Savannah Guthrie and mother Nancy Guthrie on Thursday, June 15, 2023. (Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — The urgent search for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, has entered its fifth day, as her children continue to plead for her safe return.
Nancy Guthrie is believed to have been abducted in her sleep from her Arizona home early Sunday, authorities said. No suspect or person of interest has been identified in the case, and authorities do not know where she is or whether she was targeted, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has said.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is set to hold a briefing on the case at 1 p.m. ET on Thursday.
Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen at her home in the Catalina Foothills area, north of Tucson, on Saturday night, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. Her family reported her missing on Sunday around noon local time after she failed to show up to church, authorities said.
Savannah Guthrie and her siblings made an emotional plea for their mother’s return in a video message posted to social media on Wednesday.
“Everyone is looking for you, Mommy, everywhere,” Savannah Guthrie said in the video message. “We will not rest. Your children will not rest until we are together again.”
Nancy Guthrie is described as having some physical ailments and limited mobility, but does not have cognitive issues, according to the sheriff. She takes medication that if she doesn’t have in 24 hours, “it could be fatal,” Nanos said.
“Our mom is our heart and our home,” Savannah Guthrie said in the video. “She is 84 years old, her health, her heart is fragile. She lives in constant pain. She is without any medicine. She needs it to survive. She needs it not to suffer.”
The FBI is helping in the investigation. The agency is sending additional agents and experts to Pima County to help reinforce efforts on the ground and to aid local investigators, sources told ABC News on Wednesday.
The sheriff’s department said it is reviewing possible ransom notes as part of the investigation. ABC Tucson affiliate KGUN said it received one of the letters, which it forwarded to law enforcement. Officials say they are investigating if any of these letters are legitimate.
Addressing reports of a ransom letter, Savannah Guthrie said Wednesday, “As a family, we are doing everything that we can. We are ready to talk. However, we live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated. We need to know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her. We want to hear from you and we are ready to listen. Please reach out to us.”
Anyone with information is urged to call 911 or the Pima County Sheriff’s Department at 520-351-4900.
(LAS VEGAS) — Multiple people who spent time inside a Las Vegas residence that houses a possible illegal biological lab fell ill, the property’s former cleaning employee told police, according to newly released court documents.
The former cleaning employee, who went by the pseudonym “Kelly,” tipped off authorities to the alleged operation early last month, according to an arrest report for the residence’s property manager filed with the Las Vegas Justice Court following a weekend raid at the home.
Kelly said she had been hired by the property manager, Ori Solomon, to clean the home, which was rented out by the room via websites, including Airbnb, according to the report.
Solomon, also known as Ori Salomon, was arrested over the weekend and faces both state and federal charges, including felony disposal/discharge of hazardous waste in an unauthorized manner and allegedly violating his visa by possessing firearms.
Kelly told police that while working at the house in April 2025, she entered the garage, which was usually locked, and found an assortment of “refrigerators/freezers, glass beakers with reddish liquid inside,” a biological safety cabinet and what she believed to be a centrifuge, according to Solomon’s arrest report.
She said the garage smelled “like a hospital (not like a clean hospital but more of a foul stale stagnant air smell),” the report said.
Kelly said she and Solomon’s handyman both got “‘deathly ill’ after going into the garage,” the report said. “Approximately five days after entering the garage, she was left with breathing issues, fatigue, ‘could not get out of bed,’ and muscle aches.”
The handyman had the “same symptoms,” and he “believed entering the garage was the reason that they both were sick,” the report said. Kelly said Solomon’s own wife also got sick after going into the garage, according to the report.
“Kelly said a lot of people who have lived inside the house have gotten sick. One female ended up in the hospital with severe respiratory issues,” the report said. “Kelly also noted when she was cleaning the house there would be many dead crickets found in the master bedroom,” which was “super uncommon as she had lived in Las Vegas for numerous years and never seen anything like that before.”
Police and FBI agents spent Saturday and Sunday removing equipment and materials from the garage and then transported the substances to a secure lab on the East Coast for testing, the results of which have not yet been released. Authorities have said they believe the Vegas property “is being used to house the biolab equipment” as well as potential viruses and “biological substances,” the police report said.
She told police that the refrigerators that she saw in the garage “were not medical grade ones but ones you would find in a normal home,” the report said.
The report noted that the description matches the “same type of fridge used” in a previous case in Reedley, California. Officials there said an illegal bio lab was discovered in a warehouse that allegedly had unauthorized biological agents, including samples of possible infectious diseases, along with misbranded medical devices and test kits. The alleged operator, a Chinese national, was arrested in 2023 and remains in federal custody awaiting trial. He has pleaded not guilty to his charges.
