Archive for January, 2009

A church seems a highly unlikely place for a murder, but that’s what occurred at the White Oak Church at the edge of Bailey’s Prairie in April of 1888.

Dr. Peter Brown has a secret: He’s really Pietro “Bearclaw” Brnwa, former mob hit man, now in WITSEC, the Federal Witness Protection Program. Toiling unhappily at a lousy New York hospital, Bearclaw wants to put his past behind him — a task that is impossible when a patient recognizes him and drops a dime to the Locano crime family.

Kwame Anthony Appiah is descended on his mother’s side from the English landed gentry, and his father was a prominent Ghanaian politician. Appiah, a Princeton University philosophy professor, will discuss his latest book, “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time),” which urges an “ethical universal” that bridges differences in society, at Phillips Academy on Friday …

Acton’s Project Wellness is seeking donations to stay afloat this year. Project Wellness, an annual daylong event scheduled for March 18 for seventh-graders and parents, uses workshops and discussions to raise awareness about various issues facing teens, including stress, substance abuse, nutrition, and communication. Craig Hardimon, principal of R. J. Grey Regional Junior High School, said the …

Bingo, 6:30 p.m. every Saturday-Sunday; doors open at 4 p.m. Boyd County Fair license no. 721. No extra games. Call 606-928-7190. Boyd County Fairgrounds, 1760 Addington Road, Ashland. Packs are $5 each plus 2 cans of food.

Patience and good eyesight are what you need to finish this 900-page gargantua of Latin American fiction. But it’s well worth persevering: 2666 has the power to mesmerise, and was justifiably hailed as a masterwork on its publication in Spanish in 2004. The author, Roberto Bolaño, had died one year earlier, at the age of 50, while waiting for a liver transplant in a hospital in Spain. His stock …

Trial set in officer shooting case Attorneys will likely be moving forward with trial proceedings against David Garcia, who is charged with the 2003 fatal shooting of a Burbank police officer.

Author Franklin Dohanyos’ second book wasn’t getting the marketing effort he believed it deserved. So the Royal Oak public relations specialist reclaimed rights to his work and is taking his work to the Internet.

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - A couple accused of beating to death the woman’s 2-year-old girl appeared playful and happy at a picnic less than two weeks after the toddler’s death, a witness testified Friday in the mother’s trial.

GALVESTON, Texas — Jurors heard emotional testimony from two grandmothers on Friday in the trial of a woman accused of murdering her 2-year-old girl, KPRC Local 2 reported.