(AP) – Football and other forms of televised competition – the season finales of some popular reality shows – dominated the Nielsen company's weekly list of the most popular shows on television.
Nance Elementary School first-graders, from left, Addyson McPhail, Cadence Aston and Aubree Thompson dance to Christmas tunes at the Nance Christmas Sing-Along.
(AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been authorized to start cleaning up construction sites and close small gaps in the southern border wall nearly a year after President Joe Biden took office and ordered building to stop. Homeland Security
Halley Stockton and Teriana King perform during the Southwest Elementary School Christmas program.
(AP) – A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
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The Clinton High School band went around playing Christmas carols for others, including one of the Clinton Public Schools nurses Sheffield Southall and Nance Principal Janalyn Taylor. From left are Southall, Rebekah Campbell, Connor Villalpando, Ciara Mathews, Charles Nieves, Grayson McCullough, Carly Purser, Israel Villanueva and Taylor. In front is Nicholas Walters.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — “Home Alone” actor Devin Ratray surrendered to authorities in Oklahoma on Wednesday after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend, police said.
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma sixth-grader was honored by law enforcement and school officials for his heroic actions not just once, but twice in the same day.
(AP) – When Westminster United Methodist Church in Houston resumed in-person services late last year, after a seven-month halt due to COVID-19, there were Sundays when only three worshippers showed up, according to the pastor, Meredith Mills.