The report also alleges that Solomon had “direct knowledge of the biolab being owned and operated by” the Reedley bio lab’s operator — and that the pair had been in “constant communication” since his 2023 arrest.
While incarcerated, that previous operator had more than 460 calls with Solomon in the past year alone, the report said. Solomon “is known to execute the business dealings for” the prior operator — and then would transfer funds to the prior operator’s wife and business partner, who had absconded federal indictment in China, according to the report.
Kelly told police she believes Solomon is still in contact with the prior operator because the federal inmate “calls him every day to check on the residences,” the report said.
Kelly allegedly added that if investigators “contacted Ori, he would have the lab moved out of the garage immediately.”
Police said in the report that they believe the property is “being used to house the biolab equipment, viruses, and biological substances.” Four bottles of hydrochloric acid were also found in an “apparently abandoned and open box, stored haphazardly on an open shelf, according to the report.
Hydrochloric acid can “cause substantial permanent injuries to the human body if exposed to the skin, inhaled or ingested,” the report said, alleging that the bottles were not secure or stored “in a way to avoid inadvertent exposure or ingestion.”
“As a result, the failure to properly dispose of these chemicals imperiled the lives of anyone in or near the garage,” the report said. “Moreover, hydrochloric acid is known to be volatile if airborne and can cause respiratory injury if inhaled” — particularly concerning, the report said, since the house was “additionally being used as a short term rental property with multiple occupants, including an elderly male living mere yards away from the entry to that garage.”
Three people who rented a room in the house were safely removed from the residence and are not involved in the investigation at this time, authorities previously said.
When Zach Top walked away with the best traditional country album trophy at Sunday’s Grammys, it was the fulfillment of the vision he’d had with the record’s title.
“I wanna be making these records that people love for the next 40 years, hopefully,” he told ABC Audio at November’s CMA Awards. “My idea is it’s not gonna be a flash in the pan and that’s kind of, you know, a little bit of the mission statement of the title of that album, too, I Ain’t in It for My Health. It’s not a one-hit wonder thing, I’m around to stay.”
Next up, Zach gets back to the things he hasn’t been able to do since the release of Cold Beer & Country Music in April 2024.
“I haven’t hardly written the last two years just being so busy on the road,” he says, “so it’ll be fun to kind of start hopefully writing another pile of hits and be ready for a third record whenever that comes around.”
“We’ll be busy on the road again,” he adds, “getting our first taste of headlining a bunch of the bigger festivals. Not too many daylight sets for us anymore, so that’ll be kind of fun.”
After a Thursday show in Scottsdale, Arizona, Zach sets out on a European tour Feb. 21.
Several artists saw an added bonus following the 2026 Grammys, when streams of their songs experienced major boosts tied to their award wins.
As Billboard reports, best new artist winner Olivia Dean‘s entire discography scored gains following the telecast, with a 65% increase in streams. The biggest gain was for her song “Man I Need,” which she performed on the show: It experienced a 67% gain in streams and a 550% increase in digital song sales.
Billboard speculates that this might be enough to push the song to the top of the Hot 100 next week; it previously peaked at #2.
Billie Eilish was the surprise song of the year winner for “Wildflower,” marking her third victory in that category. The day after the Grammys, the song saw a 127% increase in streams.
Another surprise winner, Lola Young, experienced a significant boost as well. Streams of her hit “Messy” jumped 113%, while her entire catalog experienced a 108% surge, and digital downloads increased by nearly 1,580%. Lola won best solo pop vocal performance for “Messy,” which she also performed during the broadcast.
Bad Bunny and Kendrick Lamar did quite well too. After Bad Bunny won the album of the year trophy, his song “DtMF” experienced a 273% boost in streams, and his catalog streams increased by 117%. Meanwhile, Kendrick’s hit “luther,” which won record of the year, saw an 83% surge in streams.
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DaBaby has followed the release of Be More Grateful with the announcement of a tour in support of the album.
According to press release, the trek “is built to give day-one supporters a closer connection to DaBaby and the new material.” Fans can also expect performances from supporting acts Zeddy Will, H3adband and Bri3.
The Be More Grateful tour will kick off at the House of Blues venue in Houston on March 29, with following shows scheduled in Dallas, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The trek will also hit New York, Detroit, Chicago and other cites before wrapping up in Los Angeles on May 14.
