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Tour de France start in 2024 to be staged in Italy

Dec. 21, 2022 04:59 PM EST
PARIS (AP) — Italy will host the start of the Tour de France for the first time in 2024. Race organizers confirmed on Wednesday that the “grand départ”...

Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah, left, wins the 100 meters, as American track and field sprinter Sha'carri Richardson, second from left, also competes, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021, at the Prefontaine Classic track and field meet in Eugene, Ore. Richardson finished in last place. (AP Photo/Thomas Boyd)
Thompson-Herah wins 100, Richardson last in return

By Anne M. Peterson Aug. 21, 2021 06:59 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: South Carolina

By The Associated Press Jun. 02, 2021 01:30 PM EDT
(Charleston) Post and Courier. May 31, 2021. Editorial: SC school district consolidations finally starting to add up. We need more still ...

The Chipola College team celebrates after winning the JUCO college baseball World Series, on June 2, 2018, in Grand Junction, Colo. The Junior College World Series is on again after being canceled in 2020 because of the pandemic. The double-elimination tournament, also known as the JUCO World Series, has been held in Grand Junction since 1959. (Courtesy of Todd Bennett via AP)
JUCO World Series is back in its panoramic Colorado home

By Richard Rosenblatt May. 22, 2021 01:11 PM EDT

A woman steps past a Gucci's advertisement campaign selected for an exhibition to celebrate creative vision of a creative director Alessandro Michele at Gucci Garden Archetypes, in Florence, Italy, Thursday, May 13, 2021. Alessandro Michele has radically shifted Gucci codes and challenged fashion norms in 6 ½ years as creative director at the brand founded by Guccio Gucci as a travel bag company in Florence 100 years ago. To mark the centenary, Michele has curated an exhibit in the brand's shop, restaurant and exhibition space, Gucci Garden, on Florence’s Piazza della Signoria, that underlines some watershed moments: An advertising campaign for perfume featuring a transgender model, an all-Black cast for Pre-Fall 2017 campaign, and a lipstick campaign featuring everyday faces in all their imperfections. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
Gucci marks 100 years with exhibit on Michele code-breaking

By Colleen Barry May. 14, 2021 11:46 AM EDT

In this photo made available Thursday, April 22, 2021, the underground area of the Uffizi Gallery is seen after renovation works, in Florence, Italy, Friday, April 16, 2021 . Recently discovered frescoes and new rooms filled with statuary will give visitors “a glorious introduction” Florence’s Uffizi Galleries when the museum reopens after months of COVID closure. Starting with the reopening, visitors will enter the museum from the west wing, facing the Arno River, where workers restoring galleries have discovered hidden beneath plaster and on ceilings frescoes dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. (Uffizi Gallery via AP)
Italy's Uffizi discovers lost frescoes during COVID shutdown

By Colleen Barry Apr. 23, 2021 07:42 AM EDT

FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021 file photo elderly people wait for the COVID-19 vaccine at the Don Orione rest home in Rome. In some Italian region lawyers, magistrates, professors and other younger professionals got vaccinated against COVID-19 before octogenarians despite government pledges of prioritizing Italy’s oldest citizens. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
Young professionals cut ahead of older Italians for vaccine

By Frances D'emilio And Colleen Barry Apr. 03, 2021 02:28 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Alabama

By The Associated Press Mar. 10, 2021 08:00 AM EST
Recent editorials from Alabama newspapers: ___ March 7 The Decatur Daily on Gov. Kay Ivey extending...

Another Florence restaurant fined over COVID-19 restrictions

Feb. 24, 2021 06:23 PM EST
FLORENCE, Ore. (AP) — State officials have fined another Florence restaurant for several violations of guidelines meant to protect employees from COVID-19. ...

Florence café fined nearly $18K over COVID-19 rules

Feb. 23, 2021 06:37 PM EST
FLORENCE, Ore. (AP) — The state of Oregon has fined a Florence restaurant nearly $18,000 for willfully exposing workers to COVID-19 after an investigation in...

FILE - In this Jan 13, 2021 file photo, Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is mobbed by reporters as he walks near Palazzo Chigi government headquarters, in Rome, Wednesday, Jan 13, 2021. Former premier Matteo Renzi is testing his already low popularity by provoking a political crisis that could bring down the government at yet another critical juncture in the fight against the pandemic. The outcome Renzi’s powerplay - orchestrating the resignations of two ministers from his tiny but key Italia Viva party - will play out this week, when Premier Giuseppe Conte addresses both houses of Parliament in a bid to win support and form what would be his third coalition government since elections in 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
EXPLAINER: Italy faces a political crisis amid a pandemic

By Colleen Barry Jan. 17, 2021 03:11 AM EST

This combination photo of images released by Hershey Felder Presents shows Hershey Felder in character as composers, from left, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Claude Debussy and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Florence, Italy. Felder's upcoming show of Tchaikovsky on Sunday will benefit over 20 national and international theaters, arts organizations and publications. (Hershey Felder Presents via AP)
Live from Italy, Hershey Felder tells stories, helps others

By Mark Kennedy Dec. 17, 2020 10:24 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: Alabama

By The Associated Press Nov. 11, 2020 01:13 PM EST
Recent editorials from Alabama newspapers: ___ Nov. 11 The TimesDaily on Veterans Day and...

Editorial Roundup: Alabama

By The Associated Press Oct. 21, 2020 11:19 AM EDT
Recent editorials from Alabama newspapers: ___ Oct. 21 The Decatur Daily and The TimesDaily on...

Editorial Roundup: Alabama

By The Associated Press Sep. 30, 2020 12:51 PM EDT
Recent editorials from Alabama newspapers: ___ Sept. 30 The Times Daily on upcoming municipal...

A restorer works on one of Michelangelo's Pieta sculpture in Florence, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. A restoration of one of Michelangelo’s Pieta sculptures has uncovered previously unknown details, including the artist’s tool marks, that had been hidden under centuries of dust and wax. Florence’s Museo dell’Opera del Duomo said Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020 that the cleaning of the Bandini Pieta, which began last year but was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic, had resumed and that the public was now invited to watch restorers at work. Michelangelo carved the Bandini Pieta between 1547-1555, when he was nearly 80. (Claudio Giovannini/Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore via AP)
Restorers uncover new details in a Michelangelo Pieta

Sep. 16, 2020 10:09 AM EDT

Plant with nearly 500 workers closing in north Alabama

Sep. 11, 2020 11:05 AM EDT
FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — A factory that employs hundreds of people manufacturing railroad cars in north Alabama is closing amid declining demand linked to the...

Editorial Roundup: Alabama

By The Associated Press Jul. 08, 2020 02:37 PM EDT
Recent editorials from Alabama newspapers: ___ July 8 The Times-News on communicating back-to...

Editorial Roundup: Alabama

By The Associated Press Jun. 17, 2020 01:57 PM EDT
Recent editorials from Alabama newspapers: ___ June 15 The Times-News on combatting summer ...

Visitors arrive on the reopening day of the Uffizi museum, in Florence, Italy, Wednesday, June 3, 2020. The Uffizi museum reopened to the public after over two months of closure due to coronavirus restrictions. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
No crowds delight art lovers in Italy at reopened museums

By Trisha Thomas And Frances D'emilio Jun. 03, 2020 12:01 PM EDT