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Today in History Today is Thursday, May 4, the 124th day of 2023. There are 241 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire during an anti-war protest at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others. On this date: In 1776, Rhode Island declared its freedom from England, two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted. In 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, a labor demonstration for an 8-hour work day turned into a deadly riot when a bomb exploded. In 1904, the United ...

Horoscopes

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Once upon a time, you cultivated a spirit of gratitude, and now it’s your default. You don’t expect people to fill in the gaps between what you have and what you want, but, with a thankful heart, you’ll notice when they do. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Mistakes are a normal part of any endeavor, and you should allow for one or two slip-ups. But if you find that it’s just one problem after another, consider that it may be a sign that there’s a better path out there for you than this one. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There’s enough that’s already ...

Porn addiction disrupts my marriage

Dear Annie: I am writing about an issue that I believe is affecting many couples now. The issue is pornography. My husband and I have been married for 25 years, and we had a happy marriage while raising our three children. They all turned out to be good, responsible adults. We bought a house together, went on vacations and really lived a pretty good life over the years. However, things seemed to change two years ago. Suddenly, I find myself yearning for his attention and compliments. I know I’m not as young as when he met me, but I stay in relatively good shape and spend time ...

Shining your silver jewelry

Dear Heloise: You once had a simple recipe to shine silver jewelry, and I’ve lost it. Would you reprint those instructions? I have a lot of sterling silver jewelry that needs cleaning, and some of my pieces have nooks and crannies that I can’t clean by hand. -- Mae R., Dallas Mae, this is so easy and can be done at home with items you probably have in you kitchen. Here it is: Line the bottom of your sink or a bowl with aluminum foil. In the palm of your hand, make a pile of salt, then dump it onto the foil. Next, make another pile of baking soda in the palm of your hand and dump ...

‘Nobody should be shocked’

LOS ANGELES — Four people found shot to death in an RV in a small Mojave Desert community in California. Four partygoers slain and 32 injured in small-town Alabama during a Sweet 16 birthday that ended with a girl kneeling beside her fatally wounded brother. Six people, included three 9-year-old children, gunned down at an elementary school in Nashville. Now the discovery of seven people found shot to death in rural Oklahoma is keeping the U.S. on a torrid pace for mass killings in 2023 and could push the number of people slain past 100 for the year. The Mojave slayings over the ...

Shot fired at Memphis TV station; suspect in custody

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A shot was fired at a Memphis television station on Tuesday, but no one was wounded, the station said. The suspect then hid in a nearby business before he was arrested about two hours later, police said. WHBQ, the Fox affiliate in Tennessee’s second-largest city, reported that the shot was fired about 11:30 a.m. The bullet came down outside the front door of the lobby of the building, which is in a commercial area near the University of Memphis campus. Police said the armed suspect went into a nearby hamburger restaurant, and authorities advised the ...