Live Nation and Ticketmaster presales for the tour are underway, with the Spotify presale beginning Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
Nikki Sixx and Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe perform at GIANTS Stadium on November 11, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. (Don Arnold/WireImage)
Mötley Crüe will be celebrating America’s birthday up north in Canada.
The “Home Sweet Home” rockers will headline Winnipeg’s Rockin’ Thunder concert series on July 4. The bill will also include Three Days Grace, Halestorm and Canadian musician JJ Wilde.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. CT. For all ticket info, visit Motley.com.
Mötley will return to the U.S. later in July to launch the Return of Carnival of Sins tour celebrating the band’s 45th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of their 2005-06 Carnival of Sins tour.
‘Tenterhooks’ album artwork. (New Machine Recordings)
The Silversun Pickups‘ new album, Tenterhooks, is out Friday. It marks their third collaboration with Garbage drummer and Nevermind producer Butch Vig.
“The new album’s great,” Vig tells ABC Audio of Tenterhooks. “Some very powerful songs on it.”
Vig adds that he feels Tenterhooks “has a quite eclectic feel to it.”
“Yet it still sounds like Silversun Pickups,” Vig continues. “They have something in their DNA, the way they play together and [frontman] Brian [Aubert]’s guitar playing and his singing, and the way he and [bassist] Nikki [Monninger] sing, ’cause Brian can sing really high, as can Nikki, and sometimes, their voices, you can’t even really tell who’s singing what.”
Vig also produced the last two SSPU albums, 2022’s Physical Thrills and 2019’s Widow’s Weeds, making them his most frequent collaborator outside of Garbage in recent years.
“I love how they approach their music,” Vig says of the Pickups. “We don’t do demos and rehearse, we just start recording and see what happens.”
Silversun Pickups will play an album release show in Los Angeles on Friday, which will stream live on Veeps. They’ll launch a full U.S. tour Feb. 19 in Santa Ana, California.
Cover of ‘R.E.M. at the BBC’ box set (Craft Recordings)
R.E.M. fans will once again be able to get their hands on the band’s 2018 live album box set R.E.M. at the BBC.
The band announced on Instagram that the box set is “Back by demand” and will be available again starting March 6.
The eight-CD/one-DVD set features rare live and in-studio recordings taken from the BBC archives, with all the performances recorded between 1984 and 2008.
The compilation includes a 60-minute Later … with Jools Holland performance, plus performances from Radio 1’s Live Lounge and John Peel Studio Sessions. There are also recordings of several live U.K. broadcasts, including R.E.M.’s 1999 set at the Glastonbury Festival, a 2004 show at St. James’s Church in London and a 1995 broadcast from Milton Keynes.
The set features performances of such R.E.M. classics as “Losing My Religion,” “Man on the Moon,” “Radio Free Europe,” “Drive,” “Everybody Hurts” and “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).”
The set also includes a DVD with the short film Accelerating Backwards and the Later … with Jools Holland performance, plus three bonus videos: “I’ve Been High,” “Nightswimming” and “Bad Day.”
Cobie Smulders and Jason Segel in ‘Shrinking’ season 3. (Apple TV)
Jason Segel worked with Cobie Smulders for nine years on How I Met Your Mother. Now, the pair star together in season 3 of the Apple TV comedy Shrinking. Smulders made her season 3 debut in Wednesday’s episode, where her character, Sofi, shared flirtatious banter with Segel’s Jimmy.
Segel spoke to ABC Audio about how working with Smulders on Shrinking is both the same and different to working with her on How I Met Your Mother, where they played friends Marshall and Robin.
“The way it is the same is that Cobie Smulders is like the nicest human being on Earth. And not just cause she’s Canadian. She is just like to the core, a wonderful human being,” Segel said. “We didn’t have much overlap on How I Met Your Mother despite working together for almost a decade because our storylines were always — Marshall was usually paired with Lily.”
Segel said that what’s special about doing Shrinking with Smulders now is that they have shared history.
“We’ve known each other for 20 years, 25 years, maybe something like that. Both been through a bunch of life stuff and the twisty-turny road that being in this business is about … and we’ve stayed in touch that whole time,” Segel said.
This, Segel said, helps the audience feel that Jimmy and Sofi have a real connection.
“I think when these two characters look at each other, it seems like they’ve known each other forever. Even though story-wise, they’ve only known each for a little bit,” Segel said. “It reads like soulmate because of that. That’s sort of like what a soulmate is supposed to feel like. Like, you’ve only just met, but you’ve known other forever. So I think that that was the magic trick of the casting.”
New episodes of Shrinking release every Wednesday on Apple TV.
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