OGDEN, Utah (AP) - A dog has been reunited with a Utah family, two years after it went missing in Lexington, Kentucky.
Jennifer Lowe of Ogden says her family was thrilled to learn the Beagle mix named Tilly was found in Lexington days ago and identified through an implanted microchip with information about the animal’s owners.
She told KUTV-TV of Salt Lake City (https://bit.ly/1OVRLf5https://bit.ly/1OVRLf5 ) the family thought they would never see Tilly again after they moved from Lexington to Ogden.
After the dog wandered away in 2013, nobody turned Tilly in to an animal control center. But after the beagle recently got loose again, someone took her to a facility where she was identified.
Christine Stoops of the Facebook group “Lost and Found Pets of Lexington, KY” drove to Utah with Tilly and gave her to the Ogden family on Friday.
The dog was a gift to Lowe’s daughter, Phoenix, after her father returned from military duty in Afghanistan.
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MARION, Ark. (AP) - What remains of the greatest maritime disaster in U.S. history lies buried beneath an Arkansas beanfield where the Mississippi River once ran.
A century-and-a-half later, residents of the nearest town and descendants of passengers aboard the steamboat Sultana are gathering to commemorate a disaster that was overshadowed by Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
Along Highway 55 entering Marion, Arkansas, a small banner welcomes the descendants arriving for Monday’s anniversary. Workers are feverishly restoring a mural depicting the steamboat as they seek to give the disaster its place in history.
The Sultana blew up on April 27, 1865, about seven miles north of Memphis, Tennessee, claiming as many as 1,800 lives, according to historical estimates. The Titanic claimed fewer - 1,517 - when it sank 45 years later.
But the momentous events of April 1865 - Lincoln’s death and Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender among them - all but eclipsed the tragedy on the Mississippi.
That month, thousands of Union prisoners newly freed in the South were being sent back north on steamboats. The Sultana was carrying six times its capacity with almost 2,500 people, among them many emaciated, injured or sick Union veterans.
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FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - A school in a small interior Alaska village will send two archers to a national tournament in Kentucky.
The village of Ruby doesn’t have enough students for a basketball team, but it is sending two girls to from the Merreline A. Kangas School to the championships of the National Archery in the Schools Program, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (https://bit.ly/1HJeRGJhttps://bit.ly/1HJeRGJ reported.
Fundraisers and donations raised $5,000 to send fifth-grader Trinity Sarten and middle school student Cheyanne Esmailka to the tournament May 7-9 in Louisville. Trinity also attended last year.
“We get overwhelmed sometimes because we can’t believe it’s really happening,” said Anne Titus, the principal and a teacher for a decade at the school with grades kindergarten through 12, but just 32 students. “Who believed that a little village like ours would be able to do that?”
Ruby is a community of 150 on the Yukon River. Without a lot of bodies for team sports, the school previously tried individual sports such as gymnastics and rifle. None took off like archery, Titus said.
Scotty Starr, who teaches math, science and special education, started the program three years ago. The National Archery in the School Program offered bows at a discount. Students share five compound bows and practice in the school gymnasium.
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COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A northern Kentucky man has been charged with 20 counts of possessing child pornography.
The Kentucky Enquirer (https://cin.ci/1Glyjnq) reports 31-year-old Richard Ray Washington, of Covington, was arrested last week after a search warrant was executed at his home.
According to the attorney general’s office, investigators found computers and other equipment in Washington’s residence that he allegedly used to distribute images and videos of children.
Officials say Washington faces one to five years in prison on each count.
Washington was being held Sunday on $10,000 bond in the Kenton County Detention Center. It’s unclear if he has an attorney.
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