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Johnny James Obenoskey, 27, is wanted in connection to an armed robbery.

1 of 2 Sadie Mitchell, in truck, speaks with Pastor Benjie Nobles of Greater Believers Worship Center Saturday as Pastor Frankie Cadenhead and David Plymel load the back of her pickup with boxes of food to take to people in the area who she knew needed it. Kevin C. Hall/The Moultrie Observer Fifty volunteers showed up to help distribute food boxes Saturday at Trinity Baptist Church in an event that involved the Moultrie Rotary Club, the United Way of Colquitt County, Mou...

Great Bend native Bob Moore, a Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Financial Advisor in Wichita, was recently named to the 2021 Forbes “Best-in-State Wealth Advisors” list.  Moore has made the list three years in a row, and he has also been recognized on the Barron’s Top 1200 Financial Advisors and as a Registered Representative Magazine Outstanding Broker Award Top Ten.  Moore is Senior Resident Director as a manager at his firm, Moore Wealth Management Group. He also is a CFP, ChFC, an...

Michelle Pugliese moved to Asheville on a blustery day in November 2007 and the next morning needed to see for herself the famed mountain known as the Roan, where the mighty Appalachian Trail travels through Mitchell County. “I fell in love with the Roan the first time I saw it. I had no idea as I was driving up to Carvers Gap that I was driving by this property,” said Pugliese, land protection director for the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. The Asheville-based nonprofit land t...

North Carolina GOP lawmakers want to require teaching balanced political viewpoints in schools Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — Some North Carolina Republican lawmakers want to require school districts — but not charter schools — to provide "balanced political discussions in classrooms" and to list their instructional materials online. Proposed legislation filed Wednesday in the General Assembly requires that if the viewpoint of one of the two major political parties is presented, then eq...

Thu, 04/08/2021 - 08:39 BILL WOULD LEGALIZE SPORTS GAMBLING VIA NC EDUCATION LOTTERY: On Wednesday morning, Sens. Jim Perry, a Kinston Republican, and Paul Lowe, a Winston-Salem Democrat, filed Senate Bill 688. If passed, it would authorize sports gambling on professional, college, electronic and amateur sports or any other events approved by the NC Education Lottery Commission. Perry said instead of ignoring illegal gambling legislators should open up conversations about how the state can bene...

photo by: Contributed Photo/Heartland Community Health Center From left, Dr. Cooper Nickel, a primary care provider at Heartland Community Health Center, and his father, Dr. Graig Nickel, a family physician at Watkins Student Health Center at the University of Kansas, receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, at Heartland. Douglas County has the highest rate of people vaccinated against COVID-19 in Kansas, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. In Doug...

email article Mark Haganman, DO, filed a lawsuit against the Iowa hospital where he formerly worked, saying he was terminated as retaliation against his efforts to improve COVID-19 safety measures. Haganman had practiced at MercyOnes Mitchell County Regional Health Center (MCRHC) in Osage, Iowa, for nearly 28 years before being fired in November. His suit lists 10 claims, including that the hospital also retaliated against him for critiquing its leaderships COVID-19 safety plans. Globe Ga...

Oaknoll Retirement Community independent living residents, including David Curry (center) raises a glass for a toast while gathering with other residents at Oaknoll in Iowa City on March 8. The retirement community, which has not had any coronavirus cases among residents, offered a chance to mark the one-year anniversary of COVIDs arrival in Iowa with a “silver linings” party. Liz Martin, The Gazette After a difficult spring and an even more difficult fall, long-term care ...

Bill lifting rules on nurses could make NC health care cheaper. Will it pass this year? Will Doran, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) Mar. 13—RALEIGH — A bipartisan group of state lawmakers has teamed up with advocates for nurses, rural communities and regulatory reform to file a bill they say will make health care both cheaper and more widely available in North Carolina. Its the 2021 version of the SAVE Act, which has been filed in past years and defeated by opposition fr...