Sports

World Cup 2014: U.S. team buoyed by attention, hype back home

SAO PAULO (AP) — The last time the U.S. played in a World Cup in Brazil, just one American reporter was on hand, using vacation time and paying his own way. Sixty-four years later, about 100 credentialed U.S. […]

Entertainment

‘Designing women’ star Meshach Taylor dies at 67

The Associated Press Meshach Taylor, who played a lovable ex-convict surrounded by boisterous Southern belles on the sitcom “Designing Women” and appeared in numerous other TV and film roles, died of cancer at age 67, […]

News

Child, 3, dies when Italian ice shop door falls on her

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities were investigating how a metal security grate detached and fell from the facade of an Italian ice shop Saturday afternoon, killing a 3-year-old girl. The girl was at the Rita’s Water […]

Education

Mississippi universities seek $76.3 million budget increase

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The College Board voted Friday to seek an additional $76.3 million in state funding for Mississippi’s eight public universities when the Legislature gathers next year to write the 2016 budget. That’s […]

News

Former Chik-fil-A employee accused of robbing KFC

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — A man who worked at a Chik-fil-A restaurant in northern South Carolina has been accused of robbing a KFC. Fifty-year-old old Jeffrey Coley is accused of taking $516 from the […]