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Article content Oh, what long strange trip it has been. Flashback May 2005. For months had a “cut” on my left ear. My many “Moms” had been saying get it looked at. Had a legitimate reason not to have it looked at. I am male, stubborn and stupid. Despite being a public figure, I am private by nature. No family, friends or co-workers knew the extent of the problem or that surgery was required. In February 2005 a biopsy revealed skin cancer in the upper left ear. In May, naively drove alone to Sarnia General Hospital for the operation. Then a nurse asked “How are you get...

Cartoon by Suerynn Lee Clark had known Floyd, and had looked up to him as a mentor—“my big homie,” he called him. They had often talked to each other at El Nuevo Rodeo, a club where Floyd had worked as a security guard. Clark told me that Floyd had urged him to be more involved in the neighborhood, and to more consciously exercise a positive influence on its youth: “He used to tell me to use my voice—that’s what he always said. Having tattoos on my face, people get the wrong impression. That’s what I loved about George. He told me, ‘As soon as you start...

“Where that leads we don’t know, but it’s going to be exciting. Sometimes we over-use the phrase world class but they are world-class people.” In a statement Wednesday, the XFL put its plans to return in the spring of 2022 on hold, “pending the outcome of our conversations with the CFL.” Johnson later posted a statement on Instagram. “Wherever it all leads, I can tell you this one is personal to me and is driven by all my passion — because being cut by the CFL was the greatest thing that happened,” Johnson wrote. “It set me on a path that years later would lead me right ba...

1922-2021 Fay Hope Parks, age 98, passed away in Ohio on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Her funeral service will begin at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 17, in the Chapel of Memories at Melton-Kitchens Funeral Home. The family will have a 30-minute visitation beginning at 1 p.m. the day of the service. Her interment will be at the Necessity Cemetery following the funeral service. Fay was born on Oct. 30, 1922, in Breckenridge, Texas, to the late Ellis and Willie (Sullivan) Hope. She graduated from Breckenridge High School in 1940. Early in life she worked at a corner grocery store in Breckenridge where ...

Originally published on January 27, 2021 10:40 am When Keith Brown tries to describe the 25 years he spent in prison, he keeps coming back to one word: congested. From the chow hall to the bathrooms, there’s no escape from the constant press of bodies — a feeling that “nobody should ever experience,” he said. Last spring, Brown was incarcerated at Farmington Correctional Center in eastern Missouri, and as inmates began testing positive for the coronavirus, the 8-by-11 cell he shared with another man felt even more cramped. “You and your cellie, you’re right there together,” ...