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Patriot Point, a coastal waterfront retreat in Dorchester County, Md., for veterans, Gold Star families and caregivers, was purchased by the Military Bowl Foundation in 2016. Part of ticket proceeds from the annual Military Bowl will go to the property.

Skip to main content Currently Reading Texas olive trees hammered by February freeze. State's olive industry won't have another big harvest for 3-5 years FacebookTwitterEmail The 50 acres of olive trees on Dunham Jewett’s farm in Moulton, about 100 miles east of San Antonio, look like a war zone. What had been 10- to 12-foot-high trees with wide canopies are now nothing more than 2- to 3-foot high stumps, cut down following February’s devastating winter storms. When temperatures dropped to 10 degrees and stayed below freezing for about 100 hours, Jewett said that every one of his trees di...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! In the spirit of the American tradition of the season, today we’re going to explore the stories of two Missouri men whose New Year’s Resolutions probably once included “Give up crime” and “Hide from the F.B.I.” This is the sort of thing that used to be very easy to do in Oregon, which is actually the only state (so far as I have been able to learn) to have ever had one of its U.S. Senators serve under an alias which he adopted while running from law enforcement. (That would be John M. Hipple, a.k.a. John H. Mitchell — a cool, amoral Gilded Ag...