A legendary Cincinnati voice has gone silent. Popular local radio personality Jim Scott, who retired as 700 WLW-AM morning radio host in 2015, died Friday of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He was 81. Scott, of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, was a familiar voice on Cincinnati’s airwaves for 46 years as morning host for WLW, WSAI-AM and others. […]
(EADS, Colo.) — Two and a half hours from Colorado Springs, a grassy valley was witness to one of the worst tragedies of the American West. The Central Plains, which stretch from the Missouri River to the Rockies, were home to thousands of Plains Indians, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, Lakota, and others. They adopted the horse […]
(COLORADO SPRINGS) — This week marks 12 years since the Waldo Canyon Fire sparked in Southern Colorado. At the time, it was the most destructive wildfire in our state’s history. The fire started on June 23, 2012, in the Pike National Forest about three miles west of Colorado Springs, north of Highway 24. Luckily, the […]
Gulf Breeze plastic surgeon Dr. Ben Brown turned himself in to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Department Monday morning, nearly seven months after the death of his 33-year-old wife, Hillary Brown, during a plastic surgery procedure. On Friday, a judge signed an arrest warrant for Ben. He is currently being held in the Santa Rosa […]
Despite mediocre seats and cold temperatures, Daniel Collier talked for years about the Dec. 29, 2019, week 17 Kansas City Chiefs’ win over the Los Angeles Chargers. With the Chiefs’ victory and the Miami Dolphins beating the New England Patriots, Collier’s Chiefs got a first-round bye in the playoffs and went on to win its […]
When Katelyn Markham’s loved ones see butterflies, they think of her. Butterflies decorated Creekside Park in Fairfield on Saturday, just one day after Markham’s fiancé John Carter pled guilty to causing her death in Butler County Common Pleas Court. Supporters of Markham gathered at the park to receive butterfly pins to wear to Carter’s July […]
Jun. 7—ASHTABULA — Lorenzo “Ren” T. Carlisle III, who died on May 26 at the age of 81, made a lasting impact on the community. Ren grew up in Ashtabula and he was a fifth-generation Carlisle. He spent the bulk of his career at Carlisle’s, a regional chain of 14 department and specialty stores in […]
On this day 80 years ago, a farm boy from Alden Kansas got into a landing craft off the Normandy shore and headed for Omaha Beach. When the ramp went down and they begin to leap into the cold water, some of his men, who could not swim, sank and drowned from the weight of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the U.S. Congress on Tuesday said the ruling Chinese Communist Party that sent in tanks against peaceful student protesters 35 years ago in the heart of Beijing is as ruthless and suppressive today as it was in 1989, a stark warning as they commemorated the anniversary of China’s bloody crackdown […]
LONDON (AP) — Gilbert Clarke leans back on the seat of his mobility scooter, cranes his neck and gazes into the bright blue skies over East London, remembering the moment 80 years ago when he knew the invasion of France was under way. Clarke, then an 18-year-old Royal Air Force volunteer from Jamaica, was still […]
June 6 marks the 80th anniversary of the Allies’ D-Day invasion of France during World War II. As many years as it has been, most of us today are familiar with D-Day only through Hollywood, whether it be the film, “Saving Private Ryan,” or the HBO miniseries, “Band of Brothers.” Two years ago, following a […]
My history with former U.S. Senator Bob Graham, who passed away April 16 at age 87, goes back a couplegenerations. His father, Ernest “Cap” Graham, was in the Florida Legislature at the same time as mygrandfather, Guy M. Strayhorn. They became acquaintances as fellow cattlemen, with Cap from Dade Countyand my grandfather from Lee County. […]