WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office has denied a request to have the late Rev. Jesse Jackson lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda due to precedents that such honors are usually only designated for presidents. Johnson’s office said it received a request from the family to have Jackson’s remains lie in honor at the Capitol. The Jackson family has announced scheduled dates for memorial services.
CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. - Feb. 22, 1927: Longtime Agriculture Commissioner Gus R. Douglass was born in Mason County. Douglass, a Democrat, was first elected commissioner in 1964. Re-elected nine times, Douglass was the longest serving agricultural commissioner in the country. - Feb. 22, 2018: 33,000 schoolteachers and service personnel walked off the job over wages and health benefits. The strike drew national attention, and teachers in ...
MILAN (AP) — Zach Werenski and his U.S. teammates tried not to look ahead at a potential gold-medal game against Canada at the Olympics. After each went unbeaten in group play, there was no way the North American rivals could meet before the final, but there was work left to do. After routing Slovakia 6-2 in the semifinals on Friday night, the much-anticipated but never guaranteed U.S.-Canada showdown for gold is on. “It’s the matchup everyone wanted,” Werenski said after his three-assist performance against Slovakia. “Now that it’s finally here, we can kind of shift our ...
Rarely do people stumble into their meaningful goals and values. Beautiful ideals are more commonly hard-won. Dreams demand their sacrifice, and that’s the theme of this conjunction of Saturn and Neptune. The hard work you put in only makes the outcome sweeter, giving form to what once lived only in longing. ARIES (March 21-April 19). It used to feel weird to witness the one who seemed to have it all and act like you weren’t inwardly comparing yourself. Now you’ll notice you’re over it. You actually enjoy the inspiration. It sparks ideas. You try things. TAURUS (April 20-May ...
Don’t pick at the produce please Dear Heloise: I frequently see fellow shoppers in the grocery store produce section who snatch and eat bits of items there — grapes, cherries, blueberries, blackberries, little peppers, and even a small apple one day. While individual instances are miniscule, this “grazing” over time can have a significant impact on inventory costs, which jacks up the prices that we all pay. Oh, by the way, it is also shoplifting ... theft ... stealing. Don’t do it. — Jim R., in Houston Jim, it’s also unsanitary. You never know how many unwashed hands ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A biography of James Baldwin, a deep and personal probe into the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a revelatory history of the American West inspired by a 19th century photograph are among this year’s finalists for prizes established in honor of the late investigative journalist J. Anthony Lukas. The finalists in three categories were announced Thursday by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, which oversee the Lukas Prize Project. Danielle Leavitt’s “By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the ...