Your daily look at nonvirus stories in the news:

1. NEW PROSECUTOR ON AHMAUD ARBERY CASE Georgia’s attorney general has appointed an Atlanta-area district attorney to oversee an investigation into the killing of a black man said to have died at the hands of two white men as he was jogging through a neighborhood.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Connie Francis' decades-long career was marked by all the glittering things of Hollywood royalty. There were No. 1 hit songs, iconic movies, Hollywood boyfriends, glamorous gowns and TV appearances on "American Bandstand" and "The Ed Sullivan Show." Despite it all, she considers her personal life a bust.

"For as much success as I had professionally, personally I'm a failure," said Francis.

NEW YORK (AP) — There's no denying: The age of TV variety that found viewers flocking week after week to the likes of "Ed Sullivan" and "Carol Burnett" is long over.

But insistent reports of variety's death have been exaggerated. The latest evidence: "Maya & Marty" .