(AP) — The killing of Sonya Massey in her home by an Illinois sheri_’s deputy was pursued by prosecutors as a first-degree murder case with a possible life prison sentence. Then the judge gave the jury another option when deliberations began this week.

(AP) — The Trump administration has restored a memorial to a Confederate general in Washington, D.C. that demonstrators took down during racial justice protests in the summer of 2020, part of a broader effort by the president to reshape the way the country’s history is told.

In 1800, John Adams became the first president to reside in the newly constructed “President’s House” (later named the White House).

Ralph Edward Jones Jr., 44, of Clinton, has been arrested following an exchange that led to an alleged assault.

Feeling her age

Arapaho-Butler fifth-grader Whitlee Wall reflects on the “good old days” while wearing her old woman outfit for “Red Ribbon Week.”

Clinton Public Schools and Western Technology Center (WTC) recently celebrated the anniversary of a partnership that has been in place for the past 55 years, with plans for many more on the horizon.

Two civil lawsuits – one currently at the federal level and the other at the county – are in play against the outfit and its associates that had failed to purchase and manage Clinton Regional Hospital.

Embellishment

Wyatt Weil helps decorate the First Christian Church’s trunk spot in front of the Chi Alpha Student Ministry Building on Frisco Avenue during the Clinton Chamber of Commerce’s “Trunk or Treat” celebration Thursday evening. Pictures from the Clinton Kiwanis Club’s costume contest are on page 9.

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