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The Mistress of the Dark weighs in. Elvira appreciated Kylie Jenner‘s Halloween take on her iconic look, but there’s one thing she wishes the reality star did differently.

A South Carolina man almost lost out on $300,000 after forgetting he purchased a scratch-off lottery ticket during a quick trip to a gas station. The man, who wished to remain anonymous but is from the Midlands area, drove around with the winning ticket for two days before remembering he had bought it, according to the South Carolina Education Lottery. "I threw the ticket in the car’s console and forgot about it," the man told lottery officials.

A Kansas woman accused of murdering her ex-husband and his girlfriend two decades ago has been released on bond after a judge reduced the amount to $350,000 from $1 million last month. Dana Chandler, 62, was charged with two counts of murder in the July 2002 Colorado shooting deaths of Mike Sisco, 47, and Karen Harkness, 53, at their home in Topeka.

Topeka police officers shot and killed a man early Thursday after he walked toward them with a knife as they tried to intervene in a carjacking, authorities say. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a news release that a woman called 911 around 12:30 a.m.

A federal judge in Missouri will determine whether to temporarily block President Biden's student loan handout after attorneys representing the administration and several Republican-led states gave their arguments at a Wednesday hearing. Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and South Carolina challenged the program, claiming that the Department of Education lacks the authority to cancel debt to this degree. "What they’re trying to do is go around Congress, and this they can’t do," Nebraska Solicitor General James Campbell told U.S.

—that would guarantee the right to an abortion, but it failed in the Senate because Democrats didn’t have the 60 votes to pass the filibuster and didn’t have the majority needed to overrule the filibuster to pass this bill.Passing legislation would be a big deal, but it’s not the only thing Congress can do to protect abortion rights. A pro-choice majority in the House and Senate might also be able to finally pass the , which would guarantee equal protection under the constitution regardless of sex.

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin claimed Tuesday that inflation and immigration issues have a "Republican framing" and that the GOP has "misjudged" the abortion debate.  While discussing Vice President Kamala Harris' appearance on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" and immigration, Hostin dismissed inflation and immigration as central issues in the upcoming midterm elections and argued abortion would have a greater political impact.  "I reject the framing that the issue here really is about immigration and the issue here is about inflation because that’s a Republican framing. Really, the issue here is that the Republicans misjudged the abortion debate.They misjudged it, and it has serious traction in competitive races for the House and the Senate," Hostin said.  "By 51% to 32%, battleground state voters say Republicans are more extreme on abortion than Democrats.

A Wichita police officer was arrested early Saturday on suspicion of drunken driving, become the city's third officer to be apprehended within about two weeks. Police said in a release that the officer, who was off-duty, is also facing a charge of possession of a gun while intoxicated.The officer, who has been with the department for two years, has been placed on administrative leave while a criminal and internal investigation is conducted, the Wichita Eagle reported.

NBC, CNN and ABC panelists said Sunday that the OPEC+ announcement was "bad news for Democrats" as the midterm elections get closer and gas prices are expected to increase. During ABC's "This Week," host Martha Raddatz said the Democrats were "hopeful" about their midterm chances and asked ABC's Terry Moran if they were still feeling confident.

ABC senior national correspondent Terry Moran was less confident about the Democratic Party’s candidates this November during "This Week" Sunday. The main topic was the 2022 midterm elections which are less than one month away and could decide which political party will control Congress.Though co-moderator Martha Raddatz remarked on recent rebounding efforts by Democratic candidates over the summer, Moran claimed that the time has long passed.

Fans have been left surprised by a steamy clip of Meghan Markle appearing in the cult US show 90210 years ago. The Duchess of Sussex, 41, was a successful actress before she met Prince Harry and joined the Royal Family, and her credits include legal drama Suits and 2011 film Horrible Bosses.

WASHINGTON – With numerous polls showing Americans increasingly concerned about rising crime, Republican candidates nationwide are highlighting the issue in an effort to reach swing voters.  On Wednesday, Ohio GOP senate candidate J.D. Vance declared himself as a "law and order" candidate while campaigning with Donald Trump Jr. "I think American citizens, whether they're rich or poor, black or white, deserve to live in safe communities," said Vance in an interview with Fox News following the back the blue event.

A former high school teacher and coach allegedly had sex with a 17-year-old student on multiple occasions, both at his house and at the school, court records say.  Steven Mesa, 47, was arrested last month and charged with three felony counts of unlawful sexual relations with a student.  A mugshot of Steven Mesa. (Johnson County Sheriff’s Office) Police were notified about Mesa’s sexual relationship with a student at Olathe Northwest High School in late August, according to an affidavit unsealed Thursday by a Johnson County District Court judge.

Bloomberg reports that the pro-Donald Trump conservative channel is aiming to replace the audience it lost after pay-TV providers DirectTV and Verizon dropped it from their lineups.Founder and owner Robert Herring Sr. earlier this year urged One America viewers to pressure their providers to reinstate the channel, with no success.So now, the station, which has been accused of spreading misinformation about the 2020 election and still faces several lawsuits related to its reporting, is going old-school and setting up free, over-the-air subchannels in about 30 markets, with plans to reach about 100 by the end of the year, according to Bloomberg.Among the markets OAN is targeting: Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, Wichita, Kansas and Jacksonville, Florida.Last month, the company said it inked a deal to launch OAN 22 states with Zito Media of Potter County, Pennsylvania, stating that it was moving quickly to get its signal out before the midterm elections.Subchannels are a little-noticed corner of the TV business that is growing as more people cancel pay-TV and reinstall antennas on their homes to pick up free broadcast stations.

