NEW PHILADELPHIA − Dan Lux was awarded Best in Show for his photo of milkweed seeds during the 2024 contest and exhibition by the Tuscarawas County-based Focus Point photo club, in partnership with the Tuscarawas County Center for the Arts. Local photographers submitted a record-breaking 189 photographs for display and review. Three photographer jurors, Terry […]
The man at the center of the largest and most costly public corruption trial in Tulare County history pleaded no contest on Friday to six felony and two misdemeanor counts. However, former Healthcare Conglomerate Associates’ CEO Dr. Yorai “Benny” Benzeevi will likely not spend any jail time for his admitted crimes. The plea agreement requires the emergency room […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Republican presidential contest is shifting to a critical two-week phase ahead of the South Carolina primary, which may prove to be the last chance for Nikki Haley to blunt Donald Trump’s march to the nomination. Enjoying a difficult day for President Joe Biden and fresh off another dominant win in […]
The results of the voting in the National Selection for Eurovision 2024, which took place the day before, were announced on Sunday, 4 February. Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil will represent Ukraine at the 68th Eurovision Song Contest. A total of 1,167,000 viewers voted for contestants in the National Selection using Diia, a mobile app. […]
Springfield’s seventh annual Black History Month Art Contest is underway and now community members are encouraged to vote on their favorite piece of artwork. The Black History Month Art Contest is a collaboration between the Boys & Girls Club of Springfield and UScellular. Boys & Girls Club members were encouraged to create an original piece […]
The race in California’s 47th Congressional District has a large field of Democratic candidates vying for the House seat currently held by Democratic Rep. Katie Porter. Porter is running for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by Dianne Feinstein, who died last year. In this affluent, largely coastal district covering a large swath of Orange […]
Robyn, July 2019 (Joseph Okpako/Redferns) Robyn and Fever Ray are among more than 1,000 Swedish signatories of an open letter calling for the Eurovision Song Contest to ban Israel from the 2024 competition, the final of which takes place in the Swedish city of Malmö on May 11. Axel Boman, Refused, DJ Seinfeld, Peder Mannerfelt, […]
A group of artists in Sweden, this year’s Eurovision host country, are requesting that Israel be barred from participating in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest over the nation’s “brutal” war in Gaza. In an open letter signed by more than 1,000 Swedish musicians published in the Swedish paper Aftonbladet, the artists decried the “humanitarian disaster” […]
Jan. 26—For the second time since 1999, Permian High School theater students will be competing in the International Thespian Festival at Indiana University in Bloomington in late June 2024. Eight students in Head Theatre Director Micaela Grenier’s class achieved this goal. “I’m very proud of our competitors, including those who didn’t qualify to move on […]
WASHINGTON — Each of them has sat behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, signed bills into law, appointed judges, bartered with foreign leaders and ordered the armed forces into combat. They both know what it is like to be the most powerful person on the planet. Yet the general election matchup that seems […]
Jan. 23—Voting is now open for the 2023-24 Name a Snowplow contest, the Minnesota Department of Transportation announced today. The top eight vote-getters will become MnDOT snowplow names — one new name for each MnDOT district. See the list of finalists and vote now at mndot.gov/nameasnowplow. Voting will remain open through Sunday, Jan. 28. Individuals […]
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