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BARRE, Mass. — One by one, items purportedly taken from Native Americans massacred at Wounded Knee Creek emerged from the dark, cluttered display cases where they’ve sat for more than a century in a museum in rural Massachusetts. Moccasins, necklaces, clothing, ceremonial pipes, tools and other objects were carefully laid out on white backgrounds as [...]
WASHINGTON — Dave Muffley thought he had it made when it came to a solid retirement. The Indiana man spent roughly 30 years as a salaried maintenance technician for Delphi Corp., a subsidiary of General Motors Corp., and expected to retire with a comfortable income by the time he hit 62. However, when GM plunged [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government hopes a new website can help people and local governments beat the increasingly deadly heat of a warming world. Days after nearly half the country — an estimated 154.6 million people — sweated through a blistering heat wave, the Biden administration July 26 unveiled heat.gov, which includes maps, forecasts [...]
For as long as anyone can remember, rent increases rarely happened at Ridgeview Homes, a family-owned mobile home park in upstate New York. That changed in 2018 when corporate owners took over the 65-year-old park located amid farmland and down the road from a fast-food joint and grocery store about 30 miles northeast of Buffalo. [...]
As a new school year approaches, COVID-19 infections are again on the rise, fueled by highly transmissible variants, filling some families with dread. They fear the return of a pandemic scourge: outbreaks that sideline large numbers of teachers, close school buildings and force students back into remote learning. Some school systems around the country have [...]
A Delaware County therapeutic riding center that caters to children with disabilities or developmental challenges, as well as to first responders and veterans, has plans to expand its facility. Stockhands Horses for Healing, co-founded by Tim Funk and Lisa Benton, is a non-profit organization that operates the therapeutic riding center. The center, established in 2014, [...]
It’s the summer that cooled the housing market. Rising mortgage rates have combined with already high home prices to discourage would-be buyers. Mortgage applications have declined sharply. Sales of previously occupied homes have fallen for five straight months, during what is generally the busiest time of year in real estate. The rate on a 30-year [...]
A local floral business has a goal of helping the community while, at the same time, saving flowers from a one-time use. Full Circle Floral, owned by Victoria Prokup in the Milo-Grogan area, is a Columbus re-sale shop for previously owned flowers that donates money raised to local community gardens. Customers donate flowers from events [...]
SEATTLE (AP) — Dominique Davis was inside a Seattle-area church one day in March 2021 when a man with a handgun opened fire during a meeting of Community Passageways, a group he founded that works to curb gun violence. The gunman shot 19-year-old Omari Wallace several times before fleeing. Wallace, who was attending an orientation [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. Steven Marsh never thought he would see the day his church in Laguna Woods, Calif. — a town of 16,500 populated largely by retirees — would be spending $20,000 a month for security. Then a gunman opened fire on May 15 during a luncheon at Geneva Presbyterian Church, where [...]