MASON, Ohio (AP) — A roller coaster has been shut down at an Ohio amusement park because a chain that pulls the cars broke over the Fourth of July weekend. Spokesman Don Helbig at Kings Island near Cincinnati says the tow chain on the Vortex snapped as it was pulling one of the ride’s three [...]
For The Madison Press Country music singer Justin Billotte will be performing at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 16, at The MustardSeed Café, 94 W. Main St., West Jefferson. There will be a $3 cover charge for this performance. A new artist with a classic style, Billotte has a way of staying true to country music [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC has signed James Spader as a full-time cast member of “The Office.” The network announced Wednesday that Spader will reprise his guest role as manipulative salesman Robert California when the comedy returns this fall. California will have been hired over the summer as the new manager of the Scranton office [...]
HUDSON, Ohio (AP) — A northeast Ohio teen is one of 16 young Americans awarded scholarships to train this summer at Russia’s famed Bolshoi Ballet Academy. Sixteen-year-old Laurie Nielsen of Hudson was among 2,000 teen dancers who applied for a new six-week program sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the Russian American Foundation. The [...]
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Jackson spent the last months of his life frightened and on edge, convinced that he would be killed by people wanting to get access to his valuable music catalog, according to his sister, La Toya Jackson. Jackson makes the claims in her new book, “Starting Over,” [...]
By JENNY BARCHFIELD PARIS (AP) — While the tough economy has pushed many other designers from the realm of the edgy and into the consensual, Rick Owens continues to cater to the margins with a spring-summer 2012 collection dominated by what’s possibly menswear’s hardest sell: the man skirt. The California-born designer served them up in [...]
The name “resort” is a holdover from the days when brands would offer a few key pieces for their wealthy snowbird customers who’d flee cold climates at Christmastime. The modern definition, however, has evolved to be more of a code word for new, fresh merchandise.
Aaron Garrett is the only man in Madison County to have a SAG. At 22, the former Madison-Plains state qualifying wrestler is not sagging anywhere. He is as fit as they come.
