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CongratulationsMr. & Mrs. Greg and Lindsay Zellner

Married September 29, 2018

CongratulationsMr. & Mrs. Ronnie & Brittani Oates

Married November 10, 2018

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Recently born at Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay, as reported by their parents:

• Ayla Ember Conley, girl, Daniel and Bekah Conley, Findlay, Nov. 20.• Rylee Jean Fletcher, girl, James Fletcher and Demra Schmehl, Arlington,

Nov. 20.• Elliot Richard Lawrence, boy, Michael Paul Lawrence and Cristina Ann

Lawrence, Findlay, Nov. 21.• Daisy Jean Miel Koontz, girl, Joshua and Chimere Koontz, Findlay, Nov.

21.• Carter Rey Palmer, boy, Dylan Palmer and Cierra Camareno, Ottawa,

Nov. 21.• Brynlee Rae McLaughlin, girl, Scott and Amber McLaughlin, Findlay,

Nov. 23.• Alec Joseph Mathias, boy, Kiel and Jana Mathias, Alvada, Nov. 23.• Nollie Rae Nelson, girl, Chae Nelson and Morgan Bretz, Findlay, Nov. 24.• Brynlee Isabella Hart, girl, David A. and Elisha B. Hart, Findlay, Nov. 24.• Jaxon Anthony and Jace Anthony Heller, boys, Anthony Heller and Amber

Feasel, McComb, Nov. 26.• Zia Aurora Salinas, girl, Raul Salinas and Lila Lenz, Deshler, Nov. 26.• Aaron Caleb Astle, boy, Caleb B. and Tiffinee A. Astle, McComb, Nov. 26.• Hayes Joseph Trout, boy, Joe and Erin Trout, Arcadia, Nov. 26.• Jackson David Miller, boy, Mark and Krista Miller, Findlay, Nov. 26.

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Best-selling books the week ended Nov. 25, according to the Wall Street Journal.

FICTION 1. “The Meltdown (Diary of a

Wimpy Kid 13)” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books)

2. “Paw Patrol 5-Minute Stories Col-lection” by Random House (Random House Books for Young Readers)

3. “Trolls 5-Minute Stories” by Random House (Random House Books for Young Readers)

4. “Fire & Blood” by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)

5. “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald — the Original Screen-play” by J.K. Rowling (Arthur A. Levine)

6. “Target: Alex Cross” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

7. “Look Alive Twenty-Five (Stepha-nie Plum)” by Janet Evanovich (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

8. “Every Breath” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

9. “The Reckoning” by John Grisham (Doubleday)

10. “Long Road to Mercy (Atlee Pine)” by David Baldacci (Grand Cen-tral Publishing)

NONFICTION 1. “Becoming” by Michelle Obama

(Crown) 2. “Homebody” by Joanna Gaines

(Harper Design) 3. “Girl, Wash Your Face” by Rachel

Hollis (Thomas Nelson) 4. “Magnolia Table” by Joanna

Gaines (William Morrow) 5. “Whose Boat is This Boat?” by

The Late Show Staff with Stephen Col-

The best-sellers list

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The remains of a New York pilot killed during World War II are the first of the 27 Tuskegee Airmen listed as missing in action to be identified, the Pentagon announced Thursday.

The Defense POW/MIA Account-ing Agency, the agency charged with recovering and identifying the nation’s war dead, said the remains accounted for earlier this year are those of Law-rence Dickson of Manhattan. Dickson was killed in a crash in Europe 74 years ago next month.

Dickson was a 24-year-old captain in the 100th Fighter Squadron when he took off in his P-51 Mustang fighter plane from a base in Italy to conduct an aerial reconnaissance mission on Dec. 23, 1944. During the return flight, Dickson’s engine failed and his plane was seen crashing along the Italy-Aus-tria border, the Pentagon said.

Searches for the crash site were unsuccessful, and in 1949, the U.S. military declared his remains non-recoverable.

