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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND USE MAY 25-26 - FILE - In this Wednesday, March 27, 2013 file photo Dave Livingston, left, removes his gloves while standing near a portion of the Cliff Walk, in Newport, R.I.  Large portions of the Cliff Walk damaged by Superstorm Sandy has yet to be repaired as the summer tourist season approaches. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Famed RI Cliff Walk still partly closed post-Sandy

Newport's Cliff Walk, which runs between the Atlantic Ocean and some of the city's most stunning Gilded Age mansions, sustained what has been estimated at up to $8 million in damage during Superstorm Sandy. Some walkways were washed away or caved in. In other areas, huge boulders were moved by ...

3-car crash kills 1, injures 2 others in Weston

One person is dead and two others injured after three cars crashed on a ramp leading from the Massachusetts Turnpike to Route 95 in Weston. State Police Lt. Daniel Richard says the crash occurred Saturday afternoon, trapping one person in one of the vehicles with life-threatening injuries. He announced later ...

NC art exhibit pays tribute to teen shot, killed

In one black-and-white image, a teenager in a hoodie stands on a field, hand outstretched, gripping a football. In another picture, seven students lie in the grass, eyes closed, using their bodies to spell out the initials "K'' and "C." Another image features torn up chunks of asphalt. A poster ...

Museum hopes 'Star Wars' exhibit draws thousands

The force is with the Indiana State Museum. The Indianapolis Star reports (http://indy.st/162KUja ) an exhibition called "Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination" opened at the museum this weekend. The exhibit lets visitors sit in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon Interactive Experience and includes a short film narrated by ...

Museum hopes 'Star Wars' exhibit draws thousands

Sit in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon Interactive Experience, perhaps in a front seat usually reserved for Han Solo or Chewbacca, and you won't be thrown into a deep space dogfight with Imperial TIE fighters. Instead of fantastic battle, fact-based exploration is the theme. Anthony Daniels — voice of ...

A tourist takes a photo at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas on Friday, May 24, 2013. For the past six months, visitors have had to squint up at the hulking metal forms through the desert sun. On Friday, the museum unveiled nighttime hours. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Museum starts night tours of signs from Vegas past

The junked signs that attracted throngs to old Las Vegas have for years gathered dust in a neon boneyard just a few miles from the sleek mega-casinos on the Strip. This Memorial Day weekend, the hulking metal come-ons are once again glinting and shimmering at night. The Neon Museum, where ...

Park service review Brown Foundation report

The National Park Service is reviewing a report that could lead to penalties being levied against a foundation led by the daughter of the lead plaintiff in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case. The Department of the Interior's Office of Inspector General conducted the review after ...

In this undated photo, Cape Water Taxi owner David Green, left, prepares the boat for a launch out of Lewes, Del. The Cape Water Taxi is returning for a second season along the canal, and with that comes expanded offerings. The service will operate on a limited Friday through Sunday spring schedule, before expanding to seven days a week on June 14. (AP Photo/The Daily Times, Jon Bleiweis)

All aboard Del. water taxi

The Cape Water Taxi is returning for a second season along the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal, and with that comes expanded offerings. The service was to make its 2013 debut May 24, operating on a limited Friday-Sunday spring schedule, before expanding to seven days a week June 14. New for 2013 is ...

This Friday, May 10, 2013 photo shows the ten commandments written on one of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem. Nearly 70 years after the discovery of the world's oldest biblical manuscripts, the Palestinian family who originally sold them to scholars and institutions is now quietly marketing the leftovers - fragments the family says it has kept in a Swiss safe deposit box all these years. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Fragments of biblical treasure are up for sale

Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are up for sale — in tiny pieces. Nearly 70 years after the discovery of the world's oldest biblical manuscripts, the Palestinian family who originally sold them to scholars and institutions is now quietly marketing the leftovers — fragments the family says it has ...

Adoption fabrics on exhibit at Va.'s Williamsburg

When poverty or social mores forced a woman to abandon her infant at London's Foundling Hospital during the mid-18th century, a piece of fabric left with the child signaled the mother's intention to reclaim her baby. Among the thousands who left fabric pieces, few were able to return for their ...

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