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Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 2/15/2021 10:50:05 AM In October 1792, the Temple town fathers met to address a frightening development in the town, Monadnock Center for History and Culture executive director Michelle Stahl said. “Smallpox had broken out in a community that had grown up around the site of the old glassworks that had been abandoned in 1783. At their meeting, they voted ‘…that a man be procured to inspect ye Houses of the Small Pox, both at Mr. Todd’s and Jube Savage’s,’” she said, and that the necessary supplies and doctors be secured.  It was the first m...

Prison release expected for driver in Northern California bus crash that killed 11 [The Sacramento Bee] Jan. 18—The driver of a casino-bound bus that crashed into a ditch north of Sacramento and killed 11 passengers in 2008 will likely be ordered released from prison next month, according to his attorney. The secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Kathleen Allison, called for the driver, Quinton Watts, to be resentenced in a letter to the Colusa County District Attorney’s Office, Watts’ public defender, and the judge who presided over the case. A state...

The American pirate who kicked off one of Hong Kong's earliest major political scandals Updated 7:57 PM ET, Tue December 22, 2020 Hong Kong (CNN)The 1857 trial of American pirate Eli Boggs in Hong Kong was a riveting affair, filled with tales of plunder, kidnapping and murder on the high seas. But it was Boggs' two-hour closing statement that shook the British colony's political establishment to its core. Boggs accused a top colonial official, Daniel Caldwell, and another notorious pirate, Ma Chow Wong, of working together in secret to protect each others' interests. Boggs claimed that Wong d...

Pocahontas is the hot item this Christmas season. The Barbie-size doll, star of the Walt Disney film “Pocahontas,” reigns as queen of the toys, according to local merchants. Employees at PayLess Drugs, Wal-Mart and Pendleton Grain Growers agree that the doll, complete with clothes and curling iron, ranks as a best seller. Folks are also shopping for Monopoly, revised for its 60th anniversary. “The board and token cars have been redesigned,” said Julie Wood, purchaser for PGG, “and they’ve added Monopoly Man to their tokens.” As children sit on Santa’s l...

Six men convicted of child sex crimes (Top L-R): Kevin Martin, Zachorey Taylor, and William Wood. (Bottom L-R): Robert Lundstrom, Kendrick Gates, and Jacob Fitzgerald. (Source: Attorney General's Office) By Anthony Warren | December 18, 2020 at 10:10 AM CST - Updated December 18 at 2:38 PM JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Six men were sentenced to a combined 84 years in prison, following prosecutions by the Mississippi Attorney General’s Cyber Crime Division. On Friday, Attorney General Lynn Fitch made the announcement, saying that tips of child exploitation have grown 30 percent this year...