Paul McCartneyPhoto credit: Wikimedia Commons Thirty years after Sir Paul McCartney helped open the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) in a former Liverpool school, the institution has reached a milestone that blends history with a new beginning. At its 2026 graduation ceremony, LIPA conferred its first LIPA degrees and celebrated more than 400 graduating…

Mihaly returned to his castle project, planning an event venue and vineyard on the property. What began as a quiet plan for a simple retreat in the North Carolina woods eventually became something far more ambitious. On 14 acres in Rougemont, Person County, sculptor Robert Mihaly started building himself a small cabin in 2000. More…

A Maryland appeals court has ordered a new trial in a major legal dispute between three sisters over their late father’s $3.2 million trust fund. The court found that trial judges had wrongly blocked important handwriting evidence from being presented. In an opinion issued in October 2026, the Appellate Court of Maryland overturned an earlier…

Representative Image (AI-generated) A handwritten will can offer a simple way to distribute property after death, but who actually writes its contents can determine whether it is legally valid. In Nebraska, a dispute over a two-page handwritten document has ended with the state Supreme Court ruling that a man’s signature was not enough to make…

File photo: This screenshot made on a smartphone shows a series of false alerts received late Sunday, Residents of Ukraine and Russia received fake emergency warnings through government-run mobile apps after the systems were hacked, authorities in both countries said. In Ukraine, some messages falsely warned of an imminent nuclear threat, while others claimed there…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer indicted for allegedly running over an immigrant with his vehicle during an enforcement operation in Houston, Texas, surrendered to authorities on Monday.Mario Alberto Morales appeared before the Harris County 488th District Court after a grand jury indicted him on a second-degree aggravated assault charge…

US President Donald Trump The Trump administration has asked the US Supreme Court to intervene in a dispute over approximately 20,000 mail ballots in California, arguing that votes cast by people suspected of not being US citizens should be kept aside until their eligibility can be verified.The emergency appeal was filed on Monday, a day…