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When last we saw him (in this column Oct. 11) condemned murderer Amos Ratliff was smiling on his way to a good night's sleep in the death cell within the Arkansas prison known as "the Walls," in Little Rock.

At the Oct. 9 Kansas Press Association President's Gala in Newton, four new members were inducted into the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame’s Class of 2021. They are: • The late Lloyd Ballhagen, a former Harris Enterprises executive. • Roxana Hegeman, long-time Associated Press correspondent in the Wichita bureau. • Joel Klaassen, former owner of the Hillsboro Free Press and Kansas Publishing Ventures. •  Tom Slaughter, former AP bureau chief and later executive director of the In...

The U.S. Coast Guard Northeast said that four people have been rescued off a fishing vessel that ran aground just south of Yarmouth last night.

Bank teller, 1930s UK courtesy photo/pinterest The confrontation was brief but serious as the two constables tracking four bank robbers met them about three p.m. on the afternoon of December 11, 1930 on the Athens-Palestine Road.  According to the Athens Weekly Review of that date the lawmen exchanged gunfire with the bandits who had just stolen $12,000 from the First State Bank of Frankston. The ensuing gun fire injured the constables and possibly one of the ...

SANDWICH — Temperatures at the Sandwich Marina on Friday morning stood at the freezing mark, with a bitter wind and driving snow. Despite this, 25 crewmen and captains from Cape and New Bedford fishing vessels sat down in slushy snow to wriggle into what could be the most important article of clothing they will ever try on. They call them Gumby suits, and it’s easy to see why. A survival suit is bright orange with oversized hands and feet and a tight-fitting hood that reveals only a smal...