MIDLAND CITY, Ala. For six anguished days, people in this small Alabama town asked just one question about the 5-year-old boy being held hostage in an underground bunker by a menacing, unpredictable neighbor: “Is he free yet?” After FBI agents determined that talks with an increasingly agitated Jimmy Lee Dykes were breaking down, they stormed […]

TROY, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York college plans to establish a new education center in honor of Sandy Hook Elementary School Principal Dawn Hochsprung, who was a doctoral candidate in the college’s educational leadership program. Hochsprung, five other educators and 20 children were killed in the Dec. 14 massacre at the school in […]

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Lawyers for the Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of orchestrating the deadly attack on the USS Cole will present expert testimony today at a pretrial hearing on how to conduct a mental examination of a torture victim. Dr. Vincent Iacopino will testify at the military tribunal in Cuba of Abd al- […]

The old timers say that on Groundhog’s Day you should still have half your woodpile left. I say you should have ordered your seeds and made plans to attend at least one spring flower show. I’m still working on my seed orders, but would like to share the details of the flower shows with you […]

The unflattering stereotype of suziehomemaker military wives who bake casseroles and follow their husbands wherever they go did not come from nowhere. It came from history. But times are changing, and I wonder, has our military culture kept up? Historically, military marriages were a no-brainer. Young men in the service had dependable work and pay […]