WARREN — On the same day that the Warren Civil Service Commission approved a request from the city administration to schedule a promotional exam for a new police chief, the commission heard a plea from the former chief to rescind his resignation. Former police Chief Eric Merkel said his ...
LIBERTY — Seniors and caregivers compared home healthcare services, active adult retirement communities, long-term care and assisted living, and learned about veteran benefits, technology assistance, free health screenings, and other area senior organizations and services at the Metroplex ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dolly Parton’s longtime creative director, Steve Summers, designed hundreds of dresses and outfits for the late singer and entertainer every year, so he saw her in many stages of her career. “Every person in here has a different Dolly Parton that they are in love with,” Summers told a crowd of fans gathered Tuesday for the opening of a new museum in Nashville dedicated to the beloved singer who died in August at age 80. The 20,000-square-foot Dolly’s Life of Many Colors Museum includes exhibits focused on many different aspects of her life and ...
LONDON (AP) — The axe wielded by Jack Nicholson in the horror film “The Shining” and a prop infant that appeared in the final scene of “2001: A Space Odyssey” are among items for sale in an auction of director Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive, auction house Bonhams said Tuesday. Other highlights include Kubrick’s director’s chair, the matching blue dresses worn by the twin girls in “The Shining,” costumes used in “Eyes Wide Shut” and Kubrick’s annotated scripts for several of his films, Bonhams said. “We are proud to be able to share with you some of the ...
A pair of kittens gazed up through the aquarium’s shimmering blue waters as a (relatively) enormous fish passed overhead. One kitten stared transfixed through the glass while the other, unfazed, was more interested in darting around playfully. Inside a clear dome, a kitten named Turkey Leg stood up on its back legs as brightly colored clownfish — think “Finding Nemo” — darted just inches from its whiskers. Raising a paw, it batted at the glass, mewing. For nearly two hours, about two dozen rescue kittens with names like Lottie Dottie, Bendy Wendy and Mouth Trap romped ...
WARREN — On the same day that the Warren Civil Service Commission approved a request from the city administration to schedule a promotional exam for a new police chief, the commission heard a plea from the former chief to rescind his resignation. Former police chief Eric Merkel said his resignation was forced and handled improperly, but the commission refused by a 3-0 vote to rescind the resignation. When Commission Member Dan Letson., an attorney, invited Merkel to discuss his reasons for asking for the resignation to be rescinded, Merkel first noted that he had not been notified ...
