NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans pressed ahead with plans to reopen the city’s famed Bourbon Street on Thursday as investigators kept digging into the background of the U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A blackout hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early Tuesday as the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate New Year’s, leaving more than 1.3 million clients in the dark. Officials…

LAHARPE — The Lee family Christmas gift exchange will be loaded with sentimentality Wednesday — and a dash of competition. On purpose. In fact, Harry and Joyce Lee have already told each of their seven…

LAS VEGAS — Clark County wedding officials are bringing the licensing bureau to airline travelers coming in for a special wedding date on New Year’s Eve. A pop-up Marriage License Bureau is open at Harry…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan Seacrest will become the new “Wheel of Fortune” host after Pat Sajak’s retirement next year.  Seacrest and Sony Pictures Television announced Tuesday that Seacrest has signed a multi-year deal to…

BERLIN — Successive countries are marking the coming of the year 2022, with many holding muted celebrations amid the coronavirus pandemic. Celebrations were under way in Europe, where despite unseasonably mild weather, many large parties…

Mother Nature is gearing up to bring in 2022 like a lion. After a docile start to winter, the forecast will take a turn for the cold and wet starting Friday, with a winter storm…

LAHARPE — Weekly bingo games at the LaHarpe Willis J. Ross Veterans of Foreign Wars Post will not be held this week or next, because the Friday games would have fallen on Christmas Eve and…

NEW YORK (AP) — With COVID-19 cases spiking, New York City officials said Wednesday they’re opening more testing sites and restricting visiting at city-run hospitals and jails — but having crowds in Times Square for…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a New Year’s Eve reveler accidentally shot himself while preparing to fire a celebratory round in Kansas City, Kansas. Police Chief Terry Zeigler tweeted that the shooting happened…