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No booze, no cover, no judging: Inside Mexico City’s free dance parties

MEXICO CITY (AP) — It's 4 p.m. on a recent Sunday afternoon, and a pavilion of towering windows in a Mexico City urban park is nearly packed. The public is diverse, but everyone here wants the same thing: to dance freely, at no cost, without harassment or prejudice. Twenty-somethings, children with their mothers, teenagers and elderly couples gather around the disc jockey's console. A murmur fills the air as roughly 300 people await the start. The first notes then pierce the air and a shiver runs through the crowd. "This is an open invitation for everyone to move as they wish in a ...

U.S. still won’t say whether it will return mistakenly deported man, despite Supreme Court decision

(AP) — The Trump administration is doubling down on its decision not to tell a federal court whether it has any plans to repatriate a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month and remains confined in a notorious prison in El Salvador, despite a Supreme Court ruling and lower court order that the man should be returned to the United States. The U.S. district court judge handling the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia now is weighing whether to grant a request from the man’s legal team to compel the government to explain why it should not be held in contempt. Any move toward a ...

Martins Ferry’s Best headed to Bethany to play basketball

MARTINS FERRY — Lindsey Best really didn’t have much self-confidence on the basketball court until her junior season at Martins Ferry. That’s when she became sort of a ‘den mother’ to a really good freshmen class. “It gave me a lot of confidence being the oldest player on the ...

Kentucky watches for surging rivers to recede so widespread cleanup can begin

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — After days of deluges overfilled rivers to near-record levels across Kentucky, residents were anxious Tuesday to return to their flooded homes and assess what’s salvageable, even as stubbornly high waters kept some of them waiting even longer. Susan Williams returned to her rural Franklin County home with her four dogs and three cats. She left Sunday while the waters kept rising. Now, her house and a neighbor’s looked like they were on an island in brown waters. Williams and some friends loaded her animals onto a small boat and paddled back and forth, ...

CRAIG BURLEY

It’s with heavy heart that we must announce the passing of a native of the Ohio Valley in Clearwater, Fl. Craig “Pic” Burley after a lengthy battle with Dementia. He was born April 13, 1945, in Wheeling, a son of the late Kenny and Eleanor Burley. “Pic’s a proud graduate of Bridgeport High School Class of 1963. Pic is survived by Charlyn Renolds Burley and his son Keb (Kaylie) Burley, and their children Kade and Brynlie and Kris (Raul) Dam and their son Braden. He is also survived by his brother Mark (Bae) Burley and their family. According to Craig’s wishes there ...