A 38-year-old Portland public school math teacher thought he was having a conversation with a 13-year-old girl when he began a sexual role play and talked about driving to California to meet her, court records show. Portland police and federal agents arrested Craig Douglas-Meyers at his home in the Montavilla neighborhood on Friday. The suspect […]
STATEN ISLAND, NY – Governor Kathy Hochul has announced that Labor Day weekend will begin with a new free fishing day. The addition of this day – scheduled for Saturday, August 31 – brings the total number of free fishing days in 2024 to seven. “There is no better way to say goodbye to summer […]
CATALONIA, Spain – Maria Branyas Morera, the world’s oldest person, has died at the age of 117, according to Guinness World Records. Her family announced her death on Tuesday on the social media platform X. “Maria Branyas has left us. She died as she wanted: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain,” the post said. […]
Dear Annie: A longtime friend of mine moved to Utah a little over a year ago with a man twice her age. They met in similar careers and travel together. She helped babysit his 10-year-old son. We were best friends throughout our childhood and even as we got older we remained close to varying degrees. […]
When I started making music and listening to it seriously as a musician in 1964, most of the artists I admired were male. There were the Beatles, the Stones, Donovan, the Beach Boys and the Yardbirds. Of course there was Cilla Black and Helen Shapiro and Dusty Springfield and Lulu, but they didn’t write their […]
