By: Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press
BELGRADE, SERBIA (AP).- Serbian police searching for a war-crimes fugitive on Thursday instead found photographs of a stolen Modigliani painting they suspect is in his possession. The war crimes prosecutor’s offic…
Exhibit Opens on Curious George’s Wartime Escape
By: Holly Ramer, Associated Press
WATERVILLE VALLEY, NH (AP).- Long before he pedaled himself into all sorts of mischief in “Curious George Rides a Bike,” the famous monkey took a much more harrowing ride when his creators escaped the Nazi invasion of …
South Carolina Archaeologists Say Confederate Wreck Found
By: Meg Kinnard, Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP).- The recent discovery of what is believed to be a Confederate gunboat scuttled by its own crew in the Civil War’s waning days could yield valuable knowledge about the South’s sputtering attempts to…
Colorado Monument Offers ‘Pocket-Size Grand Canyon’
By: Judith Kohler, Associated Press
COLORADO NATIONAL MONUMENT, CO (AP).- Just off Interstate 70 in western Colorado is a 32-square-mile collection of towering red-stone monoliths, deep canyons and a road that cuts through nearly 2 billion years of geo…
Las Vegas’ Neon Boneyard Highlights Glitzy Past
By: Cristina Silva, Associated Press
LAS VEGAS, NV (AP).- The stack of giant neon letters just beyond the gates of the Neon Boneyard in Las Vegas are unlit. Flecks of turquoise, ruby and jade paint chips dot the gravel field. There are rusted metal bea…
Raptor-like Dinosaur Discovered in Eastern Utah
By: Josh Loftin, Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY, UT (AP).- A small, feathered raptor-like dinosaur thought to be 125 million years old has been discovered in eastern Utah, scientists announced Thursday. The Geminiraptor suarezarum was bipedal and, lik…
Gallery Protests Smithsonian’s Removal of Video
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- A Washington art gallery is showing a video that was removed from the National Portrait Gallery to protest what it calls censorship by the Smithsonian Institution. The Transformer Gallery began sh…
Climate Activists in Egypt Use Art to Send Message
By: Maggie Hyde, Associated Press
CAIRO (AP).- More than 200 students and environmental activists gathered Friday in the desert outside Egypt’s capital to form an image of a giant scarab visible from space to raise climate change awareness. The image …
Founder of Chicago’s DuSable Museum Dies
By: Sophia Tareen, Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP).- A founder of one of the oldest African-American history museums in the country has died. A spokesman for the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago, Raymond Ward, says Margaret Burroug…
Work to Begin on National Mall Levee
By: Jessica Gresko, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- Construction will soon begin on a new barrier to protect downtown Washington, D.C. and the National Mall from Potomac River flooding in the event of a massive storm. Officials said Monday that th…