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This coming weekend, we start getting knee-deep in festival season; county fairs, music series, and various markets will all be kicking inm esp ecially now that most every school is out for summer break. The Ogden Arts Festival will take over Historic 25th Street and the Ogden Amphitheater from June 11-12, featuring local and visiting artists and musicians, as well as cool vendors and food, plus kids activities for the wee ones to enjoy.
PHOTOS BY BUTCH COMEGYS / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Dunmore resident Donato J. Rinaldi displays the helmet he wore while fighting in the Korean War. A private first class in the 1st Marine Division, Mr. Rinaldi was wounded in April 1951 during the Battle of Horseshoe Ridge.
Bisland and other members of the Air Force Reserve's 940th Air Refueling Wing were made official during a redesignation ceremony at Beale on Saturday. "I've worked tankers most of my life," said Bisland, who first came to Beale in 1997 with the 940th.
Tuesday is Election Day across the state and there are a number of contested local races and tax measures that are worthy of your attention. With that in mind, the Daily Republic recommends: Solano County Board of Supervisors, 2nd District: Five candidates seek the seat being vacated after two terms by incumbent Linda Seifert.
Bosqueville native George Weaver was sent to Vietnam in 1969 after being drafted while in high school. After returning stateside, he joined the Army Reserves before leaving for the National Guard to train as a medic.
Jamie Marie, an 80-foot commercial fishing vessel, is hauled out at Platypus Marine in Port Angeles after having run aground in Ocean Shores on May 23. - David G. Sellars/for Peninsula Daily News ON THURSDAY, THE cargo ship Alaska moored to the Port of Port Angeles' Terminal 3 to take on a load of logs for export to China. The 616-foot ship was launched earlier this year from the Shin Kurushima Dockyard in Japan and made her maiden voyage to the United States in April.
A senior defense official told Fox News that F/A-18 Hornet combat jets deployed from the U.S. Navy carrier, flying over Turkey and conducting airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria. The strike marks the first launched by the United States from the Mediterranean since Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, as Naval air strikes have typically been launched from carriers in the Persian Gulf .
There is a new delay in the launch of new KC-46 Pegasus aerial refueling tankers but it should not affect MacDill Air Force Base, said U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, who has been leading the charge to bring the new planes to the base and obtain additional older ones. MacDill wasn't selected for the first round of the new tankers, but it is line to get more of the older KC-135 tanker planes they're replacing.
Abdul Rahman Ismail, an Iraqi soldier, is reunited with his family Friday at a military camp outside of Fallujah. The U.S. began sending sorties into the Middle East from the USS Harry S. Truman in the Mediterranean Sea.
Col. Tamhra Hutchins-Frye will be the Arkansas Air National Guard's first female brigadier general after her formal promotion Saturday. Tamhra Hutchins-Frye decided to join the Arkansas Air National Guard in 1984 to fly fighter jets, but she was told no.
Both of the U.S. military's high-drama, high-dollar flying teams suffered crashes on the same day this week, but supporters say the Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy Blue Angels are worth the money and the risk because they're vital to recruitment and help citizens feel good about their military. "It's our No.
Smiley was born in New Mexico and served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1944-46, helping use the Navajo language to outsmart the Japanese in World War II.
Boeing Co.' s delay in delivering aerial refueling tankers to the U.S. Air Force may bring the company financial penalties or negative ratings that could affect future contracts, according to a service document.
Phone and internet service have collapsed. Ham radio operators living on the stricken coast fire up their radios, contact emergency managers and report on the magnitude of the disaster so that no time is wasted in saving lives.
The U.S. Coast Guard says oil found in the water at the Lady's Island Marina in Beaufort is similar to the type of oil that recently leaked from Beaufort Memorial Hospital into the Beaufort River. Chief Warrant Officer Dan Ferrell tells The Island Packet of Hilton Head that the oil that stained the hulls of boats and blackened the reeds on Factory Creek's banks has similar characteristics to the hospital's Sunday spill, but authorities are currently investigating them as separate incidents.
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan tells The Associated Press that his goal is to make sure the GOP is "at full strength in the fall." Hillary Clinton lambastes her Republican rival's foreign policy vision as one of war, international turmoil and economic crisis, and says electing him would be "a historic mistake."
Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Raimon Hubbard directs an F/A-18E Super Hornet on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Mediterranean Sea, June 3, 2016. The USS Truman and its Carrier Strike Group are supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations.
One of the Air Force's elite Thunderbird jets crashed Thursday following a fly-over for the Air Force Academy's graduation ceremony in Colorado Springs, Colo. Thunderbirds F-16 crashes at Air Force Academy graduation One of the Air Force's elite Thunderbird jets crashed Thursday following a fly-over for the Air Force Academy's graduation ceremony in Colorado Springs, Colo.
One person has been reported dead after a U.S. Navy Blue Angels jet crashed following takeoff during a practice flight around 3 p.m. Thursday, according to a county fire dispatcher. Fire chief: 1 dead after Navy Blue Angel jet crash in Smyrna SMYRNA - One person has been reported dead after a U.S. Navy Blue Angels jet crashed following takeoff during a practice flight around 3 p.m. Thursday, according to a county fire dispatcher.