Obituaries

ANCHORAGE - Most members of a U.S. National Park Service advisory board, appointed while Barack Obama was president, have resigned after saying they were ignored by President Donald Trump's administration, the panel chairman said on Tuesday.The National Park System Advisory Board, whose creation was authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1935, is tasked with advising on matters such as the designation of historic ...

The Henry County Historic Preservation Commission will present its annual report to the Henry County Board of Supervisors on Thursday, Jan. 18, at the supervisors' office in the courthouse at 10:30 a.m. The Commission will then hold its regular monthly meeting at 11 a.m. at Sip in Mt. Pleasant. The public is invited to attend.

The Fairfield Area Weighted Blankets organization, made up of local and area individuals, is holding workshops on making free weighted blankets for the use of individuals with autism who benefit from the special blankets.The group will set up a display of weighted blankets at the Fairfield Public Library on Tuesday, Jan. 15, and it will remain on display through Friday, Feb. 2.A list of workshop dates held at ...

Sarah Hyatt is looking to peek into the past of some of Iowa's most historically-significant buildings, and she's doing it through paranormal investigation.Like many, Hyatt, of Marion, was intrigued with paranormal investigation TV shows and consumed many books filled with ghost stories.After taking a class about paranormal investigation at Kirkwood Community College, she decided with her husband in 2012 to ...

Iowa Wesleyan University welcomes artist David Fleming, of Fairfield, as their featured artist in the P. E. O Building Art Gallery from Jan. 29 to March 23. An artist reception will be held Wednesday, Feb. 21 at 12:10 p.m. in the Art Gallery for a meet and greet with the artist.?What interests me in digital photography is the freedom for digital abstraction, the freedom from representational qualities in art,? ...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE - Pope Francis said on Monday he was really afraid about the danger of nuclear war and that the world now stood at ?the very limit?.His comment, made as he flew off for a visit to Chile and Peru, came after Hawaii issued a false missile alert that provoked panic in the U.S. state and highlighted the risk of possible unintended nuclear war with North Korea.Asked if he was worried about the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump rejected a bipartisan ?Dreamer? immigration plan proposed by a group of U.S. senators, saying it did not fund his long-touted wall along the border of Mexico and calling it ?a step backward.??The so-called bipartisan DACA deal presented yesterday to myself and a group of Republican Senators and Congressmen was a big step backwards,? Trump wrote in a post on Twitter, ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Guards at several French prisons protested on Friday after a scissors-attack on several colleagues by an Islamist militant facing extradition to the United States over the 2001 attacks once he completes a jail term for al Qaeda killings in Tunisia.The guards demanded the resignation of the prison chief at Vendin-le-Vieil in northern France, where Christian Ganczarski hurt three guards with a ...

KISSIMMEE, Florida - At Leslie Campbell's office in the central Florida city of St. Cloud, the phone will not stop ringing.Director of special programs for the Osceola County School District, Campbell helps enroll students fleeing storm-ravaged Puerto Rico.Her job has been a busy one. Since hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated the Caribbean in September, over 2,400 new students have arrived in the district. ...

MANILA - Hundreds of thousands of devotees in the Philippines, many of them barefooted, joined a chaotic procession on Tuesday that featured a black statue of Jesus Christ, one of the biggest annual festivals in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation.The faithful gathered in downtown Manila to follow a carriage bearing the statue called the Black Nazarene, believed to have healing powers, in a parade that began ...