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SHRINE KIDS DAY JULY 25TH AT SPLASH CENTRAL
Shrine Kids Day is Thursday July 25th at Splash Central. Free admission for all kids up to age 18. Free snow cones from 1-5. The main focus of the event is to screen as many kids as possible for …
RAVINEMAN TRIATHLON TO BE HELD SATURDAY JULY 27TH
Ravineman Ravine Lake Triathlon will be held on Saturday, July 27th in Huron. Organizer of the event Kim Rieger said the yearly competition continues to grow in interest. A free kids fun run is part of the …
MIRACLE TREAT DAY THURSDAY JULY 25TH AT DAIRY QUEEN NATIONWIDE
Dairy Queen stores across the country are preparing for their biggest day of the year, Miracle Treat day, on Thursday July 25. Huron Dairy Queen manager Austin Dux bury says they have planning for quite some time. …
UNITED WAY HOSTING KARAOKE CONTEST TO BOOST START OF CAMPAIGN
The Heartland Region United Way is participating with the city wide clean up in August. The Day of Caring on August 13 will be used in part for volunteers from the United Way to assist with the clean up …
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- The sprawling ceremony is being held under rainy skies. Earlier, coordinated arson attacks disrupted service on three high-speed links to Paris, causing delays affecting more than a million travelers.
- Most soccer fans long ago internalized the idea that truth is a slippery concept.
- The arson attacks were carefully planned to cause maximum disruption on a train network so vast it is virtually impossible to fully secure.
- Blazes that generate such stormy conditions can be nearly impossible to put out and pose special dangers to firefighters.
- The N.B.A. star LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers and the tennis star Coco Gauff were chosen by their peers to lead the United States at the opening ceremony in Paris.
- Gojira, a popular French band, became the first hard rock act to perform in an Olympic Games opening ceremony when it did a metal version of “Ah! Ça Ira,” a song that was popular during the French Revolution.
- The ceremony will also provide a showcase for Aya Nakamura, a French-Malian singer, and a range of musical styles including disco, French hip-hop and zouk from the French Caribbean.
- Fast-moving fires may have destroyed as much as half of the picturesque town of Jasper, Alberta, and have ravaged Jasper National Park.
- A Las Vegas man has been charged with threatening to injure and kill government officials in three states and Washington, D.
- The Seattle Mariners bolstered their bullpen acquiring right-hander Yimi García from Toronto with top prospect Jonatan Clase part of the return going back to the Blue Jays.
- A team of Polish discovered the wreckage of an sailing ship loaded "to the brim" with luxury goods including porcelain items and about 100 bottles of Champagne and mineral water off the Swedish coast.
- Thousands of former college athletes will be eligible for payments ranging from a few dollars to more than a million under the $2.78 billion antitrust settlement agreed to by the NCAA and five power conferences.
- "My ceiling is probably a lot higher than other safeties because I've only been playing safety for two-and-a-half years," Giants safety Jason Pinnock said.
- Argentine President Javier Milei and French President Emmanuel Macron have met in Paris where they appeared to put aside recent controversy stemming from their countries' fierce soccer rivalry.
- Automatic external defibrillators, or AEDs, must be placed in nearly every school or sports and recreation venue in Ohio under a bill signed this week by Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine.
- New Orleans Saints reserve quarterback Jake Haener is balancing a recent skin cancer diagnosis with his effort to secure a job backing up starter Derek Carr.