In 2012, an American recovery team found the crash site in Austria after receiving information from an Austrian

researcher. The team found wreckage matching Dickson’s type of fighter.

Excavations conducted over four weeks in the summer of 2017 by the University of New Orleans and Austria’s University of Innsbruck resulted in the recovery of human remains.

The skeletal remains were later identified as Dickson’s through DNA samples provided by his daughter, Marla Andrews, of East Orange, New Jersey, and another relative.

“I was spaced out,” Andrews said Thursday as she recalled her feelings last year when the Pentagon told her progress had been made in her father’s MIA case. Last summer, the Pentagon gave Andrews and her relatives an offi-cial confirmation.

“A lot of things have to come together for something like this to work,” Andrews told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from her home.

Andrews was 2 years old when her mother received notification that her husband was missing in action. She was born in a hospital in Harlem, where Phyllis and Lawrence Dickson were living when he enlisted in the Army.

A South Carolina native who loved music and played the electric guitar, Lawrence Dickson was sent to Tuske-gee, Alabama, for training in a newly formed African-American air squadron. The storied Tuskegee Airmen would shatter aviation and racial barriers during World War II.

Qualifying as a pilot, Dickson flew with the 332nd Fighter Group’s 100th Fighter Squadron, known as the “Red Tails” for the color of their aircrafts’ tails.

Sixty-six Tuskegee Airmen died in combat, including 27 who were listed as MIA when the war ended.

Dickson was the first of those 27 to be identified, a DPAA spokesman said.

Among the items recovered from the crash scene was part of a harmon-ica Dickson carried with him during flights.

“Little things like that have been quite comforting,” Andrews said.

Phyllis Dickson died last December at 96 in Nevada, her daughter said.

Lawrence Dickson will be buried March 22 with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.

Pentagon IDs remains of Tuskegee Airman killed in WWII

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Today is Tuesday, Dec. 4, the 338th day of 2018. There are 27 days left in the year.

Today’s highlights in history: On Dec. 4, 1783, Gen. George

Washington bade farewell to his Continental Army officers at Fraun-ces Tavern in New York.

On this date: In 1619, a group of settlers from

Bristol, England, arrived at Berke-ley Hundred in present-day Charles City County, Virginia, where they held a service thanking God for their safe arrival.

In 1867, the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, also known as The Grange, was founded in Washington, D.C., to promote the interests of farmers.

In 1875, William Marcy Tweed, the “Boss” of New York City’s Tammany Hall political organiza-tion, escaped from jail and fled the country.

In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson left Washington on a trip to France to attend the Versailles Peace Conference.

In 1942, during World War II,

U.S. bombers struck the Italian mainland for the first time with a raid on Naples. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the disman-tling of the Works Progress Admin-istration, which had been created to provide jobs during the Depression.

In 1945, the Senate approved U.S. participation in the United Nations by a vote of 65-7.

In 1965, the United States launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Cmdr. James A. Lovell aboard on a two-week mission. (While Gemini 7 was in orbit, its sister ship, Gemini 6A, was launched on Dec. 15 on a one-day mission; the two spacecraft were able to rendezvous within a foot of each other.)

In 1978, San Francisco got its first female mayor as City Super-visor Dianne Feinstein was named to replace the assassinated George Moscone.

In 1991, Associated Press corre-spondent Terry Anderson, the lon-gest held of the Western hostages in Lebanon, was released after nearly seven years in captivity. The origi-nal Pan American World Airways ceased operations.

In 1995, the first NATO troops landed in the Balkans to begin set-ting up a peace mission that brought American soldiers into the middle of the Bosnian conflict.

In 1996, the Mars Pathfinder lifted off from Cape Canaveral and began speeding toward the red planet on a 310 million-mile odys-sey. (It arrived on Mars in July 1997.)

