Gunman 'was seeking out,' ambushed 6 Baton Rouge officers BATON ROUGE, La. — A former Marine dressed in black and carrying extra ammunition ambushed police in Baton Rouge, shooting and killing three law enforcement officers less than two weeks after a black man was fatally shot by police there in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests that r…
Charles Krauthammer: Resisting the revisionists: Finally, a first step WASHINGTON — "The most significant reinforcement of our collective defense any time since the Cold War," President Barack Obama called it. A bit of an exaggeration, perhaps, but it was still an achievement: Last week's NATO summit in Warsaw ordered the deployment of troops to Eastern Europe,…
Little league: B-B National forces final game After falling behind to the Manteno early Friday, Bradley Bourbonnais-National came back to win 7-3 and force a final game to decide the winners of the 11- and 12-year-old District 18 Tournament championship at Beckman Park.
+3 Southern, corn comfort food I doubt that any of us can remember the first time we ate a piece of cornbread. It is a fairly ubiquitous feature of the American diet, especially in the South. We Midwesterners ate our fair share of it, too. We always had it in the fall and early winter, to serve with chili, soups and stews.
