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Review: Broadway's 'Bad Cinderella' gets lost in the woods
As you settle into your seat at Broadway's “Bad Cinderella,” the subtle sound of piped-in birdsong greets you. Enjoy it while you can. The next few hours will be a frantic onslaught. The show that opened Thursday at the Imperial Theatre is a hyped-up, over-caffeinated fractured...
Regulators, landowners form habitat protection partnership
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration and industry groups pledged Thursday to promote logging practices and research intended to protect imperiled species on private forest lands. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and two forest products organizations signed a...
Muddy clothes? 'Cop City' activists question police evidence
ATLANTA (AP) — When police stormed an Atlanta-area music festival two days after a rainstorm, they were looking for suspects wearing muddy clothing. Authorities moved in on the South River Music Festival on the evening of March 5, over an hour after more than 150 masked activists...
China says deadly 2022 plane crash still being investigated
BEIJING (AP) — Experts are still investigating the cause of the crash of a China Eastern Airlines jetliner that killed 132 people one year ago, China's government said Monday. The March 21, 2022, disaster was a rare failure for a Chinese airline industry that dramatically improved...
In Zimbabwe's rainy season, women forage for wild mushrooms
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's rainy season brings a bonanza of wild mushrooms, which many rural families feast upon and sell to boost their incomes. But the bounty also comes with danger as each year there are reports of people dying after eating poisonous fungi. Discerning...
German police: 2 children in custody over girl's killing
Berlin (AP) — German police said Tuesday that two children are in custody suspected of killing a 12-year-old girl found dead earlier this week in the western town of Freudenberg, in a case that has shocked the country. The girl, who was only identified by her first name Louise due...
AP PHOTOS: Objects of war become new normal in Kyiv
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — There are sandbags around the statues and anti-tank obstacles by the side of the streets, trenches in the nearby forests and land mine warnings in the woods. Signs painted on walls point to the nearest shelter, while air raid sirens occasionally wail across the city, which...
Autopsy: 'Cop City' protester had hands raised when killed
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — An environmental activist who was fatally shot in a confrontation with Georgia law enforcement in January was sitting cross-legged with their hands in the air at the time, the protester’s family said Monday as they released results of an autopsy they commissioned. ...
Homicide inquiry for Arkansas teen found dead in Mississippi
WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) — Officials in Arkansas say they are investigating the death of a high school senior as a homicide after the 18-year-old was found dead in a Mississippi national forest. Fredarrious Wilson, who was last seen in his hometown of West Memphis, Arkansas on March...
Indonesia unveils construction site of new capital city
PENAJAM PASER UTARA, Indonesia (AP) — Orange-red ground has been broken in the jungle of East Borneo, where the Indonesian government has begun construction of its new capital city. Officials promise a “sustainable forest city” that puts the environment at the heart of...
