2023'S PROBLEMS AND PEEVES ARE BID A SYMBOLIC FAREWELL AT PRE-NEW YEAR'S TIMES SQUARE EVENT

NEW YORK (AP) — People hoping to leave problems and bad memories behind with the waning year have converged on Times Square for “Good Riddance Day.” It's a promotional pre-New Year’s Eve event that offers the public a chance to, at least symbolically, throw out burdens and peeves. On Thursday, people wrote down things they hoped to leave behind, and a magician set the papers ablaze with a grill li…