May 5—ANDERSON — The graduates who stepped across the stage to receive their diplomas Saturday during Anderson University’s 106th commencement ceremony were challenged to take courage and optimism into a world filled with uncertainty and potential. Cheered on by friends and family, the 245 members of the Class of 2024 made the traditional walk from […]
FILE – Attorney Jack Wagoner is interviewed after a hearing in the Pulaski County Court House in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, April 17, 2014. Jack Wagoner, an attorney who represented same-sex couples who successfully challenged Arkansas’ ban on gay marriage before state and federal courts, has died, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. He was 62. (AP […]
A House hearing on Joe Biden’s potential impeachment descended into chaos after Republican chairman James Comer and Democratic congressman Jamie Raskin clashed repeatedly, each claiming the other ‘needed therapy’ Wednesday’s hearing formed part of the ongoing Republican inquiry into Mr Biden, which accuses the president of “corruption” through alleged family business dealings with foreign powers, […]
The award of a contract worth up to an estimated $45 billion for environmental cleanup work at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington has been challenged for a second time. The losing bidder for the contract, Hanford Tank Disposition Alliance, or HDTA, said in a new lawsuit filed in federal court that the Department […]
Joe Biden earned a loud laugh from the audience at a Democratic fundraiser in New York City with a comment about Donald Trump’s golf game. Late-night TV host Stephen Colbert, who was compering Thursday’s event at Radio City Music Hall, teed up the joke by telling the president: “Donald Trump, as far as we can […]
Mar. 24—Should Mayor Scott Cain win reelection on May 4 he will become Cleburne’s longest serving mayor. Challenger James Stuer, however, said he believes and hopes that Cleburne residents are ready for a change. Either way, Cain, who is now in his 12th year in office and is seeking his seventh consecutive term, will tie […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s electoral commission announced on Wednesday that Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, a former general linked to past human rights abuses, was elected president. The results immediately drew allegations of fraud from Subianto’s political rivals. Former Jakarta Gov. Anies Baswedan and former Central Java Gov. Ganjar Pranowo have said they plan to […]
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has insisted that he does not want to “run down” the NHS as junior doctors continue strike action across England. Training medics have walked out for the 10th time since March as the bitter row with the Government over pay continues. Dr Robert Laurenson, co-chair of the British Medical Association […]
The GoodMaps app is now available for the Westlake and International District/Chinatown stations on the Link 1 Line. Sound Transit is making the addition in hopes the program can help riders who face various disabilities. “With its real-time, turn-by-turn directions via a smartphone app, GoodMaps provides accessible wayfinding for all passengers, including those who have […]
A small group of neo-Nazis marched in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday, drawing a few vocal opponents and ultimately leaving following a “challenge,” police said. The demonstrators, all men, wore red, long-sleeve T-shirts and black pants, and some carried black Nazi flags, according to verified social media video from the scene. “Neo-Nazi demonstrators … carried […]
Feb. 18—Republicans in Butler County who reside in the state’s 4th Senate District will again have three choices on who should represent them in Columbus. Incumbent Sen. George Lang of West Chester is being challenged in the March 19 primary by former state lawmaker Candice Keller and Middletown native Mark D. Morgan, who had spent […]
He’d been to her house. He sat at her dinner table. And during a Sunday night card game, he killed her husband, police say. Ronald Joseph, 45, of Huntersville, stood with bloodied clothing and hands when police lights illuminated a northwest Charlotte auto shop off Brookshire Boulevard on Feb. 4. A witness grasped him close, […]