(AP) — Johnson & Johnson is splitting into two companies, separating the division that sells Band-Aids and Listerine from its medical device and prescription drug business. The company said Friday that the division selling prescription drugs and medical devices will keep the Johnson & Johnson name. The new consumer health company will house brands including Neutrogena, Aveeno, Tylenol, Listerine, Johnson’s,…
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The drummer and a co-founder of The Moody Blues has died. His bandmates report Graeme Edge is dead at age 80. The group’s website didn’t provide a cause of death. Justin Hayward, the band’s frontman says Edge was the backbone of the British rock band, which was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame…
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A little girl who lost a teddy bear she’d had since being adopted from an Ethiopian orphanage thought it was gone forever when she forgot it along a trail in Glacier National Park last year. But thanks to a social media plea, the sharp eyes and soft heart of a park ranger and the closure of…
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An 89-year-old man in Rhode Island has earned his Ph.D. and became a physicist after working toward it for two decades and thinking about it for a lifetime. Manfred Steiner recently successfully defended his dissertation at Brown University in Providence. Steiner cherishes the degree because it’s what he always wanted and he overcame health issues…
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Clashes inside Ecuador’s largest prison have left at least 52 inmates dead in the latest violence to hit the Litoral Penitentiary, which recently saw what authorities said was the country’s worst ever prison bloodbath. Residents living near the prison in the coastal city of Guayaquil had reported hearing hours of sustained gunfire and explosions coming from…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In 1972, Big Bird lined up on `Sesame Street’ to receive a measles vaccine as part of a campaign to get more youngsters inoculated against the disease. However, when that same iconic 8-foot-tall children’s character tweeted last weekend he had been vaccinated against COVID-19, conservative politicians immediately pushed back, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz who grilled…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Prosecutors are supporting a push by the Tennessee Innocence Project to reopen a post-conviction appeal for two people in the rape and slaying of a 4-year-old child more than 30 years ago. The Tennessean reports attorneys from the Tennessee Innocence Project filed a motion Wednesday asking a Nashville judge to reopen the case of Joyce Watkins…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The University of Tennessee system is proposing a break that would let military veterans attend its campuses at the discounted in-state tuition rate. The university says the board has shown support for President Randy Boyd’s proposal and a request for approval from state lawmakers to make the change possible across the university’s system. If it’s approved,…
This week’s Pet of the Week from Saving the Animals Together is Hank. Hank is a very sweet and loving boy. He is around 4-years-old and weighs about 90 lbs. Hank is always willing to learn new things. He is a playful and energetic boy who likes to cuddle when all of the fun is done. He is good with…
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