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No doubt life is always changing. If you don’t like the weather it will change, eventually. It’s been hot most all over but cooler weather will come. In most of the country, cooler weather will be welcomed sooner rather than later.
Read moreYou shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land into which you are about to cross to possess it.
Read moreSo now cocaine is legal in Oregon, but straws aren’t. That must be frustrating.
Read moreHIS YEAR’S ANNUAL SHOP WITH A COP IN HUGHES COUNTY WAS A HUGE SUCCESS
Read moreA Wetumka woman has been charged with two separate felony counts of assault and battery on police officer/detention officer, according to documents filed in the District Court of Seminole County on December 21. A felony information document filed in this case states that Athena Yvette Hale, 41, "on or about the 14thday of December, 2023, by willfully and unlawfully biting, kicking and hitting (separate victims for each of 2 counts), a Seminole County Detention Officer with the intent to injure (victims), knowing (victims) was a Seminole County Detention Office who was performing the duties of a detention officer." The probable cause affidavit filed in this case states that on December 14, at approximately 3:15 a.m. Seminole County Sheriff's Deputy Kendra Goodwin was dispatched to the Seminole County Jail to assist with a combative inmate that was brought into the jail. (Hughes County Court documents show that Hale was charged with a misdemeanor charge of domestic abuse assault and battery in the District Court of Hughes County on December 20. Hughes County inmates are currently being housed in the Seminole County Jail).
Read moreChristmas was bleak when I was fourteen years old. My father had fallen off the roof our barn while trying to make a repair. He was severely injured. His hospital and home recovery rook months. As a coal mining family, we lived financially tight in the best of times. Although farming and gardening often got us over the hump. With no paycheck coming into our household for several months, I have no clue how my mother and father kept the lights burning.
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