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Wednesday, April 14, 2021 Major Thomas L. Moyers (ret), 82, passed away at home in Mountain Home, April 8, 2021. He was born October 26, 1938 in Oakville, Iowa to Roy and Lorena Moyers and was the oldest of 4 sons. Tom grew up on the family farm, hunting and trapping with a passion to play baseball. He graduated from Oakville High School, Iowa in 1956. From a young age he wanted to fly so he enlisted in the Air Force while in Mesa, AZ with his parents in 1957. After basic training and advanced school, he was stationed at Roswell, NM and worked on B52’s. While home on leave he met Sylvia...

A young man died last week after a police chase. For the family of another man, it recalled their own son’s death Credit: (April Saul/WHYY) At a May 2019 vigil for Michael Thomas in Camden, Thomas’ son, Major Thomas is embraced by Michael Thomas’ brother, Shaqjuan Randall. (April Saul / WHYY) The news that a young Camden man died after being pursued by police on the evening of Feb. 6, 2021 hit Tanisha Randall hard. The decedent had tried to elude Camden police after they pulled him over for reckless driving at about 7:30 p.m. He then crashed his car, ran up an embankment and onto Rout...

Today: Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 71. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph. Tonight: Mostly sunny skies and highs remaining in low 70s are expected for the coming week. Courtesy of HistoryNet: 1718 Born: Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War hero. 1785 Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American Dr. John Jeffries make the first crossing of the English Channel in a hydrogen balloon. 1800 Born: Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States. 1865 Cheyenne and Sioux warriors attack Julesburg, Colo., in retaliation for the Sand Creek Massacr...

History is riddled with accounts of the weird and the paranormal that have slipped into the cracks to remain mostly obscure and forgotten. Looking through these forgotten reports one can often find rather spectacular accounts that exist in a sort of limbo, despite the fact that they are often quite spectacular in scope. One very strange such historical oddity allegedly happened back in the 17th century, and revolves around a strange, eccentric man who would draw to him tales of witchcraft, magic, and demonic powers. The scene of this story is the winding, cobbled street of Edinburgh’s West ...

Galesburg fought against deadly disease as local industry hummed along. And it was the week that the Axis Powers truly formed as Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact. On Thursday, The Register-Mail announced that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as reports were coming in that Japan would side with Germany if the United States went to war, had placed an embargo on American scrap metal going to Japan. It was no secret that the United States did not approve of Japan’s invasion of China in 1937 and subsequent efforts to further conquer southeast Asia. In black and white newsprin...