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Months after COVID left him in the ‘fetal position,’ Houston pilot delivers first Pfizer vaccine By Robert Downen, Staff writer Capt. Tom Gregory still gets choked up when he thinks about the flight he took from Michigan last month. “What we delivered that day to the nation — to the world — was hope,” the longtime FedEx pilot said this week. Gregory, a Dickinson native and one-time Marine Corps. second lieutenant, had made similar trips hundreds of times before, helping coordinate deliveries of more than 60 kilotons of protective gear and some 2 billion masks in th...

Virtual Author Visit with Charlie Lovett Community Event Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 7:00pm New York Times bestselling author and Winston-Salem native, Charlie Lovett, will discuss his latest book, "Escaping Dreamland." About the novel: Robert Parrish’s childhood obsession with series books like the Hardy Boys and Tom Swift inspired him to become an author. Just as his debut novel becomes a best-seller, his relationship with his girlfriend, Rebecca, begins to fall apart. Robert realizes he must confront his secret demons by fulfilling a youthful promise to solve a mystery surroundi...

25SHARES The night sky as seen from the Headlands International Dark Sky Park. Image: Headlands International Dark Sky Park By Claire Moore Capital News Service Stargazing, the outdoor activity practiced by curious humans throughout history, is getting a new appreciation during the era of COVID-19. Observatories may be shuttered and amateur astronomy groups temporarily distanced to stop the disease’s spread, but the moon, planets, constellations and even nebulae still appear each night. Glimpsing them can still be done safely with access to a darkened backyard, field, park or even the shore...

To character concerns that are often cited by executives at sports teams. we see that domestic violence tends to rank very low on the offense scale. we see players who are punished through the draft much more severely for things like drug use like marijuana or something to that effect but we have a whole host of athletes who have in the past been accused of domestic violence from jason kidd to robert parrish, this has been high lighted in the ray rice investigation. wes is exactly right, the better an athlete you are, the more you can get away with. nothing like sports to make people lose pers...

comprehensive, thorough and independent investigation, coupled with the medical examiner's determination that mr. gray's death was a homicide which we received today, has led us to believe that we have probably cause to file criminal charges. >> that was baltimore's top prosecutor marilyn mosby announcing the charges ranging from false imprisonment and misconduct in office to manslaughter. and for one officer second degree depraved heart murderer. that says that he acted with extreme disregard for human life. mosby says officers arrested gray repeatedly flouted department policy by r...