Obituaries

The Henry County Health Center Gift Shop will have its annual Christmas lobby sale from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7.Many Christmas items and other unique gift items will be displayed in the HCHC main lobby and in the gift shop. The monthly First Thursday sale also will be going on that day featuring 25 percent off one regularly priced item. The Friends of HCHC holiday cookie sale pickup also will be in ...

In the 29 years that towboat captain Joe Gray has worked flotillas of barges up and down the Ohio River, he has witnessed the decline at the heart of industrial America in what is known as the country's Rust Belt.Gray, 46, spends up to eight months a year doing 28-day stints on the barges carrying coal, corn and gravel between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Cairo, Illinois. Some 600 million tons of goods still ...

St. Alphonsus held its 20th Fall Festival this past September. Keeping with tradition, area charities requesting money from the auction were awarded over $5,300. The six organizations selected by the Fall Festival committee were Family Connection, Help to Others (H2O), Henry County Food Resource Bank, Informed Choices and IA Chapter of Cystic Fibrosis Research and Relay for Life (Cancer).Additionally, a $5,300 ...

Danville Congregational UCC Women's Fellowship will have boxes of homemade Christmas Cookies for sale at Bob Dodd's meeting room, from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10. Proceeds will go toward their mission projects.

Just Peace Outreach Group (J-POG) is hosting Kathy Kelly on Sunday, Dec. 10. Kelly is the coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times. She received the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation Peace Prize in 2015. She will be speaking on ?Yemen, Afghanistan, and the War against the Poor.?Kelly has recently returned from Kabul, Afghanistan, where she was ...

Winfield-Mt. Union students will be presenting two concerts to entertain the community this season.WMU High School Band and Choir will present a concert of holiday music on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 10, at 2 p.m. in the big gym. There will be a good variety of music to put listeners into a festive mood. Selah, a local women's ensemble, will be featured as guest performers and will sing with the WMU HS Choir. Plan ...

WASHINGTON ? A federal judge ordered Energy Transfer Partners LP to coordinate with local tribes and the Army Corps of Engineers to create an oil-spill response plan for the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline by next April, a decision he said will allow oil to keep flowing and prevent spills.The order on Monday by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg came nearly six months after he ruled that the Army Corps of ...

(Reuters) Indivior's experimental drug to help fight America's growing opioid addiction crisis was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration late on Thursday, boosting its sales prospects as competitors threaten revenues from an older product.Shares in the London-listed company, which specializes in addiction treatment, were up 10.9 percent at 411 pence at 0818 GMT on Friday. The stock was the top gainer ...

ANKENY ? The Des Moines company selected to grow marijuana and manufacture medical cannabis products would like to produce tinctures, creams, soft gels, suppositories and even inhalers that allow patients with a variety of ailments to get customized therapies.?We want to create efficacious doses within the parameters established by the law,? Lucas Nelson, an attorney for Kemin Industries and a consultant with ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) ? U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman has been forced to cancel a planned trip to Russia's Far East next week because senior regional officials could not find time to meet him, the U.S. Embassy to Russia said in a statement on Friday.The United States has a consulate in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East and the embassy said his planned visit was part of a series of trips to places where the ...