A Dovekie in Ocracoke Island's Silver Lake harbor on Jan. 4, 2024. Photo by Peter Vankevich By Peter Vankevich The cold open waters off Newfoundland may not seem like an ideal location to spend the winter. But it is for some, especially the Dovekie (Alle alle), a small seabird known as the Little Auk in…
The Mason County Men’s Club met Wednesday, April 12, at 9 a.m. at the French Quarter Inn in Maysville for their regularly scheduled monthly meeting and…
Ex-Missouri city clerk gets 15 years for theft, forgery
February 12, 2021 GMT
GALLATIN, Mo. (AP) A former clerk for the northwestern Missouri city of Coffey has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to theft and forgery charges.
Mary Lou Browning was sentenced this week in Daviess County and ordered to pay restitution. She was charged in 2018 after a state audit showed more than $60,000 missing from city coffers. The audit accused Browning of failing to make deposits, receiving improper payroll payments and falsifying board minutes and other various financial reports during her time as city clerk from September 2015 to August 2017.
Updated: 10:38 PM EST Jan 14, 2021 The Associated Press A species of sea turtle that is rarely seen on North Carolina’s Outer Banks has been found dead in a Frisco marsh near the Pamlico Sound.The Virginian-Pilot reported Tuesday that biologists have so far been unable to find a cause of death of the leatherback sea turtle.Click the video player above for headlines from WXII 12 News.The creature weighed upwards of 500 pounds. And biologists solicited the help of a construction company’s crane to lift the dead animal onto a barge and take it in for a necropsy.Biologists with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission and the National Park Service found no obvious cause of death. The investigation revealed no physical injuries, plastics in the intestines or major parasites. But the animal’s organs suggested the animal was under physiological stress. Leatherback sea turtles are especially rare on the Outer Banks and are typically not bothered by cold