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JANESVILLE “Last call!” will be shouted out to customers near closing time Saturday, just as it has at Legends Tavern for nearly 37 years. But when co-owner Tim Millis turns up the lights and does it Saturday, “last call” will mean much more than it has the previous 13,000-plus times it has been yelled, advising patrons they have 30 minutes to head out the door. On Saturday, it will be the final “last call” for the bar that is an institution in downtown Janesville. Millis and co-owner Dave Harrison will close the front door for the final time Saturday evening. Th...

Vernon Jordan, civil rights leader and close ally of Bill Clinton, dies Updated 11:28 AM ET, Tue March 2, 2021 Washington (CNN)Vernon Jordan, a civil rights leader and close adviser to former President Bill Clinton, died Monday evening. He was 85. A cause of death was not immediately released. Jordan died peacefully at his home surrounded by his wife and family, Jordan's niece Ann Walker confirmed to CNN. According to Walker, Jordan had his favorite dinner and dessert -- chocolate chip ice cream -- before he went to bed. "It was just the way he would have wanted it," Walker told CNN. Read M...

This story is part of Loved and Lost, a statewide media collaboration working to celebrate the life of every New Jersey resident who died of COVID-19. To learn more and submit a loved one's name to be profiled, visit lovedandlostnj.com. Virginia Crilly could do it all.  An English major who graduated magna cum laude from the now-defunct Notre Dame College on Staten Island, she regularly made tatters of the New York Times' revered crossword puzzles.  But Crilly's collegiate minors in French and philosophy shined just as often, said her daughter, Donna Crilly of Ramsey. Those who made the...

Chuck Haga: Recalling those 'beacons of faith on the prairie' Some aging churches have been kept up by a dedicated few parishioners, grandchildren or great-grandchildren of founders. The buildings are still “beacons of faith on the prairie” as another reporter called them in a lovely, respectful piece nearly 20 years ago. Written By: Chuck Haga | × Chuck Haga is a columnist for the Grand Forks Herald. (Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald) For me, the holiday season always brings churches to mind, even in this virus-dominated year when parish doors were often closed or dark worr...

I grew up in Coral Gables, Fla., in the late ‘50s. Only one other Jewish family lived on our street. While my family was still finishing leftover turkey, our neighbors were inflating plastic Santas. I sulked at this injustice until my father found a way to make the holiday meaningful for us.