Month: February 2022

VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — A former European Union health commissioner has pleaded innocent in a Maltese courtroom to charges of bribery and influence trading bribery charges. John Dalli, who is Maltese, served in the commission post from 2010 to 2012. The case in Malta is a probe of an alleged attempt by one of his

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press A composer, professor and pioneer in electronic and electro-acoustic music, who helped develop the Synclavier (SIN-clah-veer), an early digital synthesizer, has died. Jon Appleton died Jan. 30 in White River Junction, Vt., at the age of 83, according to his son. Appleton became part of the faculty at Dartmouth College

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ally Sheedy is best known to audiences for “The Breakfast Club” and “St. Elmo’s Fire,” but she’s also appeared in indie films and in TV shows over the years. She’s back on TV now in Freeform’s dark comedy series “Single Drunk Female,” playing mom to

LONDON (AP) — Novels by Damon Galgut and Colm Toibin are among eight books contending for Britain’s Rathbones Folio Prize for literature. Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning South African story “The Promise” and Toibin’s novel about Thomas Mann, “The Magician,” are on the shortlist announced Wednesday for the 30,000 pound ($41,000) prize, open to both fiction and