It proved to be scheduled business as usual Tuesday for the Custer County commissioners at the courthouse in Arapaho, but one nonagenda item drew praise from the commissioners and Custer County Clerk Melissa Graham.
In 1781, 44 Spanish settlers founded El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula, now known as Los Angeles.
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FRIDAY DAY SHIFT Performed a welfare check in the area of 10th St. and I-40.
Responded to a report of a subject lying on side of roadway on U.S. Highway 183 and State Highway 33, eastbound.
Packing meals
NEW YORK (AP) — Five people were shot Monday at New York City’s West Indian American Day Parade, police said. It’s the latest instance of violence marring one of the world’s largest annual celebrations of Caribbean culture.
The Arapaho-Butler chapter of the Future Farmers of America (FFA) has recently announced its new slate of officers for the upcoming year.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Salvagers abandoned an effort to tow away a burning oil tanker in the Red Sea targeted by Yemen’s Houthi rebels as it “was not safe to proceed,” a European Union naval mission said Tuesday.
HELSINKI (AP) — A white beluga whale named “Hvaldimir,” first spotted in Norway not far from Russian waters with a harness that ignited rumors he may be a Moscow spy, has been found dead.