In 2000, in a pair of legal set-backs for Al Gore, a Florida state judge refused to overturn George W. Bush’s certified victory in Flor-ida and the U.S. Supreme Court set aside a ruling that had allowed manual recounts.

Ten years ago: U.S. automakers drew fresh

skepticism from lawmakers during a Senate Banking Committee hear-ing over their pleas for an expanded $34 billion rescue package they said was needed for them to survive.

For the first time, an NFL game was broadcast live in 3-D to the-aters in Boston, New York and Los Angeles. (Although the telecast was marred by technical glitches, fans were mostly forgiving as they watched the San Diego Chargers beat the Oakland Raiders 34-7.)

Five years ago: A senior commander in the

militant group Hezbollah, Hassan al-Laqis, was shot dead outside his

home in Lebanon, the latest in a series of attacks against the Iranian-backed organization, which accused Israel of the attack.

Oscar De La Hoya was selected for induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame; two of his contemporaries in the modern era — Puerto Rican star Felix “Tito” Trinidad and Joe Calzaghe of Wales — were also selected.

One year ago: Declaring that “public lands will

once again be for public use,” Presi-dent Donald Trump scaled back two sprawling national monuments in Utah; it was the first time in a half century that a president had undone that type of land protection.

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to fully enforce a ban on travel to the United States by residents of six mostly Muslim countries.

Trump formally endorsed Repub-lican Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race, looking past sexual misconduct allegations against the GOP candidate.

Thought for today: “A person reveals his character

by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German scientist (1742-1799).

Today in history

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bert (Simon & Schuster) 6. “Elf on the Shelf” (Aabersold/

CCA and B, LLC) 7. “It’s Not Supposed to Be This

Way” by Lysa TerKeurst (Thomas Nelson)

8. “Killing the SS” by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (Henry Holt & Co.)

9. “Guinness World Records 2019” (Guinness World Records)

10. “Cook Like a Pro” by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)

FICTION E-BOOKS 1. “Target: Alex Cross” by James

Patterson (Little, Brown) 2. “Dark Sacred Night” by Michael

Connelly (Little, Brown) 3. “Fire & Blood” by George R.R.

Martin (Bantam) 4. “Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel”

by Lee Child (Transworld Digital) 5. “Beauchamp Hall” by Danielle

Steel (Dell) 6. “The Other Miss Bridgerton” by

Julia Quinn (Avon) 7. “Look Alive Twenty-Five (Stepha-

nie Plum)” by Janet Evanovich (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

8. “The Reckoning” by John Grisham (Doubleday)

9. “Long Road to Mercy (Atlee Pine)” by David Baldacci (Grand Cen-tral Publishing)

10. “Nine Perfect Strangers” by Liane Moriarty (Flatiron Books)

NONFICTION E-BOOKS 1. “Becoming” by Michelle Obama

(Crown) 2. “Factfulness” by Hans Rosling,

Anna Rosling Ronnlund and Osa Rosling (Flatiron Books)

3. “Educated” by Tara Westover (Random House)

4. “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau)

5. “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl (Beacon Press)

6. “The Penguin Lessons” by Tom Michell (Ballantine)

7. “Building a StoryBrand” by Donald Miller (HarperCollins Leadership)

8. “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan Books)

9. “The World of Lore: Dreadful Places” by Aaron Mahnke (Del Rey)

10. “Girl, Wash Your Face” by Rachel Hollis (Thomas Nelson)

NPD BookScan gathers point-of-sale book data from about 16,000 loca-tions across the U.S., representing about 85 percent of the nation’s book sales. Print-book data providers include all major booksellers and web retailers, and food stores. The fiction and nonfiction lists in all formats include both adult and juvenile titles; the business list includes only adult titles. The combined lists track sales by title across all print and e-book formats; audio books are excluded. Refer questions to [email protected].

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NEW YORK (AP) — A training program for the next generation of morticians and undertakers is tes-tament to a change that is slowly remaking the funeral business.

Sixty of the 75 students in the program at the State University of New York Canton are women, and those numbers are no fluke.

