• Corning’s Centerway Square named 5th best public square by USA Today’s 10Best

    CORNING, N.Y. (WETM) -- Centerway Square in Corning was voted as the fifth best public square in the U.S. by USA Today's 10Best readers after previously coming in first and second place. Centerway Square was one of 20 public squares from across the country to be nominated to be on 10Best's 2024 list of Best []

  • How Do We Disagree in the Public Square?

    The public square is the meeting ground where people make society happen. In these spaces, physical or metaphorical or digital, we work through our shared dramas and map our collective hopes. Ideally, the public square provides room to solve the problems we face. It is also where new, thorny issues often arise. This “Up for Discussion” is part of Zócalo’s editorial and events series spotlighting the ideas, places, and questions that have shaped the public square that Zócalo has created over the...

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    State agency asking for public's help to find missing cow

    KENTWOOD - The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry is looking for a cow that went missing in Kentwood. The LDAF said the cow was last seen on a property on Miller Road in early April. The cow is a white crossbred Charolais with a single horn on the left side and a circle X brand on her right flank.Anyone with information on the cow's whereabouts can call (985) 542-2250. Permalink| Comments

  • Investigators ask for public's help locating fugitive with Minnesota connections

    William Guy Amick III, 36, also goes by “E.” He lived in Mabel and Rushford, Minn., for approximately two years until May 2023. His whereabouts since that time are unknown.

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    Police find alleged suspect connected to road rage incident

    MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (WDTN) -- Officers have located the vehicle and its driver in connection to a fatal road rage incident on Tuesday, April 16. According to Middletown Police, in their search for the second vehicle, detectives found two alleged suspects in connection to the incident, one of them being the driver and the other being []

  • Hawaii authorities seek public’s help finding OCCC escapee

    Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials said they are seeking the public’s help in finding a pre-trial detainee who escaped from the Oahu Community Correctional Center on Friday.

  • Study finds affordability, not infrastructure, is major barrier to high-speed internet connectivity

    With a federal subsidy that has provided less expensive or free broadband internet to more than 23 million American households due to run out of money by the end of May, a new University of Massachusetts Amherst study reveals that direct-to-consumer subsidies can be far more effective at connecting households to high-speed internet than expanding broadband infrastructure.

  • Yorktown Center Mall resumes normal operations after Lombard police find ‘no credible threat to the public'

    The Village of Lombard is asking the public to avoid the area near the popular suburban mall as police work to investigate reports of a "suspicious person."

  • Study finds that we are much more likely to find an Einstein on the political left

    A provocative fresh study has unearthed a correlation between left-wing convictions and both elevated intelligence quotient (IQ) scores and genetic markers thought to be linked with heightened intelligence. As elucidated by psychology researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in their novel paper, published in the journal Intelligence, a plethora of intelligence assessments revealed […]

  • Guest Essay: From square one to Washington Square, your voice matters

    Guest essays reflect opinions from writers beyond WSN. If you’d like to submit a guest essay for consideration, please email [email protected]. What does it mean to be an NYU student? Is it pulling all nighters at Bobst Library? Is it meeting new people across all majors, from Tisch to Tandon? Or maybe, it’s exploring our campus This story Guest Essay: From square one to Washington Square, your voice matters appeared first on Washington Square News.

  • Shelter Finds Box With a Note, Opens It to Find Animal No One Expected

    A cat rescue received a box with a note that said the sender found this "kitten" while on a walk, but Sierra Pacific Furbabies discovered a big surprise.The California-based organization specializes in rescuing cats and kittens on euthanasia lists or strays from local shelters across the state, then connecting them to their forever homes. But recently, David Loop and Sierra Pacific Furbabies received a box dumped off at their office.The box was covered by a blanket, which revealed a note when...

  • Iran expands public crackdown on women and girls, sparking public anger

    Iran expands public crackdown on women and girls, sparking public anger (Third column, 11th story, link) Related stories:Nearly intact missiles being found in Israel desert