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Presbyterian missionaries first served Choctaw people in Mississippi, and traveled with them along the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory. While Choctaws focused on educating their youth, Presbyterian missions concentrated

Another dead black man. Another mysterious death. Another federal investigation.

Spar has renewed sponsorship of the Lancashire School Games, continuing a successful partnership with Active Lancashire for an 18th consecutive year.

SPAR has renewed sponsorship of the Lancashire School Games, continuing a successful partnership with Active Lancashire for an 18th consecutive year

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Looking Back on May 1 Share 100 Years Ago: 1921 The Bates Needle club met yesterday afternoon at Rand Hall with Mrs. Belle Shaffier and Miss Sarah Nickerson as hostesses, The routine of business took place and refreshments were served during the afternoon, The next meeting will be held with Mrs. George M. Chase of Frye Street, Lewiston. 50 Years Ago: 1971 Mrs. Alfred Wright Jr. will present a program of piano music when members of the Bates Needle Club meet May 3 at the Women’s Union on Frye ...

Bill Wright, Who Broke a Color Barrier in Golf, Dies at 84 In 1959, decades before Tiger Woods, Wright became the first Black golfer to win a United States Golf Association event. Bill Wright in the Amateur Public Links Championship in Denver in 1959. His victory there was a singular moment for Black golfers at a time when the P.G.A. bylaws still had a “Caucasians-only” clause.Credit...Denver Post, via Getty Images Feb. 25, 2021 Bill Wright, the first Black competitor to win a United States...

Photo by Sporting News via Getty Images/Sporting News via Getty Images via Getty Images Nicknames can be either a blessing or a curse, especially when they’re awarded so early in life. As a 17-year-old freshman at the University of Colorado in the mid-1930s, a small-town boy named Byron White picked up a nickname from local Denver Post columnist Leonard Cahn during the annual Colorado-Denver freshman game that, for better or worse, stuck with him for the rest of his life. Byron “Whizzer�...

And he says to me, the last time he says you all cannot search that barn. im not going to let you search that barn. my nephew lives in the top of the barn. >> the the familys lawyer, ryan mcleod says sheriffs deputies told him specially trained dogs brought to the ranch lost alfreds scent near a creek. >> if alfreds body was there, it is incredible -- its actually unimaginable to me that dogs would not have found his body. >> tom maddox is sheriff in sabine county, and he was on scene during the...

Body, volunteer searchers immediately noticed something out of the ordinary. >> the one thing that stood out when we first found the body, we couldnt explain the dime, why is there a silver dime lying on top of the ground. we couldnt figure that one out. >> its unlikely the dime fell out of alfreds pocket, since he was found wearing only black boxers, his shoes, and a single sock with his cell phone tucked inside. there had been lots of rain and heavy winds. yet the shiny dime was spotted in pla...