Mariupol city resorting to mass grave amid shelling
MARIUPOL, Ukraine – With bodies piling up in Russia’s nine-day siege of Mariupol, the port city of 430,000 in southeastern Ukraine, local authorities are hurrying to bury the dead in a mass grave.
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3 THINGS TO DO THIS WEEKEND IN SHAWNEE
Visit Star Skate in Shawnee for the Spring Break Late Skate Friday, March 11 from 7-11:59 p.m. There will be prizes and admission is $13.
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Report: Pilot fought to save helicopter before deadly crash NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – The pilot of a police helicopter desperately tried to keep flying before crashing into the ocean off Southern California last month, killing another officer, investigators said in a preliminary report Wednesday.
55 tons of lettuce fed to Florida’s starving manatees
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – More than 55 tons of lettuce have been fed to starving Florida manatees as part of an experimental program to help the slowmoving marine mammals since their natural food is being destroyed by water pollution, wildlife officials said Wednesday.
Crisis in Ukraine hits food security
DHAKA, Bangladesh – The crisis in Ukraine and Russia, one of the world’s main sources of grain, presents new challenges in securing food supplies on top of a prolonged pandemic, a U.N. official said Thursday.
Sine Nomine resumes
After a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19 precautions, the Sine Nomine Choral Society of Central Oklahoma, Shawnee’s community choir, is resuming rehearsals. The choir will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, March 14, in the choir room of the First Baptist Church, 10th and Union, in Shawnee.
Safe burning now more difficult
DECKERS, Colo. – Dripping flaming fuel as they go, a line of workers slowly descends a steep, snow-covered hillside above central Colorado’s South Platte River, torching piles of woody debris that erupt into flames shooting two stories high.
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Russians keep pressure on Mariupol after hospital attack
MARIUPOL, Ukraine – Civilians trapped inside Mariupol desperately scrounged for food and fuel as Russian forces kept up their bombardment of the port city Thursday amid international condemnation over an airstrike a day earlier that killed three people at a maternity hospital.
Texas flagged 27,000 mail ballots
AUSTIN, Texas – More than 27,000 mail ballots in Texas were flagged for rejection in the first test of new voting restrictions enacted across the U.S., jeopardizing votes cast by Democrats and Republicans in counties big and small, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.