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  • California Gold Rush Town Votes To Remove Noose From City Logo

    Placerville was known as "Hangtown" in the mid-19th century after mobs of miners lynched some criminal suspects.

  • To Protest Scott Rudin, Broadway Star Karen Olivo Won’t Return to ‘Moulin Rouge’

    Broadway star Karen Olivo says she won’t return to “Moulin Rouge” once the musical reopens in protest of the theater industry’s silence on allegations of workplace harassment and abuse leveled against the prolific theater producer Scott Rudin. “I could easily go back to the show and make a lot of money, but I still wouldn’t […]

  • Ledyard Financial Group Named One of the Top 25 Bank Boards for Women

    Ledyard Financial Group (Ticker Symbol: LFGP), the holding company for Ledyard National Bank, is pleased to announce that it has been named as one of the top twenty-five bank boards for women, by Bank Director, an information resource for directors and officers of financial companies.

  • ‘The Bachelor’ Producers, Chris Harrison Celebrate Colton Underwood Coming Out

    Two years ago, Colton Underwood was cast as the hunky star of the hyper-masculine fairytale dating show, “The Bachelor.” Today, the reality star came out as gay, sharing his true and authentic self with the world. In conversation with Robin Roberts on “Good Morning America,” Underwood — a former pro football player who grew up […]

  • Colorado Boy, 12, Dies 19 Days After Choking Himself in ‘Blackout Challenge’ Found on TikTok

    “Everyone who knows Joshua can tell you what an incredibly intelligent, funny, caring, and gifted 12 year old he is,” Joshua Haileyesus' family wrote

  • Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei’s 2020 Pay Package Totaled $47 Million, Up From $44 Million Year Earlier

    Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei saw his total compensation rise to $47 million last year from $44 million in 2019 on large option and stock grants. Maffei’s base pay was $871,880 but he received an option award worth nearly $25 million and a stock award of $8.3 million, according to the company’s proxy statement filed […]

  • Apple May Have Found New Partners for Its EV Project

    A report from Korea Times says Apple is close to finalizing deals with LG and Magna International to build the long-rumored car.

  • Derek Chauvin trial: defense claims bad heart and drug use killed George Floyd

    Derek Chauvin trial: defense claims bad heart and drug use killed George Floyd. Dr David Fowler, testifying for the defense, also said vehicle exhaust may have played a part in Floyd’s death

  • Soccer-Real frustrate Liverpool to move into last four

    LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) -Real Madrid moved into the semi-finals of the Champions League with their makeshift defence holding on for 0-0 second-leg draw with Liverpool at Anfield on Wednesday earning them a 3-1 aggregate win. The Spanish side will face Chelsea in the last four as they search for their fifth Champions League title in eight years. Liverpool, the 2019 Champions League winners, created enough chances in the opening 45 minutes to have turned the tie around but they ran out of ideas in the second half.

  • Review: An intimate, wordless portrait of a pig in 'Gunda'

    The barnyard setting of “Gunda” could hardly be more familiar, but in Russian director Victor Kossakovsky's documentary, a pigsty is rendered an almost alien landscape. Kossakovsky's film is shot in textured black and white and his cameras are often situated, humbly, in the hay. “Gunda” is entirely invested in an intimate and artful view of farm animals, enlarging the lives of pigs, cows and chicken that so frequently end up on our plates.

  • Beware of this scary scam is targeting work from home employees: Here's what you need to know

    There are some pretty Big League scams making the rounds right now, but like all cyber security threats, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

  • Orchid Island Capital Announces Estimated First Quarter 2021 Results, April 2021 Monthly Dividend and March 31, 2021 RMBS Portfolio Characteristics

    Orchid Island Capital, Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE:ORC) announced today that the Board of Directors (the "Board") declared a monthly cash dividend for the month of April 2021. The dividend of $0.065 per share will be paid May 26, 2021 to holders of record on April 30, 2021, with an ex-dividend date of April 29, 2021. The Company plans on announcing its next dividend after the Board’s meeting on May 12, 2021.

  • Biden breaks with Obama, as well as Trump, on everything from Afghanistan to spending

    First with the coronavirus relief bill and now with the announcement that the U.S. will withdraw completely from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, Biden is charting his own course, making clear that his administration will not follow the “Obama 3.0” plot line some had predicted for him.

  • PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. Announces Date for 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders

    PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE: PFSI) today announced that it will hold its 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Thursday, June 3, 2021 virtually by means of a live webcast. Stockholders of record as of the close of business on April 6, 2021 are entitled to receive notice of, to attend, and to vote at the virtual annual meeting.

  • Islanders sign forward Adams to 2-year, 2-way contract

    The New York Islanders and forward Collin Adams have agreed to a two-year, two-way contract beginning in 2021-22. The Islanders announced the deal on Wednesday. Adams completed a four-year career at North Dakota this past season, setting career highs in goals (14), assists (20) and points (34) in 29 games.

  • Consistency in Scottish Government led to more Covid-19 trust, expert says

    A survey from last year found trust in government had fallen in England but remained steady in Scotland.

  • Turkey says soldier killed in rocket attack in northern Iraq

    A Turkish soldier was killed and a child was wounded after a rocket attack on a military compound in northern Iraq's Bashiqa region, the Turkish Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. Omer Celik, spokesman for President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party, said the perpetrators "would pay the price in kind." The news comes after a drone dropped explosives near U.S. forces stationed at Erbil airport in northern Iraq earlier on Wednesday, Kurdish officials said, with no immediate reports of casualties.

  • PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust Announces Date for 2021 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

    PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (NYSE: PMT) today announced that it will hold its 2021 Annual Meeting of Shareholders at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 virtually by means of a live webcast. Shareholders of record as of the close of business on March 30, 2021 are entitled to receive notice of, to attend, and to vote at the virtual annual meeting.

  • Psilocybin outperformed leading depression treatment

    Researchers compared the therapeutic potential of psilocybin – found in the mushrooms – with a six-week course of the antidepressant escitalopram in 59 people with moderate to severe depression.

  • U.S. cancels warships deployment to Black Sea -Turkish diplomatic sources

    The United States has cancelled the deployment of two warships to the Black Sea, Turkish diplomatic sources said on Wednesday, amid concerns over a Russian military build-up on Ukraine's borders. Washington and NATO have been alarmed by the build-up near Ukraine and in Crimea, the peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014.