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Rip Taylor talks with reporters before a film premiere in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, in 2002. Taylor, the mustachioed comedian with a fondness for confetti-throwing who became a television game show mainstay in the 1970s, died Sunday.

Rip Taylor, Comedian Known For His Camp And Confetti, Dies At 88

Taylor was a mainstay of 1970s television game shows and variety programs, such as Match Game and The Hollywood Squares. One of his best-known gags was to throw confetti at the audience.

The Contemporary Arts Center was one of 39 projection mapping locations during Blink 2019.

As Blink Grew, So Did The Crowds

Updated: Oct. 16, 4:47 p.m. The second Blink festival was bigger than the first, expanding into Kentucky with more murals, and more projection mapping....

Typhoon Hagibus Leaves A Trail Of Death And Destruction In Japan

A powerful typhoon ravaged Japan on Saturday, bursting river banks and flooding low-lying areas and killing more than a dozen people. The typhoon has been downgraded to a tropical storm.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with 1,500 self-funded health plans, sued Sutter Health for antitrust violations. The closely watched case, which many expected to set precedents nationwide, ended in a settlement Wednesday. Above, Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, Calif.

Hospital Giant Sutter Health Agrees To Settlement In Big Antitrust Fight

Health care costs in Northern California, where Sutter Health dominates, are 20% to 30% higher than in Southern California, even after adjusting for cost of living. Settlement terms aren't yet public.

An information board announces the cancellation of all practice and qualifying sessions scheduled for Saturday for the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix because of the approach of Typhoon Hagibis, at Suzuka Circuit in central Japan, on Friday.

Super Typhoon Hagibis Could Be Strongest In Decades To Hit Tokyo

The typhoon could make landfall on the main Japanese island of Honshu on Saturday, hitting the capital with up to 2 feet of rain, storm surge and winds up to 135 mph.

Voters In Arizona Watched Presidential Debate With Anticipation

Democrats filled a movie theater in Maricopa County. The state elected a Democrat to the Senate last year, raising hopes to make it competitive in 2020.

Brittany Howard Announces 1st Solo Album, Shares 'History Repeats'

The Alabama Shakes singer will release Jaimelater this summer. The first single, "History Repeats,"is a punch-drunk and funk rumination on humanity's inevitable arc toward self-defeat.

The entrance to Energy Harbor's Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio.

Ohio Energy Deal Spares Davis-Besse Plant And, For Now, Local Schools

The passage of HB 6 this week not only gave Ohio’s two FirstEnergy Solutions nuclear plants a $150 million subsidy to remain open, it also keeps the…

Algae floats in the water at the Maumee Bay State Park marina in Lake Erie in Oregon, Ohio, on Sept. 15, 2017.

Another Huge Algae Bloom Expected On Lake Erie This Summer

Heavy rains that inundated the Great Lakes region this spring will fuel another massive algae bloom across parts of western Lake Erie later this summer,…

People pass a store in Beijing on Monday. The government's figures show that China's pace of economic growth in the second quarter was at its slowest in nearly three decades.

China's Economy Falters; Slowest Growth In Nearly 3 Decades

The pace of growth in the second quarter was its slowest since 1992. The National Bureau of Statistics attributed the change to a complicated international environment.

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