Three major events happened this week. We got to spend time with our youngest son and his family at Gatlinburg, Tennessee. We shared a condo and got to hug all four grandchildren including our son and daughter-in-law. Thanks to the pandemic we appreciate hugs even more now. Since we were all ...

At any given moment, we can share our thoughts, questions or concerns with friends and loved ones — or the entire world — on social media. So why not share them with our fellow newspaper readers? For the most part, we are news junkies. Regardless of how or where we get our news, we ...

This year is a unique year for me. For those of you who have read my Father’s Day columns over the past 20 years plus, you know that I say that almost every year. First, it was unique because my father and my grandfather died, making me the oldest male in my immediate family. Then it ...

I traveled to Eastern Europe last week with a small, bipartisan group of senators to meet with the leaders of Ukraine, Lithuania and Georgia. These former Soviet republics have become reliable U.S. allies as their citizens have sought a democratic future with greater freedom and prosperity. But ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear on Friday declared his state’s fight against COVID-19 a “success story” as he ended most pandemic restrictions, and said his state lessened the crisis because residents put science ahead of politics. The Democratic governor, who ...

On June 12, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed into law the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, allowing women to serve as permanent members of the U.S. Armed Forces. As a result of President Truman’s historic action, the number of women serving has grown exponentially annually ...