AMATEUR RADIO ‘FIELD DAY’—Members of the Bristol Amateur Radio Club (VA/TN) and the Mountain Empire Amateur Radio Society (Smyth and Washington Counties, VA) will be participating in the national amateur radio Field Day exercise, Saturday, June 24, at 2 p.m. and Sunday, June 25, at 2 p.m. at White Top...
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Fremont City Council President Mark Jensen is shown in this screenshot pulled from a video taken on May 18 inside Big Red Keno. This image shows Jensen moments before he appears to cash in a winning keno ticket. Courtesy Image Fremont City Council President Mark Jensen says complaints filed against...
A former Ripon woman was convicted of first degree reckless homicide as a party to a crime, as well as eight other felonies today (Friday) in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court. Carla Endeward Carla M. Endeward, 55, was found guilty by a 12-person jury on all charges stemming from...
WINCHESTER – The first female sergeant in the Winchester Police Department’s history, Kathryn DiPerna was recently appointed as such and is very excited to take on this new role. Sergeant DiPerna grew up in Winchester and currently lives in the area with her husband and children. She has always loved...
Talented young musicians from across the world are in Sewanee now through July 16 for the 66th season of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival featuring more than 30 performances of symphonic, chamber and vocal music. Many of the concerts are free. To reserve tickets to one of their paid performances,...
Beebout Spotsylvania jurors began hearing evidence Wednesday that will help them decide whether to believe a Ruther Glen man’s claim that he was acting in self-defense when he killed 35-year-old Shawn Hastings last year outside a Spotsylvania restaurant. Jesse Dean Beebout, 35, is charged with multiple offenses, including first-degree murder,...
At a Métis gathering, lively strains of fiddle music and the smell of rubaboo porridge and bannock fill the air, rising above laughter and singing. These hallmarks of Métis culture, which include a strong sense of independence and self-reliance, have been cultivated over centuries, resulting in a people that has...
Tina McMenamin, an 18-year-old UNL freshman, was stabbed and sexually assaulted in her apartment on July 25, 1995. Gregory Gabel, a mentally ill Lincoln man, was arrested in the homicide and has always been the prime suspect, an investigator said, even after pivotal DNA evidence failed to link him to...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Gov. Mike Parson could soon make Missouri one of the first states to establish 50/50 shared parenting time as the standard in child custody cases. But the bill on his desk, passed in the final hour of the legislative session, did not include changes that some...
Question: Of the thousands of words in the English language, only three English words, according to Webster, begin with the letters “dw,” a number bumped up to at least four if you include proper nouns and names, and specifically one Central Illinois town. Can you name the dw- words? Answer:...