Today is Monday, May 5, the 125th day of 2025. There are 240 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7. Also on this date: In ...
Today is Monday, April 21, the 111th day of 2025. There are 254 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 21, 2016, Prince, one of the most inventive and influential musicians of modern times, was found dead at his home in suburban Minneapolis from an accidental fentanyl overdose; he ...
Marquette and vicinity: Rain, possibly mixed with sleet before 4pm, then rain and snow. High near 39. East wind 10 to 15 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow and sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Tonight, rain and snow showers before 11pm, then a chance of snow showers between 11pm and 2 am, then a slight chance of rain showers after 2 am. Low around 35. Northwest wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Little or no snow accumulation ...
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89. He was a prolific author and essayist with such celebrated novels as “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los Perros) and “Feast of the Goat,” and won myriad prizes. The Nobel committee said it was awarding him in 2010 “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individul’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.” “It is with deep sorrow that we announce that our father, Mario Vargas Llosa, passed away ...
By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A 30-year-old community service program that sends young adults to work on projects across the U.S. was the latest target of the Trump administration ‘s campaign to slash government spending. AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps informed volunteers Tuesday that they would exit the program early “due to programmatic circumstances beyond your control,” according to an email obtained by The Associated Press. The unsigned memo to corps members said NCCC’s “ability to sustain program operations” was ...
By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press PASADENA, California (AP) — Aty Rotter lost her family home and her spiritual home in the ravenous fire that scorched a large swath of Los Angeles County earlier this year. The house her late father built in Pasadena more than 60 years ago is gone to the ...
