Month: April 2023

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Pulitzer Prize winning digital media company BuzzFeed will shut down its news division cuts another 15% of its staff across the company, adding to layoffs made earlier this year. BuzzFeed has approximately 1,200 total employees, according to a recent regulatory filing. In a memo sent to staff, co-founder and

By SEAN MURPHY and KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of death row inmate Richard Glossip. The decision Thursday by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals clears the way for Glossip to be executed on May 18. The 60-year-old can still ask the state’s

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Robin Thede says the fourth season of her hit HBO series “A Black Lady Sketch Show” is bigger and more expansive. Thede, who is creator, showrunner and executive producer, says the show has “become bigger than me.” The fourth season welcomes new cast members, DaMya

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican airline Viva Aerobus says one of its planes suffered an engine failure while covering a domestic route, but that the craft landed safely. The twin engine Airbus A320 was flying from the western city of Guadalajara to the Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta when the mishap occurred Wednesday

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Todd Haimes, who led the Roundabout Theatre Company from an off-off-Broadway company teetering on the edge of bankruptcy into a major theatrical force with works on five stages — including three Broadway theaters — and dozens of Tony Awards, has died. He was 66. Haimes,

GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old North Carolina girl and her parents. A neighbor says the Tuesday night shooting near Gastonia happened after children tried to retrieve a basketball that rolled into 24-year-old Robert Louis Singletary’s yard. Gaston County Police Chief Stephen Zill declined

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Amazon is asking Virginia for nearly $153 million in state incentive payments. It would be the first tranche of funds to be paid out since the tech giant agreed in 2018 to build a headquarters complex in the state. The application comes even as Amazon