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Smoke may be seen rising from Fort Hood today, as the post is conducting a controlled burn that is scheduled to begin after 11 a.m. The burn will take place in Training Area 41, on the west side of the Installation between West Range, Elijah and Turkey Run Roads. The US Fish and Wildlife Service from Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge, in conjunction with the DPW Natural and Cultural Resources Management Branch, will conduct the burn. Forecast winds are out of the south and blowing north, a DPW supervisor said via email Tuesday.

Edgar Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, to traveling actors David Poe Jr. (a Baltimore, Maryland, native) and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins (an emigrant from England). Poe was the couple’s second of three children. His brother, William Henry Leonard Poe, was born in 1807, and his sister, Rosalie Poe, was born in 1810. On December 8, 1811, when Poe was just two years old, his mother died in Richmond. His father, who had left the family in 1810, died of unknown circumstances. Henry, as William Henry Leonard was known, lived with his grandparents in Baltimore, while Rosalie and Edgar rem...

President Jackson wins national Pike award Posted By: News Editor February 4, 2021 Levi Brandenburg lbrandenburg@murraystate.edu President Bob Jackson became the first member of Murray State’s Epsilon Lambda Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha to receive the fraternity’s highest honor.  Jackson was named a distinguished alumnus and inducted into the Order of West Range, a lifetime achievement award that is given to alumni for service to society and accomplishments in their careers, according to a press release.  “I am honored and grateful for this recognition,” Jackson said. “I am bein...