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The Ghosts of Comanche Crossing In 1981 three Black teenagers drowned while in law enforcement custody during a Juneteenth gathering at Lake Mexia. Four decades later, Texas’s proudest Emancipation Day celebration still hasn’t recovered. Lake Mexia, seen from Booker T. Washington Park, known locally as Comanche Crossing, on April 21, 2021. Photograph by Michael Starghill Every Juneteenth, as soon as Pamela Baker got to Booker T. Washington Park, she’d race to the merry-go-round, squeeze through the swarm of shrieking kids, grab one of the shiny rails, and hold on tight. After a few min...

All-Time: La Bomba Dishes Out a Wedge Rarity Thursday April 29, 2021 Staff Tommy Cantrell center stage in the photo of the swell. Photo: James Ferrell In the big leagues of surfing’s most photographed waves, Newport Beach’s Wedge ranks high. Give Orange County just a sniff of a South Swell each spring and you’re guaranteed the crowd on the beach will outnumber the crowd in the water next to the jetty, fully equipped with news vans parked in every nook of the peninsula and lenses of every kind pointed toward the horizon. All the hype could make one believe they’d se...

Highlights, La Bomba Part 2: California Tricky conditions -- and moments of brilliance -- grace the Golden State Photo: Fred Pompermayer Link copied to clipboard We covered the heck out of last week’s solid south swell, which turned out to be the biggest of the season thus far — especially in Central America and Mexico where, unlike California, conditions were largely favorable. South-facing breaks in the Golden State saw no shortage of long period swell as it peaked on Saturday, but man, those winds…less-than-ideal in many spots, though places like the Wedge and Malibu which can both d...

Photo of the Swell: Tommy Cantrell, Wedge, 04/24 Freezeframe from a behind-the-peak moment Marcus Sanders Link copied to clipboard Tommy Cantrell. Photo: James Ferrell As you may or may not have noticed, we’ve spent the last while following along as the first big south swell of the year hit the West Coast of the Americas. We’ve seen probably a hundred great rides on video and thousands of photographs from all over the place, which we’ve been happily curating and posting in realtime. Every once in a while, though, a single surf photo from a particular swell stops us in our tracks. Put i...

Hopkinsville, KY, USA / WHOP 1230 AM | News Radio Jan 14, 2021 4:37 PM The Christian County Sheriff’s Department has arrested a Crofton man following a pursuit that ended on Dawson Springs Road Thursday afternoon. According to a news release, Deputy John Quarles attempted to stop a vehicle for an obstructed windshield around North Main Street and the Bypass in Hopkinsville at around 1:00 pm.  The driver, later identified as 40-year old James Ferrell of Crofton, allegedly accelerated and fled the scene.  During the pursuit, Ferrell could be seen throwing items from the vehicle, which were ...