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Chicago police have more questions for ‘Empire’ actor

Chicago police and representatives for Jussie Smollett were keeping quiet about the investigation into areported attack on the “Empire” actor a day after authorities said the case had “shifted” and that they want to interview Smollett again.

Las Vegas center studies effects of head blows in bull riders

Aaron Semas can count the number of severe concussions he’s suffered on 10 fingers. Past that, the retired professional bull rider can’t remember how many times he hit his head in his 20-plus-year career in the arena.

Airlines to start offering ‘nonbinary’ ticketing choice

Major U.S. airlines say they will soon change their ticketing process to give passengers the option of identifyingthemselves as other than male or female.

 
Las Vegas instructor ‘found the light in barbering’

Royal Byron paved a way for aspiring barbers in Southern Nevada when he became the state’s first licensed barber instructor in 2000, and then again in August 2008, when he opened the state’s first barber school.

Lee Radziwill, sister of Jackie Kennedy, dies

Lee Radziwill, the stylish jet setter and socialite who found friends, lovers and other adventures worldwidewhile bonding and competing with her sister Jacqueline Kennedy, has died. She was 85.

‘Alita’ leads slow Presidents Day weekend box office

The sci-fi fantasy “Alita: Battle Angel” has topped the charts in its first weekend in theaters, but it is leadingone of the slowest Presidents Day weekends at the box office in years and has a ways to go to make up its costly productionbudget.

Minor league baseball team to have peanut-free ballpark

Kerry Adamowicz hoped that a meeting with Hartford Yard Goats officials might lead to a few peanut-free days or maybe a peanut-free section at the Double-A baseball team’s stadium, so her son and other children with food allergies could enjoy a game.