SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW
If those ads with Nicole Kidman being wowed by the movies haven’t enticed you back into a theater yet, then a summer movie season packed with Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Elvis, Thor and a heap of dinosaurs should do the trick.
May 2022
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Lady Tigers advance with 15-4 win over Mineral Wells
MINERAL WELLS — The Glen Rose Lady Tigers are moving on. The Lady Tigers pounded out 21 base hits — including three apiece from Callyn Miller, Kaycee Bock, Addison Nance and Reese Waits — en route to a 15-4 win over Mineral Wells last Thursday night to advance to the Area round of the Class 4A softball playoffs.
Saturday is election day for school board positions
GLEN ROSE — Voters will head to the polls on Saturday to fill two positions on the Glen Rose ISD school board. Current trustees Jason Evans, who is the secretary, and Tanya Evans are running for re-election, and Ellen Blair and David English are also running.
NATION & WORLD WATCH
Oath Keeper from NC pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy A North Carolina man pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring with other members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group to forcefully halt the peaceful transfer of power after President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. William Todd Wilson, 44, of Newton Grove, North Carolina, is the third Oath Keepers member to plead guilty to a seditious conspiracy charge stemming from the Jan.
Cartel head extradited to US for trials
BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia extradited the alleged head of the feared Gulf Clan, who had been the country’s most wanted drug lord before his capture, to the United States Wednesday where he faces indictments in three federal courts.
WHO: COVID-19 has killed about 15M
LONDON – The World Health Organization estimates that about 15 million people were killed either by coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Donors pledge $6.5B for Ukraine
WARSAW, Poland – War-ravaged Ukraine received pledges for $6.5 billion more in humanitarian aid Thursday at an international donors’ conference in Warsaw that sought to get Ukrainians urgent help while still planning for the country’s postwar reconstruction.
Next abortion battle will target medications
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – It took two trips over state lines, navigating icy roads and a patchwork of state laws, for a 32-year-old South Dakota woman to get abortion pills last year.
Merl Weldon Mitchell
Merl Weldon Mitchell passed away peacefully and with dignity on April 28, 2022, at the age of 95, in Fort Worth, Texas. He was born April 21, 1927, in Somervell County, Texas, to John Edward Mitchell and Carrie Mae Newman Mitchell.
Clinton Leon Joplin
Clinton Leon Joplin, 82, passed away April 28, 2022 Graveside Service was 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at Ryan Cemetery, Ryan, Oklahoma.