In 2017, nearly 65 percent of grad-uates from funeral director programs in the United States were female, according to the American Board of Funeral Service Education. That’s the highest number ever recorded by the board. Women are being drawn in record numbers to the profession.

Women coming out of the SUNY Canton program, though, say that for all the progress, they still encounter barriers. While a majority of people looking to enter the profession are women, 74 percent of morticians and funeral directors are still men, according to 2016 U.S. Census Bureau data.

Stereotypes about women not being strong enough to lift coffins, or worries about exposing pregnant workers to embalming chemicals, make some male funeral home owners reluctant to hire women.

Darien Frederick, 21, who grad-uated from the SUNY Canton pro-gram last year and is now a funeral director at Cleveland Funeral Home in Watertown, New York, said some

customers still have qualms about women.

“I did have a family come in and say they did not want any female funeral directors running their funeral,” Frederick said. “And you can respect those wishes, and that’s fine, and I understand that’s how the older generation was. I’m not hurt by it, but those stigmas are changing.”

Through the early Victorian era, caring for the dead was very much a woman’s role in the U.S.

Death care took place in the home, more often than in institutional set-tings, and preparing a body for burial was a family matter.

That began to change during the Civil War, when embalming fluids allowed families to bring dead sol-diers home from the battlefield. And embalming necessitated a scientific education, from which women were then being systematically excluded. Men quickly came to dominate the new death care industry, as did a false notion that women were too squeamish or emotional to handle death.

Anita Bennet, a student at SUNY Canton, said she sees opportunity in a changing funeral market in which more families are seeking cremation, alternative wakes and natural or non-traditional burials.

Women, she said, are great at helping people deal with grief.

Women make inroads in funeral industry

Mt. Blanchard Celebrates Christmas in the Village

TREE LIGHTING

Riverdale Soundsation sang Christmas carols as the Christmas Tree was lit in Mt. Blanchard Friday night, November 30. On Saturday, December 1, Christmas in the Village featured a live nativity scene, ice sculptures, fi re truck and horse-drawn carriage rides, crafts and food vendors. On Sunday a Home Tour was held, featuring fi ve homes decorated for the holidays.


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Alison Nicole Brousseau and Kyle Raymond Hermiller, both of Troy, Ohio, exchanged wedding vows on July 28, 2018, at The Orrmont Estate. Brent Bowden performed the ceremony.

The bride wore an ivory tulle ball gown with an elegant scroll lace bodice and illusion cap sleeves, fi tted with a satin waistband.

The bridesmaids were in various styles of dusty blue, fl oor length chiffon dresses. The groomsmen wore gray suits and dusty blue ties.

A buffet dinner was served under a white cathedral tent for 140 guests, followed by dancing, and a sparkler send-off.

The bride is the daughter of Kevin and Diane Brousseau of Sterling Heights, Michigan. She is a History teacher at Sidney High School.

The groom is the son of Jerry and Anne Hermiller of Findlay, Ohio. He is an engineer for Honda.

Following a honeymoon to Ireland, the couple resides in Troy, Ohio.

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WEDDING


Celebrity birthdays this week include:

Sunday: Actress Cathy Lee Crosby

(“That’s Incredible”) is 74. Direc-tor Penelope Spheeris (“Wayne’s World,” “The Decline of Western Civilization”) is 73. Country singer John Wesley Ryles is 68. Actor Dan Butler (“Frasier”) is 64. News anchor Stone Phillips is 64. Actor Dennis Christopher (“Breaking Away,” “Chariots of Fire”) is 63. Actor Steven Bauer is 62. Bassist Rick Savage of Def Leppard is 58. Actor Brendan Coyle (“Downton Abbey”) is 55. Bassist Nate Mendel of Foo Fighters is 50. Actress Lucy Liu is 50. Actress Suzy Nakamura (“Dr. Ken”) is 50. Actress Rena Sofer (“24,” “Just Shoot Me”) is 50. Rapper Treach of Naughty By Nature is 48. Joe Lo Truglio (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) is 48. Singer Nelly Furtado is 40. Singer Britney Spears is 37. Singer-actress Jana Kramer is 35. Actress Daniela Ruah (“NCIS: Los Angeles”) is 35. Actor Alfred Enoch (“How to Get Away With Murder”) is 30. Singer Charlie Puth is 27.

