Day: February 16, 2017

Doctor Strange

I was looking forward to watching this pretty much because of the sequences I saw in the ads with the Escher-like city transformations. So let's start with the good: The movie does indeed present some action sequences that are quite novel, from those aforementioned city manipulations to the fight in Hong Kong that takes place while time is reversing.

Rings: The strange history of a horror film franchise

This coming week, 12 years after The Ring movie franchise last haunted cinemas, the vengeful ghost Samara and her cursed video are back in search of new victims. Like any savvy supervillain with staying power, she's learned to adapt: In Rings , Samara's third go-round , she's upgraded from frightening curious souls to death through that worn-out VHS tape to killing them via handy, easy-to-transfer digital files.

Monopoly Retires Thimble Game Piece

Originally added to Monopoly in 1935, the thimble game piece will no longer ship with the iconic real estate-based board game. During a month of voting in the " Monopoly Token Madness " campaign, more than 4 million votes were cast to save current tokens and add new pieces to the game.

Autopsy heightens strange death of Downing girlFeb. 16, 1948 Today at

The mysterious death of Laura Downing, 27, whose frozen body was found three weeks ago in her car at Milan, was heightened today by the delayed release of the findings of an autopsy. Erie County Coroner James Walker said the examination revealed that a four months pregnant woman died "apparently by freezing" and showed no traces of alcohol or known poisons or drugs in her body.

Transcript: Donald Trump’s bizarre news conference in full

President Donald Trump spars with reporters for more than an hour, declaring his administration is 'running like a fine-tuned machine' even though he 'inherited a mess'. US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced his new nominee for labour secretary, Alexander Acosta, during a news conference at the White House.

Spanish woman, 64, gives birth to healthy twins

A 64-year-old woman has given birth to healthy twins following her second successful pregnancy at an advanced age, a doctor in northern Spain said. A 64-year-old woman has given birth to healthy twins following her second successful pregnancy at an advanced age, a doctor in northern Spain said.

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This Feb. 13, 2017, photo released by the Indiana State Police shows a man walking along the trail system in Delphi, Ind. Indiana authorities want to talk to the man in connection with the killings of two teenage girls.

Player benched when ice rescue causes him to miss team bus

A New York high school basketball player who helped rescue an ice fisherman from Lake Ontario was kept from suiting up for a game because the heroics caused him to miss the team bus. WWNY-TV reports Lucas Patchen was among the volunteer firefighters in Clayton who rescued a stranded fisherman from a drifting ice slab Saturday.

Half-ton concrete bird snatched from perch at chicken farm

That's what sheriff's deputies in Alexander County, North Carolina, are trying to figure out as they search for the concrete statue that disappeared from a farm west of Taylorsville over the weekend. Deputies think the statue was taken sometime between 8 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday from the driveway of the farm.

Trump’s Bizarre Stream of Consciousness Pressie

"Unfortunately, much of the media in Washington, D.C., along with New York, Los Angeles in particular, speaks not for the people, but for the special interests and for those profiting off a very, very obviously broken system," Trump said, echoing many of the complaints he made as a presidential candidate. "The press has become so dishonest that if we don't talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people.