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A volunteer firefighter in Stafford County is facing charges for sexually assaulting an underage victim.

In many respects, Royce Fields resembled the ideal recruit for the Minneapolis Police Department: Black, college-educated, with an unshakable desire to serve his community. But after making it through rounds of interviews several years ago, the Army veteran tired of waiting to hear back from the department and decided to move on. Unwilling to let go of his dream of being in law enforcement, ...

Melinda and Bill Gates in 2016 (Shannon Stapleton / Reuters) On Bill and Melinda Gates, Vladimir Putin, George F. Will, Jack Fowler, and more As you have read, Bill and Melinda Gates are getting a divorce. This is personal — a matter for the couple and their family — but I can’t help thinking it’s a blow to society, too. Bill and Melinda Gates have been such an important couple. They have set a standard in philanthropy — not just in the how much but in the ...

Gerry Moore Collection to sell during auctions in May at Summers Place Auctions and Bellmans Gerald Moore, A monumental standing stylised figure. Bronze, 322cm high. Estimate: £6000-10,000. BILLINGSHURST .- Dr Gerald Moore was a polymath, who ran a medical empire, a Safari Park and Motor Museum, while also painting, sculpting and writing novels, childrens books and poetry. Born in 1926, he spent his life in London, Kent, Sussex and retired to Devon where he died in 2018 at the age of 91. His...

Sunday, April 25, 2021 Christa Ludwig acknowledges her Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 Christa Ludwig has died at the age of 93, one of the great singers of the post-war years, and an artist beloved of conductors as different as Otto Klemperer, Karl Böhm, Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Sir Georg Solti, James Levine and Seiji Ozawa. James Jolly recalls a glorious career. The only time London audiences heard Christa Ludwig sing in English was in concert per...

Christa Ludwig in 1978 Credit:  Avalon Christa Ludwig, the mezzo-soprano, who has died aged 93, started out singing for cigarettes in post-war Berlin and ended up one of the world’s leading exponents of opera and leider. During one of the longest and most distinguished careers on the operatic stage, Christa Ludwig made her debut in Frankfurt in 1946 as Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus and gave her farewell performance in Vienna in 1994, as Klytemnestra in Strauss’s Elektra. Her repertoir...

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The monstrous mental asylum: Lewis Nkosi writing home 13 Feb 2021 Songs of revolt: The world-renowned literary critic and broadcaster Lewis Nkosi was born in Durban in 1936. (Victor Dlamini) Ten years after his death in Johannesburg, Lewis Nkosi’s work allows us to critique the country’s worsening fault lines, in the hope of animating all South Africans towards strengthening the fight against endemic historical injustices and poor service delivery. Anchored on issues of colonialism, race, c...

Charlie Adams is a product of the area he polices.

Building permits issued recently by the city of Auburn Code Enforcement Department.