NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh off her breakthrough role in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” Rachel Zegler will star in Lionsgate’s planned “Hunger Games” prequel. The studio announced Tuesday that Zegler will play Lucy Gray Baird in “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” an extension of the “Hunger Games” saga that takes place decades before the adventures of Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jada Pinkett Smith turned her husband’s Oscarnight blowup into a teachable moment about alopecia areata, the hair-loss disorder affecting her and millions of others that, in some cases, can impact a person’s sense of identity.
WASHINGTON — As the average gas price in Oklahoma has soared to record highs, the state’s junior senator has joined fellow Republicans in challenging the White House for its response to the energy crisis.
The Ardmore Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution honored three businesses/ organizations for proper display and retirement of the American flag. Recently, President Clint Holt, Dr. Joe Hamill and Tom Hayes presented certificates to Admiral Wesley Hull, of the Greater Southwest Historical Museum, Brian Douglas, of Harvey-Douglas Funeral Home, and Amy Sprouse, of the Ardmore Veterans Center.
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are retired. A short while ago, a young couple moved in across the street. A few months later, my husband, who does yardwork for neighbors for extra money, started working in theirs. He never charged them for it, and even after they had the equipment to care for their yard, continued working there some of the time.
John Grisham is back, sort of. Fans waiting for his next full-length legal thriller will have to wait until the fall, but “Sparring Partners” serves up three novellas, the longest of which is 125 pages. They’re all about some aspect of the law — the people who practice it or the people who run afoul of it, writes Associated Press reviewer Rob Merrill. A favorite of the trio is “Strawberry Moon,” which introduces an inmate on the day he is scheduled to be executed. Grisham himself is an outspoken critic of the death penalty, but the story doesn’t take a strong stand.
SHANGHAI (AP) — Shanghai authorities say they will take major steps Wednesday toward reopening China’s largest city after a twomonth COVID-19 lockdown that has set back the national economy and largely confined millions of people to their homes.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida house where Lynyrd Skynyrd rock legends Ronnie, Donnie and Johnny Van Zant grew up is on the market for $629,000.
Anita Harp enjoys watching the busy lives of purple martins, but the view this May has been unlike any other. Consecutive days of unseasonably cool, wet weather in the 40s and 50s grounded flying insects.
Back to Oregon with Nancy Buley and the J Frank Schmidt and Son Tree Company (JFS). Nancy explained experimental trees never go to market. They are first chosen for their unique traits including diversity of genes, adaptability to climate change, resiliency in tough urban environments, resistance to diseases and pests, easy care and profitability. These trees are grown in test blocks for potential introduction later. Trees may be cultivars, nativars and natives.