Obituaries

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday revived a bid by a Honduran man convicted of murder in Texas to secure federal funds to press his claim that his trial lawyers neglected to offer evidence to a jury that could have spared him from the death penalty.The justices threw out a lower court ruling preventing death row inmate Carlos Manuel Ayestas from seeking funds to collect mitigating evidence that ...

PFLUGERVILLE - An unemployed 24-year-old man suspected of a three-week bombing campaign in Texas that killed two people and injured five others blew himself up on the side of a highway as police closed in on him early Wednesday, authorities said.Police had tracked the suspect to a hotel about 20 miles (32 km) north of Austin, the state capital, and were following his vehicle when he pulled to the side of the ...

(Left to right) Athletic Director Chad Edeker, student Michael Arbogast, Willa Wilson, student Jon Shumaker and industrial tech teacher Mark Dugger helped install two new flags at WACO.

By Gloria Yoder Amazing how swiftly life can whisk you from one stage to another. Just a year ago, we had only two children, and now here we are with five little blessings!Honestly, we have had our share of ?growing pains? that have gone with it, but then life wouldn't be complete without any of these little darlings, including the two foster children.Being a mother of a flock of children really is a dream ...

AUSTIN/SCHERTZ - A package bomb blew up at a FedEx Corp distribution center near San Antonio on Tuesday, officials said, and the FBI was investigating whether it was linked to a series of four homemade bombs that hit the Texas capital of Austin this month.Officials did not say if the latest incident was the work of what Austin police believe could be a serial bomber responsible for the four earlier devices that ...

IOWA CITY ? An Iowa City preschool teacher won a $1,000 grant to bring the outside inside her classroom.Melanie Harrison, a preschool teacher at the Apple Tree Children's Center in Iowa City, won the 2018 Terri Lynne Lokoff Children's TYLENOL®, Children's ZYRTEC® National Child Care Teacher Award.The award augments a preschool teacher's budget for programming.Harrison said that since she started at Apple Tree ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating Facebook Inc over its use of personal data, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, amid reports that a London-based political consultancy had improperly accessed information on 50 million Facebook users.Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the matter, said the probe would look into whether the social media company allowed Cambridge ...

The sea creatures are delicate and beautifully rendered, carefully constructed glass creatures so lifelike they could be mistaken for the anemones, corals, octopi and jellyfish they're modeled after.When University of Iowa MFA candidate JD Whitman saw these works, created in the late 1800s by German glass craftsman Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, she was intrigued. She was studying marine biology in Ireland on a ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave the green light to two class-action lawsuits filed by residents of Flint, Michigan who are pursing civil rights claims against local and state officials over lead contamination in the city's water supply.The justices left in place a July 2017 ruling by the Cincinnati, Ohio-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that revived the litigation after the lawsuits ...

Monday?12 p.m.: Weight Watchers. E3 Center, Mt. Pleasant.?6:15 p.m.: Mt. Pleasant Evening Rotary meets at the IWU Howe Student Center.?6:30 p.m.: Walk-in bingo at the Mt. Pleasant Veterans Hall.?7 p.m.: Mt. Pleasant Middle School Parent Night.?7 p.m.: Boy Scouts Troop 28 meet at the First Presbyterian Church, Mt. Pleasant.?7-8 p.m.: Al-Anon/Alateen family groups, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 202 E. ...