ZEELAND, Mich. (WOOD) — A West Michigan World War II veteran celebrated his 100th birthday on Friday. News 8 first told you the story of Dewey Ferman back in November. On Friday, while walking through the double doors leading to his birthday surprise, he was greeted with a bosun’s whistle to kick off 100 years. […]
Willie Mullins reached the magical 100-winner mark at the Cheltenham Festival as the Patrick Mullins-ridden Jasmin De Vaux provided him with a 13th victory in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper. It is 29 years since the master of Closutton broke his Festival duck with Tourist Attraction in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle. Twelve months later he trained […]
Danny Care was presented with his national academy report in anticipation of his 100th cap and the England scrum-half jokes that the assessment made two decades ago is still accurate now. Care will become the sixth England men’s Test centurion if he steps off the bench in Saturday’s Six Nations match against Ireland with his […]
Henry Wuga is a refugee based in Glasgow, who has just turned 100 years old. In May 1939, as pre-war tensions were rising in his home country of Germany, he escaped to Scotland via a child safety mission known as the Kindertransport. By the time World War II began, he was in Glasgow, a place […]
McDonald’s meal.Patcharaporn Puttipon2465/Shutterstock A centenarian has been having breakfast at McDonald’s almost every day for 36 years. The West Virginia resident and WWII veteran went to the chain with friends to celebrate his 100th birthday. “I can’t stop now,” Zan White told local station WDTV. A man from West Virginia who served in World War […]
Feb. 3—TUPELO — Much has changed at the company Stark Weatherall founded 100 years ago, but he would still appreciate and likely admire what it has become in the capable hands of the Lehman family. Weatherall Printing Co. was founded as an office supply and stationers store, and shedding the office supply portion in 1957, […]
ST. LOUIS – World War II began nearly 85 years ago, and now in 2024, a St. Louis family is celebrating the 100th birthday of WWII veteran Ken Luttrell. “Back at his 90th birthday party, he said, ‘I’ll see you all in ten years’ and he meant it,” Nancy Luttrell, daughter of Luttrell, said. While […]
Three former subpostmasters have had their decade-old convictions quashed at the Court of Appeal, taking the total number of quashed convictions due to the Horizon scandal to 100. On Thursday, Allen Reynolds, Nilufar Ali and Davinder Bangay were cleared of their convictions for theft or fraud, each dating back to between 2008 and 2011, court […]
PLAINS TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A special rare milestone birthday took place Saturday afternoon at the Mohegan Pennsylvania casino in Wilkes-Barre. Daniel Norman is a resident of Highland Park Senior Living and today, he celebrated his 100th birthday playing roulette at the casino. He is a World War II and Vietnam War Veteran in […]
Jan. 27—Kindergarten students at Horse Creek Academy celebrated the school’s 100th day on Friday by parading through the halls in costumes, carrying noisemakers and wearing hats that declared each student to be “100 days smarter!” The parade was a highlight of the event, featuring 5K students who had mastered counting to the number 100. “One […]
Two civilians were killed in northern Israel on Sunday after an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon hit their home in a town near the border, raising new concerns of a second conflict erupting against the backdrop of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The deadly strike came on the 100th day of a conflict between Israel and […]
Two civilians were killed in northern Israel on Sunday after an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon hit their home in a town near the border, raising new concerns of a second conflict erupting against the backdrop of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The deadly strike came on the 100th day of a conflict between Israel and […]