Macomb, Ill., the community my wife and I called home from 2003-2009, was rocked today by a shooting and subsequent hostage situation inside Farm King, a local farm supply retailer. A nearly six-hour standoff ensued, ending only when the gunman – a 19 year-old male – killed himself.
Ordinarily I wouldn’t mention an incident like this [...]
The year was 1987, and I was just beginning the 5th grade when I visited Six Flags St. Louis for the first time. It was a family trip, with my mom, dad, brother, and several aunts and cousins going along.
Prior to this day, I had been to a few carnivals and town fairs and ridden the Ferris Wheel, spinning saucers [...]
The big news in the religious world today was the passing or famous televangelist Oral Roberts, the founder of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla. Roberts was 91 years old and living in Newport Beach, Calif. at the time of his death.
There will be many opinions voiced about Roberts in the coming days, but one [...]
An eight-foot boa constrictor recently escaped from its owner’s home on South 24th Street here in Quincy. City residents were understandably nervous as the days dragged on with no sign of the snake.
Then yesterday afternoon (Sunday, July 19), my sister-in-law, Haley Deming, 21, and her cousin, Taylor Stark, 17, decided to take the dog [...]
I signed up for a Twitter account at the beginning of June, and since then I’ve been Twittering my life away. Actually the verb is “tweeting,” as Twitter updates are officially called “tweets.” You can read my updates in the column on the right side of this page, but you’ve probably already figured that out.
Twitter [...]
