurant at that hour,… Read More

Southwest cancels more flights Wednesday with investigation looming

Southwest Airlines scrubbed thousands of flights again Tuesday in the aftermath of the massive winter storm that wrecked Christmas travel plans across the U.S., and the federal government said it would investigate why the company lagged so far behind other carriers. A day after most U.S. airlines had recovered from… Read More

Celebrity chef eats his way through Spain with daughters

On his new TV show, celebrated chef José Andrés goes into a restaurant kitchen in Spain and confronts a massive moray eel. Only one of them is leaving that kitchen intact. Andrés oversees as cooks prepare the eel for it’s final flourish — deboned, sliced paper thin, dredged in three… Read More