By: Danica Coto, Associated Press
SAN JUAN (AP).- Jose Antonio Torres Martino, a Puerto Rican painter and writer who helped create and expand art and journalism institutions on the U.S. island, died Friday. He was 94. Torres died at Pavia Hospital in S…
Czech Town Offers History, Castle, Beer and Bears
By: Shirley O’Bryan Smith, Associated Press
CESKY KRUMLOV (AP).- Centuries of history have earned this Czech town a designation as a UNESCO World Heritage site. It’s a Bohemian beauty, tucked into a horseshoe bend on the Vltava River, with interesting …
Restored Martin Luther King Church Reopening in Atlanta
By: Errin Haines, Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP).- The voice of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. again filled the halls of Ebenezer Baptist Church and a pipe organ triumphantly announced the reopening of the sacred sanctuary regarded as the birthplace o…
United States Library to Save Famous Baseball, Country Tunes
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON, D.C (AP).- The 1908 tune, “Take Me Out to the Ball-game,” that became the anthem for America’s favorite pastime, will be preserved at the Library of Congress, along with 24 other recordings chosen for the…
Former British Soldier: I Broke into Auschwitz
By: Meera Selva, Associated Press
LONDON (AP).- A British prisoner of war described Friday how he struck up a forbidden friendship with a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp and then swapped places with him briefly to see first hand how Jewis…
Italian Governor Gian Mario Spacca Wants Shared Custody of Statue with the Getty Museum
LOS ANGELES (AP).- An Italian lawmaker offered a cultural exchange proposal Monday that sounded a little like an ultimatum, saying officials at the J. Paul Getty Museum should behave ethically and return knowingly looted art. Gov. Gian Mario Spacca of…
Concerns Over Indian Remains Stall LA Museum Grant
By: Jacob Adelman, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP).- More than $104,000 in federal grant money could be withheld from a Los Angeles County-supported museum if officials fail to resolve American Indian tribes’ concerns over remains found during the fa…
Los Angeles Birthplace Becomes Battleground over History
By: Jacob Adelman, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP).- Inside his trinket shop in the city’s El Pueblo historic district, Mike Mariscal is surrounded by painted masks, woven blankets and Day of the Dead figurines he’s long sold to tourists. Mariscal f…
Rhode Island Man Accused in $6M Con Says Witnesses Lied
By: Ian MacDougall, Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP).- As his trial drew to a close, a former Rhode Island art dealer said Friday that witnesses lied to the jury in claiming he duped them in what prosecutors call a $6 million con. Rocco DeSimone …
Stone Tool Troves Point to Highland Neanderthals
By: Nicholas Paphitis, Associated Press
ATHENS (AP).- High in the wind-swept mountain ridges of northern Greece, archaeologists have made a surprising discovery: hundreds of prehistoric stone tools that may have been used by some of the last Neandertha…