GREENSBURG, La. (AP) - The father of actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry is OK after a fire destroyed his Louisiana home.
Officials in Greensburg, Louisiana, tell WAFB-TV (http://bit.ly/2nA6MwE) that Emmett Perry was home at the time the fire was reported about 8 Monday night. St. Helena Parish Sheriff Nat Williams ...
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - The University of Missouri will pay $80,000 to a search firm helping the university find a new men's basketball coach.
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/2njdWZV ) the university released details of its contract with the Parker Executive Search firm on Monday.
The fee doesn't include ...
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LONDON (AP) - A doctor's posthumously published account of his life with terminal cancer is among six finalists for the medically themed Wellcome Trust Book Prize.
Paul Kalanithi's "When Breath Becomes Air" is among six books shortlisted for the prize, open to fiction or nonfiction works published in Britain that ...
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A man whose drunken driving crash claimed the life of a Miami Heat dancer has begun a 15-year sentence.
The Miami Herald (https://goo.gl/DcFQI4 ) reports 49-year-old Mario Careaga turned himself in to authorities Monday in South Florida's Broward County. He was convicted of DUI manslaughter ...
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VIENNA (AP) - Austria forward Guido Burgstaller will return to the national team for next week's World Cup qualifier against Moldova and a friendly against Finland.
Missing from the team since being dropped ahead of the 2016 European Championship, the Schalke player has been included in the 23-man squad announced ...
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DERBY, England (AP) - English club Derby has moved swiftly to replace fired manager Steve McClaren, bringing in former player Gary Rowett as its fifth coach in 13 months.
Rowett was hired Tuesday, two days after McClaren departed for the second time with Derby in 10th place in the second-tier ...
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