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Members of the Avard Rail Authority were quite pleased to hear that five trains were on an unloading schedule at the site near Avard. A large pipeline project requiring 60 miles of pipe is utilizing dozens of rail cars. These trains will continue to...

Happy Birthday To June 15: Terr Darr, Lois Tolle, Betty Bliss, Blythe Bowers June 17: Phillip Welty, Brandy Darr, Bryan Pierce June 18: Kyle Reed, Harvey Dunlap, Michelle Schroeder June 19: Carol Rooney, Robert Frei, Chris Wagner, Heather Winn June...

The order of services on Sunday, June 11, was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Welcome and sharing life’s happenings: Freedom Museum Fund Raising Supper Friday, June 16 (this Friday) in the Fellowship Hall at 6:30 p.m. No admission at the door. E...

The Freedom Chamber of Commerce is under new leadership. In April, Bryant Weber was voted in as president, Patricia Dauphin as vice president, Jenny Province as secretary and Misty Weber as treasurer. Officers in attendance for the June meeting...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Education authorities in Hungary say they are evaluating the installation of shooting galleries in schools to increase the variety of sports available for students. The Klebelsberg Center, which oversees Hungary's e...

STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — Two dozen people have been charged with three hazing counts each in April hazing incidents that put five Tarleton State University students in the hospital with alcohol poisoning. The hazing happened at two parties April 2...

SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — A University of Nevada, Reno professor pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors in a case involving walking a 13-year-old student to a principal's office by his ear. The Reno Gazette-Journal reports (http://on.rgj.com/2tjiUoq ) t...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has handed a lifeline to efforts to block the Dakota Access pipeline, ruling Wednesday that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers didn't adequately consider the possible impacts of an oil spill where the pipeline p...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Dozens of insurance companies say they're not obligated to help pay for Duke Energy Corp.'s multi-billion dollar coal ash cleanup because the nation's largest electric company long knew about but did nothing to reduce the t...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A county job development authority in the North Dakota oil patch on Wednesday launched a unique initiative aimed at centralizing state and university programs to help build a regional workforce less susceptible to the b...

PARIS (AP) — OPEC's plan to cut production and support prices is likely to be undone by increased output in the U.S., the International Energy Agency predicted Wednesday. If correct, that could keep a lid on oil and energy prices as a glut of s...

JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) — A group of Arkansas farmers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the makers of the herbicide dicamba that they blame for damaging their crops. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Jonesboro, Arkansas, a...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Several pigs that were left four years ago on a small island within the California Delta have become the center of residents' debate after an animal-rights group took them off the island. The Sacramento Bee reports (...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An economic development agency targeted for elimination by President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday nearly $16 million in funding to help diversify economies in hard-hit coal communities in seven Appalachian states. T...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A rifle-wielding attacker opened fire on Republican lawmakers as they practiced for a charity baseball game Wednesday, critically wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and hitting aides and Capitol police as c...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska is sending its first shipment of beef to China under an agreement that allowed the U.S. to resume exports after a 14-year hiatus. The first boxes from Greater Omaha Packing went out Wednesday. Gov. Pete Ricketts and N...

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Spitting out a mouthful of blood, I clambered to my feet and tried to regain my bearings. A large calf wheeled around me and sped off toward the branded herd. As riders trotted out to bring it back, several people approached m...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Supporters and opponents of abortion rallied Wednesday at the Missouri Capitol as a special session of the Legislature considered new restrictions in a state that already has some of the nation's toughest abortion laws. R...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's criminal ban on medical marijuana is being challenged in a lawsuit that says its use could help combat the state's opioid addiction woes. The suit, filed Wednesday in Franklin County Circuit Court in Frankfort, l...

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Five people, including the head of Michigan's health department, were charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter in an investigation of Flint's lead-contaminated water, all blamed in the death of an 85-year-old man who had L...