COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Please send items for the calendar to Elisabeth Slay, eslay@news-star.com and/or newsroom@newsstar.com. March 17 'The Shawnee Ministerial Association (SMA) bringing back the Community Ecumenical Lenten Worship Series.
Please send items for the calendar to Elisabeth Slay, eslay@news-star.com and/or newsroom@newsstar.com. March 17 'The Shawnee Ministerial Association (SMA) bringing back the Community Ecumenical Lenten Worship Series.
NEW YORK – Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is planning trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Illinois, is considering a rough timeline for a potential presidential announcement. And allies of Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, are openly talking up her White House prospects.
Five Seminole State College Language Arts and Humanities faculty members had papers selected for the 2022 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The conference ran from Feb. 23 to Feb. 26.
OBU’s social club, Lambda Chi Lambda, recently helped move former library books to a local storage facility where books are stored for the Shawnee Public Library’s book sale. The next Friends of Shawnee Library Book Sale will be held in fall of 2022.
The Orlando Police Department was among more than 200 law enforcement agencies to join a training program designed to improve police culture and prevent misconduct. Last month, Orlando became the first department to get kicked out of the program, developed by Georgetown Law’s Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement, or ABLE, project.
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. – Plans to take down a memorial at the suburban Minneapolis intersection where Daunte Wright was fatally shot by a police officer are on hold after his family complained.
TAIPEI, Taiwan – China banned most people from leaving a coronavirus-hit northeastern province and mobilized military reservists Monday as the fastspreading “stealth omicron” variant fuels the country’s biggest outbreak since the start of the pandemic two years ago.
PRZEMYSL, Poland – As Russia’s war in Ukraine becomes a grim new reality for millions of Ukrainians, the tens of thousands who make the increasingly treacherous journey toward safety in the European Union each day are left with no sense of when – or if – they’ll ever return home.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The trial for four men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that was scheduled to resume Monday has been postponed at least until Thursday because an essential participant tested positive for the coronavirus.
The Pottawatomie County Board of County Commissioners, during a meeting Thursday, approved the Economic Development Oversight Committee's funding of about $68,000 for a railway project for Bison Metals Technologies.