Young people dance in The Matchmaker Bar during the Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival in Lisdoonvarna, Ireland, on Sept. 27. The annual event, known as Europe’s biggest matchmaking festival, draws thousands seeking love, music and dancing. Rob Stothard for NPR hide caption toggle caption Rob Stothard for NPR LISDOONVARNA, Ireland — Years ago, while traveling with my family along Ireland’s west coast, …
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An early morning fire tore through a shopping center in Nederland on Thursday, leveling a Boulder County sheriff’s substation and torching at least 15 businesses including a children’s nature center and a popular brewery. No injuries were reported in the fire, which broke out about 3:30 a.m. in the Caribou Village Shopping Center and sent flames 20 feet in the …
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CINCINNATI – If you want to know how much work there is to be done to get new Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Flacco up to speed, consider that the team has nixed what typically is a 12- to 15-minute, post-practice Wednesday news conference for the starting quarterback. It’s not that the Bengals are reluctant to commit to Flacco being the …
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Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham in an early publicity photograph for Gilmore Girls. The show premiered in October 2000, set in the fictional small town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. Getty Images/Hulton Archive hide caption toggle caption Getty Images/Hulton Archive The town of New Milford in the leafy hills of northwest Connecticut looks like the set of Gilmore Girls come to …
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At 6:45 p.m. Friday, the Cranford High football team sprinted onto Memorial Field, and the marching band played at full blast. As the Cougars and their visiting opponent, the Rahway Indians, settled on their respective sidelines, the public address announcer asked all in attendance to rise and share in a moment of silence as VFW Post 335’s color guard halted …
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A small city in South Texas is scrambling to find alternative sources of drinking water as severe drought grips the region and threatens to dry up its main supply. The city of Mathis typically pumps its drinking water from Lake Corpus Christi, but worsening drought conditions are expected to plunge water levels too low to safely extract usable water, according …
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HONOLULU — Officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui have lifted evacuation orders for residents living near a wildfire that broke out late Tuesday. Police went door-to-door evacuating residents and emergency sirens sounded before firefighters stopped the blaze’s forward progress. Emergency shelters were also closing late Tuesday as residents returned home. The fire, which grew to about 300 acres (40 …
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New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani said Monday that he withdrew from a local ABC town hall in protest of the network’s decision to suspend late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel. Mamdani blasted the “cowardice” of the network’s parent company, Disney, in its decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air indefinitely in the wake of pressure from the …
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Democratic mayoral nominee and Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani will announce Monday that he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week, amNewYork has learned. Mamdani, his campaign exclusively told amNewYork ahead of the announcement, is making …
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For four years, Robert Redford and his wife Sibylle Szaggars lived in a hillside “cottage” in Tiburon, with spectacular views of Angel Island and San Francisco Bay. They enjoyed Tiburon’s restaurants and promenade looking out towards San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge, along with the community’s walking paths and “friendly vibe,” Redford once said. The couple sold the house …
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