Yesterday: Director Jean-Luc Godard is

88. Singer Jaye P. Morgan (“The Gong Show”) is 87. Actress Mary Alice is 77. Singer Ozzy Osbourne is 70. Singer Mickey Thomas of Jefferson Starship is 69. Bassist Paul Gregg of Restless Heart is 64. Actor Steven Culp (“Desperate Housewives”) is 63. Actress Daryl Hannah is 58. Actress Julianne Moore is 58. Actor Brendan Fraser is 50. Singer Montell Jordan is 50. Actor-comedian Royale Watkins is 49. Actor Bruno Campos (“Nip/Tuck,” “Jesse”) is 45. Actress Holly Marie Combs (“Charmed”) is 45. Musician Daniel Bedingfield is 39. Actress Tiffany Haddish is 39. Actress Anna Chlumsky is 38. Actress Jenna Dewan (“The Resident,” “Supergirl”) is 38. Actor Brian Bonsall (“Family Ties”) is 37. Singer-songwriter Andy Grammer is 35. Actress Amanda Seyfried (“Mamma Mia”) is 33. Actor Jake T. Austin (“The Fosters,” “Wizards of Waverly Place”) is 24.

Today: Game-show host Wink Martin-

dale is 85. Singer Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon is 82. Actor-pro-ducer-director Max Baer Jr. (“The Beverly Hillbillies”) is 81. Bassist Bob Mosley of Moby Grape is 76. Singer-bassist Chris Hillman (The Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers) is 74. Singer Southside Johnny Lyon of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes is 70. Actor

Jeff Bridges is 69. Guitarist Gary Rossington (Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Rossington Collins Band) is 67. Actress Patricia Wettig is 67. Drummer Brian Prout of Diamond Rio is 63. Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson is 63. Bassist Bob Griffin (The BoDeans) is 59. Singer Vinnie Dombroski of Sponge is 56. Actress Chelsea Noble (“Growing Pains,” “Kirk”) is 54. Actress Marisa Tomei is 54. Comedian Fred Armisen (“Portlandia,” “Satur-day Night Live”) is 52. Rapper Jay-Z is 49. Actor Kevin Sussman (“Ugly Betty”) is 48. Model Tyra Banks is 45. Country singer Lila McCann is 37. Actor Orlando Brown (“That’s So Raven”) is 31. Actress Scarlett Estevez (“Lucifer”) is 11.

Tomorrow: Singer Little Richard is 86.

Opera singer Jose Carreras is 72. Singer Jim Messina (Loggins and Messina, Poco) is 71. Actress Morgan Brittany (“Dallas”) is 67. Actor Brian Backer (“Fast Times at Ridgemont High”) is 62. Country singer Ty England is 55. Singer-guitarist John Rzeznik of The Goo Goo Dolls is 53. Country singer Gary Allan is 51. Comedian Margaret Cho is 50. Actress Alex Kapp Horner (“The New Adventures of Old Chris-tine”) is 49. Actress Paula Patton (“Precious”) is 43. Actress Amy Acker (“Person of Interest,” “Angel”) is 42. Singer Keri Hilson is 36. Actor Frankie Muniz (“Malcolm in the Middle”) is 33. Actor Ross Bagley (”Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”) is 30.

