Brian Walker

Ballet Theatre explores new 'Frontier' and taps traditional 'Coppelia'

Tags: Arts and Culture, Francis Scott Key, Music, War of 1812, Washington, DC

Comic books, trains on tap at Clark County Public Library

Clark County Public Library Adult Services Librarian

There are two new displays in the Clark County Public Library foyer this month. Stop by and take a look at them next time you drop by. On the right side of the foyer is a display of comics from days when comics were actually comic, funny, instead of...

Tags: Arts and Culture, Libraries, Cartoons, World War II (1939-1945), Entertainment

Remains of American ambassador, three others killed in Libya bombing arrive in U.S.

The remains of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans landed on U.S. soil Friday afternoon in flag-draped caskets. The four men were killed in an attack this week on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Teams of seven Marines...

Tags: Benghazi, Islam, Justice and Rights, International Criminal Court, Police Arrests

Protesters attack U.S. diplomatic compounds in Egypt, Libya

Angry protesters attacked U.S. diplomatic compounds in Libya and Egypt on Tuesday, citing in both instances an online film considered offensive to Islam. In Cairo, several men scaled the walls of the U.S. Embassy and tore down its American flag,...

Tags: Islam, Cairo (Egypt), Jihad, Government, Religion and Belief

Protests turn violent outside U.S. Embassies in Egypt, Yemen

Riot police fired warning shots and tear gas early Thursday outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to keep hundreds of protesters, while demonstrators in the Yemeni capital city of Sana'a breached a wall at the American mission, witnesses and government...

Tags: Benghazi, Islam, Judges, Sana'a (Yemen), Riots

The Latest, and Least Worthy, Comic Strip Controversy at the Hartford Courant

There’s been a spirited debate in the letters section of the Hartford Courant this past week. Elaine Kaufmann from West Hartford started it off in Independence Day with this shot across the bow: “Perhaps I do not have the necessary sense of...

Tags: Haddam, Apple iPhone, Cartoons, Newspaper and Magazine, West Hartford

Obituary: S.C. Reed

MORELAND — S.C. Reed, 85, of Casey County, died Wednesday, May 23, 2012.    Born Dec. 19, 1926, he was the son of the late Roscoe and Dillie Peyton Reed. He was a farmer, and had owned and operated a saw mill. He loved gardening and playing music,...

Army Sgt. Brian L. Walker, Lucerne Valley; killed in Afghanistan

Ashley Caswell had never been a believer in love at first sight. Then she met Army Sgt. Brian L. Walker, a fellow military policeman at Ft. Bragg, N.C., who hailed from Lucerne Valley, Calif. "He had me at 'hello,'" she said. Like her, he had blond hair...

Tags: Emergency Incidents, Deere and Company, Pakistan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Obituaries

JBER Honors Three Fallen Soldiers

Channel 2 News

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson hosted a memorial service Thursday for three of its soldiers who were killed last month in two separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Thomas Fogarty was from California. He died when his Mine-Resistant Ambush-...

Tags: Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Bombings

Largest one-day effort to "Stamp Out Hunger"

Letter carriers across Wichita and surrounding communities will collect non-perishable food donations this Saturday, May 12, as they deliver mail along their postal routes in the nation’s largest one-day effort to “Stamp Out Hunger”....

Tags: Charity, Human Interest

Soldier from California killed in Afghanistan

Flour donation to help hungry Kansans

KWCH 12 Eyewitness News

The Kansas Foodbank is handing out bags of flour to those in need because of a major donation.  Horizon Milling and Kroger donated more than 180,000 two-pound bags of flour to Feeding America agencies in six states. The wheat used to produce the flour...

Tags: Charity, Human Interest