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Checking on things

Nance Elementary School secretary Karen Chapman checks on a student’s status at the school. 

(AP) – If investigators were able to quickly find alarming data about the number of close calls in the years before the midair collision over the nation’s capital that killed 67 people in January, then aviation safety regulators should have seen the problem, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board told Congress on Thursday.

(AP) — A recreational submarine taking 45 tourists on an underwater cruise of coral reefs in the Red Sea sank off the Egyptian resort town of Hurghada on Thursday, leaving six Russians dead, the provincial governor said. The remaining tourists, more than two dozen of whom were injured, were rescued, he said.

Wednesday the Clinton Hospital Authority met at Clinton Regional Hospital, and while no illumination was shed on the prospective completed sale of the hospital, there were updates to recent staff acquisitions and talk of impending physicians coming to the medical facility.

Let there be light

John Robertson, left, helps hold the drill in place as Victor Gonzales f ires it up in preparation of installing new light poles at Homeland Tuesday afternoon.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Joseph Martin Robledo Jr., 36, of Clinton, for the alleged felony charge of domestic assault and battery in the presence of a minor, second and subsequent offense.

Meeting “Dr. Seuss 2.0”

Jaxen Patton, left, gets his book signed by author Alastair Heim at South west Elementary. Heim spoke with several classes Monday at the school. He is regarded by many as “Dr. Seuss 2.0,” as he has published books involving the same characters in new adventures.

District Judge Donna Dirickson

Changes are coming for the judicial benches at the Custer County Courthouse. That much was obvious when District Judge Jill Weedon retired from the bench last year leaving Donna Dirickson and Stephanie Jones as the judicial figureheads at the courthouse.

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