Thursday: Country singer Helen Cornelius

is 77. Singer Frank Beverly of Maze is 72. Actress JoBeth Williams is 70. Actor Tom Hulce is 65. Actor Kin Shriner is 65. Talk-show host Wil Shriner is 65. Drummer Rick Buckler of The Jam is 63. Country singer Bill Lloyd of Foster and Lloyd is 63. Comedian Steven Wright is 63. Guitarist Peter Buck of R.E.M. is 62. Drummer David Lovering of The Pixies is 57. Guitarist Ben Watt of Everything But The Girl is 56. Actress Janine Turner (“Strong Medicine,” “Northern Exposure”) is 56. Director Judd Apatow (“The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up”) is 51. Keyboardist Ul f “Buddha” Ekberg of Ace of Base is 48. Bassist Jacob Chesnut of Rush of Fools is 29.

Friday: Bluegrass singer Bobby Osborne

of the Osborne Brothers is 87. Actress Ellen Burstyn is 86. Coun-try singer Gary Morris is 70. Singer Tom Waits is 69. Actress Priscilla Barnes (“Three’s Company”) is

61. Announcer Edd Hall (“The Tonight Show With Jay Leno”) is 60. Actor Jeffrey Wright (“West-world”) is 53. Actor C. Thomas Howell is 52. Rapper Kon Artis of D12 is 44. Singer Nicole Appleton of All Saints is 43. Country singer Sunny Sweeney is 42. Actress Shiri Appleby (“Roswell”) is 40. Singer Sara Bareilles is 39. Singer Aaron Carter is 31.

Saturday: Singer Jerry Butler is 79. Drum-

mer Bobby Elliott of The Hollies is 77. Actor John Rubinstein (“Family,” “Crazy Like a Fox”) is 72. Actress Kim Basinger is 65. Guitarist Phil Collen of Def Leppard is 61. Country singer Marty Raybon (The Raybon Brothers, Shenandoah) is 59. Guitarist Marty Friedman (Mega-deth) is 56. Actress Teri Hatcher is 54. Actor David Harewood (“Super-girl,” “Homeland”) is 53. Rapper Bushwick Bill of Geto Boys is 52. Singer Sinead O’Connor is 52. Actor Matthew Laborteaux (“Little House on the Prairie”) is 52. Gui-tarist Ryan Newell of Sister Hazel is 46. Actor Dominic Monaghan (”Lost,” “Lord of the Rings”) is 42. Actor Ian Somerhalder (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Lost”) is 40. Singer Ingrid Michaelson is 39. Country singer Sam Hunt is 34. Singer Kate Voegele (“One Tree Hill”) is 32. Drummer Jen Ledger of Skillet is 29. Actress Wallis Currie-Wood (“Madam Secretary”) is 27.

Happy birthday to all


YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A 27-year-old Colorado man who walked danger-ously close to Old Faithful geyser in September is banned from Yellow-stone National Park and nearby Grand Teton National Park for five years.

Gabriel Villalva of Greeley pleaded guilty Thursday to disorderly conduct and foot traffic on a thermal area in Yellowstone. Magistrate Judge Mark L. Carman sentenced him to five years of probation, during which time he cannot enter the parks.

Tourists captured videos of Vil-lalva standing within a few feet of Old Faithful on Sept. 14.

Five days later, Villalva was arrested in Wyoming’s capital city of Cheyenne after a police chase in which his vehicle caught fire.

Villalva remains jailed on $10,000 cash bond. His attorney in the Chey-enne case, public defender Donald Miller, was not available for comment.

Colorado man pleads guilty to trespassing at Old Faithful

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Lottery won’t have to pay out to dozens of players who thought they won prizes in a holiday scratch-off game with misprinted tickets.

The state lottery cancelled its new Holiday Bonus Bucks game after discov-ering the mistake by International Game Technology, the company that produced the tickets. Lottery officials found that 405 tickets had been sold before the issue was identified within two hours of the game’s opening.

Winner amounts on the misprinted tickets varied from a few dollars to $40,000 prizes, but state law doesn’t legally obligate the Nebraska Lottery to pay prize money for tickets that are produced or issued in error, according to Brian Rockey, state lottery director.

