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Neighbors band together

Today’s Sound Off is a happy idea that benefits residents on a suburban street: Dear Heloise: I live on a cul-de-sac, and as it turns out, everyone on my street is over the age of 56. We look out for one another and provide help to each other whenever it’s needed or asked for. Every Fourth of July, we have a street party with just the residents of our street. We all bring food, drinks and usually barbecue something on a grill. It’s a lot of fun. It’s also the time we all share information that helps other people on our street, such as the name or number of a good plumber who ...

Diplomats flee Sudan fighting as citizens struggle to escape

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Foreign governments evacuated diplomats, staff and others from Sudan on Sunday as rival generals battled for a ninth day with no sign of a truce that had been declared for a major Muslim holiday. While world powers like the U.S. and Britain airlifted their diplomats from the capital of Khartoum, Sudanese desperately sought to flee the chaos. Many risked dangerous roads to cross the northern border into Egypt. “My family -- my mother, my siblings and my nephews -- are on the road from Sudan to Cairo through Aswan,” prominent Sudanese filmmaker Amjad ...

Special forces swiftly evacuate US embassy staff from Sudan

WASHINGTON — U.S. special operations forces carried out a precarious evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Sudan on Sunday, sweeping in and out of the capital with helicopters on the ground for less than an hour. No shots were fired and no major casualties were reported. With the final embassy employee out of Khartoum, the United States shuttered its diplomatic mission indefinitely. Remaining behind in the East African nation are thousands of private American citizens. U.S. officials said it would be too dangerous to carry out a broader evacuation operation. Battles between two rival ...

Carol Burnett marks a big birthday with NBC special

For anyone who’s ever thought Carol Burnett’s birthday should be a national event, now it is. One way in which the much-beloved comedy icon will spend her special day Wednesday, April 26, is “Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love,” NBC’s new all-star celebration of her. The show will be filled with tributes from many of her friends and peers, including Dame Julie Andrews and former “Carol Burnett Show” cohorts Vicki Lawrence and costumer Bob Mackie ... as well as Cher, Lily Tomlin, Ellen DeGeneres, Steve Carell, Amy Poehler, Aileen Quinn (“Annie”) and Bill Hader ...

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Q: How do you like depicting the work of forensic investigators on “CSI: Vegas”? A: It’s amazing, like when we were doing the research for this, finding out how people can spend like three days in the bottom of a lab, just down in some DNA ... trying to figure out the stories of what happened to people’s loved ones. We’re on the amazing side of it, where we get to just sit and have like all the best of the best just at our beck and call (them) to be able to write a story about that. For me, it’s hard to imagine (that at this) very second, there are people in the basements ...

Public Notices, April 22, 2023

PUBLISH (April 15, 22, 29, 2023) STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF GOODHUE DISTRICT COURT FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT FAMILY COURT DIVISION Court File No. 25-FA-14-2088 In Re the Matter of: Rhonda Delane Johnson, Petitioner, and Nicole Rennee Nachreiner, Respondent. and Chad James Nachreiner, Co-Respondent. The above-entitled matter came on for hearing before the Judge of District Court on November 16, 2016, at the Goodhue County Government Center, Read Wing, Minnesota. The Petitioner appeared personally and with her attorney, Nicole R. Broderick. The Respondent and Co-Respondent did ...