Tina Turner dies at 83, Jimmy Carter in good spirits in hospice care, and more of the week's top news
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From news of the death of rock and roll icon Tina Turner, to former president Jimmy Carter's updates in hospice care, here's some of the top national news this week.
- By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer
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Tina Turner, who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and '70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping "What's Love Got to Do With It," has died at 83.
- By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press
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Lawyers for columnist E. Jean Carroll who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation award against former President Donald Trump have filed an amended lawsuit against him seeking to hold him liable for remarks he made after the verdict.
- MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — Oath Keepers extremist group founder Stewart Rhodes was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison for orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a bid to keep President Joe Biden out of the White House after winning the 2020 election.
- STEPHEN WHYNO Associated Press
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Baffert headed to the winner’s circle on the same day that his colt Havnameltdown went down with a fatal left leg injury in an undercard race.
- JESSE DUARTE St. Helena Star
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Talk about overdue — a man returned a book to a library in California that was due in 1927, a whopping 96 years late.
- ADELE UPHAUS The Free Lance–Star
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Not only was Makiah Burke in Jennifer Rojohn's very first class as a public-school teacher in 2010, but he has kept up a tradition of visiting her at the beginning and end of every school year since.
- BRIAN NIEMITZ New York Daily News
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NASA is forecasting a busy weekend in space, with objects the size of buses, airplanes — and yes, even 18 walruses stacked in a row — but you needn’t change your plans.
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