Isaac Thomas, 77, of Columbia, Missouri, passed away on Tuesday, June 23, 2020, at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital in Columbia. Private Graveside Services with military honors will be held at the Missouri
Merry Dean Patterson Woodard, 93, of Arcadia, LA went to be with her Heavenly Father on June 29, 2020, in Arcadia, LA. She was born Dec. 26, 1926, in Ruston, LA, to the late Edna Maxwell and Albert Patterson.
DEAR HARRIETTE: I am a politically active 27-year-old woman. My younger brother, who is just about to enter college, informed me that he wants to join a fraternity. I actively protested against fraternities during my time in college, as I believe they promote toxic masculinity and are spaces of sexual harassment. I also have several friends who were harassed by fraternity members during their time at college. I don’t want my brother to be influenced by this toxic environment, so how should I dissuade him from joining? Or should I allow him to make his own mistakes and simply talk to him about his experiences while in the fraternity as they come up?
NEW YORK (AP) — Carl Reiner, the ingenious and versatile writer, actor and director who broke through as a “second banana” to Sid Caesar and rose to comedy’s front ranks as creator of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and straight man to Mel Brooks’ “2000 Year Old Man,” has died. He was 98.
Mt. Harmony Baptist Church’s Kids-N-Harmony pre-K school graduated its first class Saturday with a ceremony held outside of the church. Pictured seated from left to right on the front row are graduates Julian Semien, Ava Shivers, Emoni Johnson, Aalia Williams, PaisLee’ Stringfellow and Adalyn Bonner. Pictured from left to right standing behind the graduates are school administrators and board members Ed Jackson, Shirley Lewis, Sonya Slaton, Clinton Lewis and Gloria George.
Dubach School art teacher Lauren Dixon has worked tirelessly to create a space where students get excited about creating, learn about new art techniques, work through situations to problem solve during lessons, and exhibit pride when presenting their work to others.
WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era.
