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JONES RECOGNIZED FOR YEARS OF VOLUNTEERING
At Monday nights Huron City Commission meeting Mayor Mark Robish mentioned the work of volunteers in various capacities and the work to improve the community. One Huron resident was recognized for 31 years of volunteer work as we hear …
HURON SCHOOL DISTRICT ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR ADDITION TO HIGH SCHOOL
The Huron School district has been working on expanding Career and Technical education classes for several years. One of the challenges was to identify course offerings to add to those already in place according to John Halbkat, director of …
STEINHOFF RECOGNIZES DISTRICT EMPLOYEES OF THE YEAR
The final Huron School Board meeting for the current year Superintendent Dr Kraig Steinhoff celebrated the successes in the district with a recognition of the employees of the year. Steinhoff also credited students, staff and law enforcement …
WEINREIS RECOGNIZES NATIONAL POLICE WEEK
At the monday night Huron city commission meeting Drew Weinreis took time to recognize National Police Week. During the public forum Drew reminds residents to keep grass cut.
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- Little humanitarian aid has entered Gaza since Israeli troops moved into Rafah last week.
- Ukraine said it was slowing Russia’s push near Kharkiv, where the president met with top commanders, but still faced pitched battles in that area and farther south.
- Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot five times and has undergone emergency surgery. His condition remains serious, officials said.
- The authorities did not identify the suspect in the shooting of Prime Minister Robert Fico but described him as a “lone wolf.” Politicians called for calm as Mr. Fico’s condition appeared to stabilize.
- South Africa was expected to ask the court to order Israel to immediately withdraw from the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians had sought shelter from the war.
- Also, Antony Blinken visited Kyiv and President Biden announced new Chinese tariffs.
- The men were killed as they were fighting in a dense area, a spokesman said, adding that the incident was “under review.”
- At a summit with China’s leader, in Beijing, the Russian president called for stronger economic ties between the countries, as he intensifies his war effort.
- Police have dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday at DePaul University in Chicago, hours after the school's president told students to leave the area or face arrest.
- Tim Tenenboym was driving a Ford Mustang when he lost control and hit a tree.
- Police in Nigeria say at least eight worshippers were killed and 16 others injured in northern Nigeria's Kano state after a man with a locally made explosive attacked the mosque where they were praying early Wednesday morning.
- President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur at the center a Republican effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress.
- The 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to replace the Catholic Church as the guiding force in the lives of Cubans.
- The PGA Championship is underway after a 10-minute delay from fog.
- A U.S. Navy strike group's flagship aircraft carrier has left its Japanese home port, wrapping up nearly nine years of deployment in the Indo-Pacific, where it served a key role in the U.S. effort to bolster defense ties with Japan and other partners in the region.
- Mortgage rates have been mostly ticking higher lately, but it's not all bad news for home shoppers.