Ringo Starr has tested positive for Covid, a day after the former Beatle was forced to postpone a concert in Minnesota because of illness.

The busiest 82-year-old in show business, Ringo Starr, is being forced to cancel a date because of illness.

As told to Kailey Horton, 32, is a clinical program development consultant at a major national insurance company. She lives with her boyfriend, David, and four sons, Fynn, age six, Dresden, two, Vali, one, and Draugr, three months, in Burr Oak, Kansas. She had 12 weeks’ paid leave—six weeks of disability supplemented with paid time off, and six weeks of fully paid company family leave.Return to the main article.You’d think after having three children, birthing my fourth baby would have been easier.

peppered with bigotry and implied violence, while normal Kansas who aren’t fueled by made-up grievances made their own more substantial rebuttals. But in his monologue, Kimmel highlighted one of the cornier responses and offered an even better one of his own.“Former Brooklyn Borough President and current Mayor of New York, Eric Adams, is getting some heat for a comment he made about, of all places, Kansas,” Kimmel said, playing the clip of Adams’ comments.“First of all, I just want to say my wife went to Kansas and I have to defend them. Kansas does have a brand.

Michael Moore is feeling optimistic about the midterm elections despite what many pundits are saying. The Real Time with Bill Maher guest predicts that a massive voter turnout in the Fall will help Democrats keep control of the three branches of government.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Christina Anderson will receive the 2022 Horton Foote Prize for “the ripple, the wave that carried me home,” a play that examines racial justice, politics and family forgiveness. She will be honored at a private celebration at New York’s Lotos Club, where Anderson will be presented with $50,000 and a limited edition of Keith Carter’siconic photograph of Horton Foote, which is found in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Named after Foote, the writer of “Tender Mercies” and “The Trip to Bountiful,” the biennial prize recognizes excellence in American theater. It has been presented since 2010.

Hillary Clinton isn’t mincing words on today’s state of abortion access in the U.S., saying that the growing number of restrictions and bans in the aftermath of Dobbs v. Jackson “is dystopian.”“This is ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ writ large,” she said.

Sunny Day Real Estate played a warm-up show on Saturday (September 10) ahead of their reunion tour, which kicks off this week.The show at Spokane Club in Washington was their first time performing in 12 years, with the line-up including Jeremy Enigk, Dan Hoerner, William Goldsmith, and new bassist Chris Jordan.The band kicked off the gig with ‘Seven’, and also played ‘Pillars’, ‘In Circles’ and 2014 single ‘Lipton Witch’, before finishing with ‘Days Were Golden’.Sunny Day Real Estate are set to begin their reunion tour tomorrow (September 13) at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, Kansas, with dates throughout September, October and December. View ticket details here.A post shared by Sunny Day Real Estate (@sunnydayrealestate)Just a tiny little Sunny Day Real Estate warmup show in Spokane for a couple hundred emo folks.

Kane Brown is fresh off making history as the first male country singer to perform at the VMA's and just announced the U.S. leg of his "Drunk or Dreaming Tour."  The tour has 24 stops, starting on March 16, 2023 in Grand Rapids, Michigan and closing out in Greenwood Village, Colorado on June 10, 2023.  Brown will be joined by Dustin Lynch, Gabby Barrett and LoCash during his 2023 tour.  Kane Brown announced the U.S.

The Centers for Disease Control’s weekly variant proportions data update today offered the clearest indication yet that a new Omicron strain dubbed BA.4.6 may be able to outcompete now-dominant BA.5 in the United States.

Angelique Jackson Antonio Fargas (“Starsky and Hutch”) and Stephanie Sigman (“Miss Bala”) have joined star Mike Colter in Tubi’s ‘Murder City,’ the second movie filmed under Village Roadshow Pictures’ Black Noir Cinema franchise, co-founded by NBA great Kevin Garnett. Last December, Variety exclusively announced “Murder City” as one of the first films slated for Black Noir Cinema, a lineup of genre movies developed and produced by Village Roadshow and Tubi, which will exclusively debut on the Fox-owned free streaming platform. Described as a “thrilling contemporary crime story,” the film follows Neil (Colter), a disgraced former cop, who after losing his job on the police force is forced to work with the city’s most notorious — and ruthless — kingpin, Ash (Sigman), to settle the debts of his estranged, deadbeat father, Graham (Fargas), and protect his wife and son.

Scott Foley, who most recently appeared in Fox’s “The Big Leap,” has joined the cast of HBO Max’s upcoming political dramedy “The Girls on the Bus.” Foley will appear in a recurring role opposite the previously announced cast of Melissa Benoist, Christina Elmore and Natasha Behnam. The series revolves around Sadie McCarthy (Benoist), a journalist who bonds with three female colleagues while covering the ups and downs of a presidential campaign with flawed candidates.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Scott Foley has joined the cast of the upcoming HBO Max series “The Girls on the Bus,” Variety has learned. Foley joins previously announced cast members Melissa Benoist, Christina Elmore, and Natasha Behnam in the show, which was ordered straight-to-series at HBO Max in February after having been set up at both Netflix and The CW. “The Girls on the Bus” is inspired by a chapter in Amy Chozick’s book “Chasing Hillary.” It is described as a comedic character-driven drama that chronicles four female journalists who follow every move of a parade of flawed presidential candidates, while finding friendship, love, and scandal along the way.

Scott Foley (The Big Leap) has been tapped for a key recurring role opposite Melissa Benoist in The Girls On The Bus, HBO Max’s political drama series from Warner Bros. TV.