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ANNUAL HURON FIRE DEPARTMENT DRIVE FOR SALVATION ARMY – FRIDAY DECEMBER 20
Huron Fire Chief Ron Hines spoke at the commission meeting about their annual fundraising event for the Salvation Army. Hines said the money raised is used locally. 6-9 Friday December 20th. The Cavour Fire department …
MEMORIAL PARK CHRISTMAS DISPLAY IN THE WORKS AFTER DELAY
A familiar site in Christmas decorations of the past several years has been through memorial park. The project put together by Robert Bult and his association with a Boy Scout troop. This year a problem developed as Robert was …
SLUMBERLAND IN HURON WRAPS UP ANNUAL GIVING EVENT – HOMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS
The Homes for the Holidays promotion through Slumberland Furniture in Huron wrapped up another program year on Thursday. Rich Bragg of Slumberland in Huron discusses its success. Homes for the Holidays is giving beds and changing lives. …
SECOND HURON SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION DAY OF THE TIGER – FRIDAY DECEMBER 13TH
The second Day of the Tiger, an opportunity to contribute funds to be used for scholarships and other programs is Friday. It is run by the Huron School District Foundation. Mary Ann Trandall spoke about the activities planned. [audio …
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- Political instability, dwindling public support and economic constraints are eroding the costly gains that the country made in combating militancy after a ghastly school attack in 2014.
- It was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe.
- The U.S. officials in Damascus are also looking for signs of Austin Tice, a missing American journalist, as well as other U.S. citizens.
- A feminist collective, the Amazons of Avignon, has been plastering the walls of the city with testimony from the trial of the 51 men who were convicted in the Gisèle Pelicot rape case.
- The Israeli military said several people were slightly injured after its air defenses failed to intercept the projectile.
- Years of strife ruined the energy sector, battered the currency and strangled growth. The West must ease financial controls to help the economy, experts say.
- The authorities say at least 160 children and teenagers may have been victims of human trafficking and other crimes on a farm run by an ultra-Orthodox sect, Lev Tahor.
- Video showed a car plowing into a large crowd in the city of Magdeburg. The driver, identified as a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian citizen who worked as a doctor, was arrested.
- Notre Dame quickly grounded Indiana after the high-flying Hoosiers came into the College Football Playoffs with the top scoring offense.
- Kiki Rice scored 20 points and No. 1 UCLA raced out to a big lead on the way to a 70-41 win over Creighton in the Invisalign Bay Area Women's Classic, winning without best player Lauren Betts.
- Cale Makar had a power-play goal and an assist, Parker Kelly scored short-handed and the Colorado Avalanche capitalized on special teams to get a 4-2 win over the Anaheim Ducks.
- Thirty years after Florida required schools to teach African American history, how the subject is taught remains inconsistent across Florida classrooms, a review by The Associated Press has found.
- Farmers in Georgia are still reeling more than two months after Hurricane Helene blew away cotton, destroyed ripened squash and cucumbers and uprooted pecan trees and timber.
- Forget the open-air sleigh overloaded with gifts and powered by a tuckered herd of flying reindeer.
- For Christians around the world, Christmas is the joyful celebration of the birth of Jesus.
- The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century of authoritarian rule.