“We’ve never had anything like this, to this degree. It was a real fluke,” Rockey said. “I’m glad we were able to catch it when we did or there would be many more disappointed people.”

Lincoln resident Connie Johnson was one of those first players to purchase and attempt to cash in Holiday Bonus Bucks tickets. She had several $40,000 win-

ning combinations but learned that the tickets had been incorrectly printed.

The Nebraska Lottery is now asking anyone who purchased a Holi-day Bonus Bucks ticket to return the card by March 24. Those who send in the tickets will receive Lottery scratch

coupons in return. Lottery spokesman Neil Watson said 150 of the tickets have been returned. About 80 of those appeared to be winners because of inac-curately printed symbols and 52 others appeared to win larger prizes than the actual amounts tied to the cards, he said.

Nebraska Lottery won’t pay out game’s misprinted tickets



Virtual- and augmented-reality headsets haven’t had much traction in the con-sumer market, but they’re finding a place on the battlefield.

The U.S. Army said that it has awarded Microsoft a $480 million contract to supply its HoloLens headsets to soldiers.

The head-mounted displays use augmented reality, which means viewers can see virtual imagery superimposed over the real-world scenery in front of them. Microsoft says the technology will provide troops with better information to make decisions.

The Redmond, Washington, company says the new work extends its longstand-ing relationship with the Department of Defense.

Military bidding documents say the technology will be used for both training and fighting, bringing more situational awareness to troops to help them become more lethal and mobile.

Army wants Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets for battlefield use

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WinterWinter is comingWith its icy blast.I’ll be really happyWhen winter has passed.

Of course, there’s Thanksgiving.Then Christmas is due.We’ll have plenty of turkeyAnd pumpkin pie, too.

We’ll stay up for New Year’sAnd wishes we’ll make.For a better next yearAnd that’s no mistake.

So, come ahead winter’Cause soon you’ll be gone.Warm sunshine and flowersWill then carry on.

Ellie GustinFindlay

Soup’s OnThe weather was cooland hot soup sounded goodso searched the cupboardas best I could. There in the backand, oft-overlooked, was a dustycan of soup — oh, good!

Supposedly, opening the can was a breezewith an electric opener at my command —but it wasn’t working, so what could I do but look for the hand opener we used to use.

It wasn’t in the drawer where I thought it would be, so my trusty pocket knifewould have to fill in. With old hands working, and a few choice words, an opening appeared so the soup poured into a microwave dish.

In tilting the can all the way up, there on the bottom was a metal pull tab —“What was that for?” I wondered.

Robert Van HornNorth Baltimore

Poetry Corner

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is now closer to the sun than any spacecraft has ever gotten.

On Monday, Parker surpassed the record of 26.6 million miles set

by Helios-2 back in 1976. And it will keep getting closer to the sun until it f lies through the corona, or outer atmosphere, for the first time next week, passing within 15 million miles of the solar surface.

Parker wil l make 24 close approaches to the sun over the next

seven years, ultimately coming within just 3.8 million miles.

Launched in August, Parker is on track to set another record late Monday night.

It will surpass Helios-2’s speed record of 153,454 miles per hour, relative to the sun.

NASA spacecraft sets record for closest approach to sun

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The U.S. Navy is doing more to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.

Starting in mid-November, the Navy expanded areas off the East Coast where it limits the use of sonar and explosives. It also broadcast more information on sight-ings to prevent military and commercial ships from striking right whales. Right whales number only about 440 and suffer from poor reproduction. The biggest threats to the species are commercial ship strikes and fishing-gear entanglements.

The Navy’s efforts comply with federal laws aimed at protecting the whales. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued final approval of the Navy’s plans. The Natural Resources Defense Council said the Navy’s efforts fail to go far enough. For instance, the group said sonar can still harass the strug-gling species.

Navy will boost efforts to help endangered right whales

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