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Box Office Results Muted Without ‘Dune: Part Two’

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The North American box office had one of its slowest weekends of the year, due in large part to “Dune: Part Two’s” absence from the lineup. Moviegoers had many other options to choose from. The video game adaptation “Five Nights at Freddy’s” repeated its first-place ranking, followed by “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” still going strong. Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla “ expanded nationwide and “Oppenheimer” returned to IMAX screens. Several well-received indies opened as well. But this was the weekend that Warner Bros. and ...

DeNiro’s Ex-Assistant Says She Found His Behavior ‘Creepy’

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert De Niro’s former top executive assistant said she found it “creepy” when the actor insisted she scratch his back, an example of behavior she found controlling and abusive before she quit her job in 2019, she testified Friday at a New York civil trial. In a full day of testimony, Graham Chase Robinson became emotional several times as she claimed that the trauma she endured before she quit working for De Niro in 2019 after 11 years has left her jobless and depressed. “I was having an emotional and mental breakdown. I wasn’t eating. I wasn’t ...

Ohio State Rallies To Defeat Rutgers, 35-16

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — No. 3 Ohio State has been finding ways to win the close ones all season, and they added another one against a team they have traditionally blown out. Cornerback Jordan Hancock woke up the Buckeyes early in the second half with a 93-yard interception return for a touchdown and Ryan Day’s team rallied from its first halftime deficit of the season to beat vastly improved Rutgers 35-16 Saturday. “We were not worried. we have been a second-half team all year,” said Ohio State wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr., who caught two of Kyle McCord’s three ...

Park Falls One Win Short Of State Tourney

By KIM NORTH Staff Writer WELLSBURG — Wheeling Park came up a win short of qualifying for the W.Va. Class AAA state volleyball tournament next week inside the Charleston Civic Center Coliseum. The Patriots (19-12-1), the Region I, Section I runner up, fell to Region I, Section II kingpin Bridgeport (40-8-7) in four sets Saturday morning during the Region I semifinals at Brooke High School. The scores were 25-14, 18-25, 25-13 and 25-21. “I thought the girls fought really hard. I was happy with the effort we gave,” Wheeling Park head coach Samantha Gentle said. “We executed ...

Mountaineers Turn Back Clock In 37-7 Win Over BYU

By BOB HERTZEL WV News MORGANTOWN — We all turned the clock back at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, just a few hours after West Virginia turned the clock back at Mountaineer Field while beating up on a defenseless BYU team, 37-7, to clinch a bowl bid. All of a sudden, it was 2007 again and maybe they were running 66 points on a No. 20 team from Connecticut, gouging them for 517 rushing yards and seven ground touchdowns. Didn’t matter who got the ball, Pat White, Noel Devine, Steve Slaton, Jock Sanders or backup quarterback Jarrett Brown; Sanders averaging 19.3 yards on his three ...

Diagnosis Fills Wife’s Head With Doubts

DEAR ABBY: I have recently been diagnosed with a chronic illness. I am only 40, and I always took for granted that I had plenty of life left to live. I’m happily married, but I worry because my husband, “Al,” has become my caretaker. I feel terrible about it. My condition is very limiting. I’m in pain all the time and may have to stop working completely. I have developed depression and often cry at home. I feel so guilty, as if I have ruined his life. Al swears he just wants to be with me no matter what we have to go through. I’m just not sure I can handle holding him back ...