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Inside the reading habits of Inverness prison inmates By Andrew Dixon Published: 18:30, 06 March 2021 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Fictional crime thrillers and true-life killer novels are among the books Inverness prisoners have been reading. Heritage and science as well as the hit Game of Thrones series and even Oor Wullie have also featured on the reading list for some inmates since the start of 2019. Self-help books were popular with titles including Meditation for Dummies and The 20-minute Body: 20 m...

Human Subspecies: The Ancient Greek Accounts Several different Greek scholars, historians, and philosophers wrote about these legendary little human subspecies. In Aristotle’s  History of Animals  (300 BC), he writes: “these birds [the cranes] migrate from the steppes of   [modern Eurasia] to the marshlands south of Egypt where the Nile has its source [Ethiopia]. And it is here, by the way, that they are said to fight with the pygmies; and the story is not fabulous, but there is in reality a race of dwarfish men, and the horses are little in proportion, and the men live in caves u...

Montana bill would make voting easier Author: Amy Beth Hanson Associated Press HELENA, Mont. — Emotions ran high Friday as a Montana House committee heard a bill seeking to make it easier for Native Americans to vote. The bill proposes putting into law and advancing terms of a settlement in a voting rights lawsuit and guidance issued by the secretary of state's office for counties and tribes to comply with the settlement, said Democratic Rep. Sharon Stewart Peregoy of Crow Agency, the bill's sponsor. After the hearing, the bill was amended to add a $5,000 appropriation to give the committee...

HELENA — Emotions ran high Friday as a Montana House committee heard a bill seeking to make it easier for Native Americans to vote. The bill proposes putting into law and advancing terms of a settlement in a voting rights lawsuit and guidance issued by the secretary of state's office for counties and tribes to comply with the settlement, said Democratic Rep. Sharon Stewart Peregoy of Crow Agency, the bill's sponsor. After the hearing, the bill was amended to add a $5,000 appropriation to give the committee more time to work on it without missing next week's transmittal deadline for non-a...

Olympia — The use of the potent opioid Fentanyl contributed to a significant rise in Washington overdose deaths during the first half of 2020, according to state data released Friday.