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It haunts him. The face, its expression blank. No sign of anger, no flicker of excitement or worry. A numbness. The right arm is extended toward him, lining up a target for the gun in hand.

George Oliphant, host of home renovation show “George to the Rescue,” received a letter from three sisters seeking help for their dad, whose Parkinson’s diagnosis was making it difficult for him to live at home. Their dad, Joe Honerkamp, was experiencing mobility issues and was unable to do many daily tasks on his own, his daughters said. He was forced...

Jeremy Kappell, who was fired as chief meteorologist at NBC affiliate WHEC in Rochester, said he made what sounded like a racial slur on accident by tripping on his words and never got the chance to publicly apologize before he was let go over the weekend. Kappell has since taken to Facebook to apologize. Kappell told NBC’s “Today” show Wednesday...

Sheriff’s investigators have begun the agonizing task of scouring through the wreckage of California’s most destructive fire on record in search of the dead. By Saturday, the death toll had reached 23, but it seemed likely to climb. With the entire town of Paradise wiped out and the fire still raging furiously in surrounding communities, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea...

Pieces of hurricane evacuee Melody Rawson’s South Carolina life are now spread out on a grassy field, a slab of concrete and a picnic table at a campground outside Atlanta Motor Speedway. They include two dogs, a cockatoo in its cage, a couple of coolers with sandwich meat and the mangled remains of a tire that blew out at midnight...

Creators of “The Simpsons” have the freedom to handle the show’s depiction of Indian shop owner Apu in the right way for their show, a top Fox executive said.

Creators of “The Simpsons” have the freedom to handle the show’s depiction of Indian shop owner Apu in the right way for their show, a top Fox executive said Thursday. Apu, the Kwik-E-Mart clerk who has sold expired food and ripped off customers in the long-running animated Fox series, has come under fire as racist and stereotypical. The criticism flared...

Hank Azaria said Tuesday he is “willing to step aside” from voicing the character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on “The Simpsons,” during an appearance on Stephen Colbert’s “The late Show.” His animated character, a Kwik-E-Mart owner introduced in the 1990s, was recently the subject of Hari Kondabolu’s TruTV documentary, “The Problem With Apu,” which argued Apu perpetuates a harmful stereotype of South...

“The Simpsons” briefly addressed Sunday criticism of its portrayal of its Indian shop owner, Apu. But a comedian who helped spark a conversation about the character calls the show’s response “sad” and attacked the show on Twitter for reducing a discussion about racism to political correctness.

A Georgia teacher accused of firing a handgun in his classroom had three rifles taken away after setting the family car ablaze two years ago, according to a sheriff’s report obtained Friday by The Associated Press. Deputies said they brought social studies teacher Jesse Randal Davidson to a hospital for a mental evaluation and seized the rifles for safe-keeping after...

An Oklahoma prosecutor said Saturday that he was shocked when a judge declared a mistrial in the case of a white former Tulsa police officer who fatally shot his daughter’s black boyfriend because jurors had deliberated for only a few hours. It was the third mistrial in nine months for former Tulsa police officer Shannon Kepler, and all of the...

One lucky man heard the news of his life on a flight home from Las Vegas a few weeks ago.

A man received a big surprise as he was returning home from a trip to Las Vegas from his wife. He’s going to be a father!

Matt Groening’s cartoon creations meet Sunday in a crossover that’s as long overdue as a delivery from Planet Express.