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HUNTINGTON, WV (LOOTPRESS) – Three area garden centers and a wholesale nursery in the Huntington region now offer West Virginia plant guides showcasing 500 plants commonly used in or recommended for West Virginia. In early 2025, the West Virginia Nursery & Landscape Association (WVNLA) unveiled the 80-page, full-color publication containing photos, descriptions, growing requirements and mature sizes of each of the plants. The Landscape Plants for West Virginia is available at no cost to public, thanks to WVNLA, at the following locations: Kim’s Greenhouse in Milton G & G Nursery, Lesage Kotalic Landscaping, Lesage Terra Fate Native Plant Nursery, Huntington…

Deserae Turner, 22, who survived a shot to the head as a child, is entering hospice care after the wounds inflicted during her ordeal left her terminally ill. Deserae was 14 when she was shot in the head and left to die in a canal bed in 2017 after being lured and attacked by classmates Colter Peterson and Jayzon Decker. She survived, graduate high school, and got married, but the attack left her with lifelong disabilities. Her family said on Tuesday that after nearly 50 surgeries, including 16 brain surgeries, Deserae has decided to enter hospice after learning that she…

A tourist couple hit by a car fleeing Chicago police downtown and left with devastating injuries may soon win a $32 million lawsuit settlement from the city. Aldermen are set to vote on the deal recommended by Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Law Department Friday, according to the City Council Finance Committee agenda. They will also vote on a previously stalled and hotly contested $1.25 million settlement for the family of Dexter Reed, the man shot and killed by officers in a gunfight that followed a plainclothes police traffic stop last year. The lawsuit filed by Bryce and Amy Summary of St.…

Deserae Turner, 22, who survived a shot to the head as a child, is entering hospice care after the wounds inflicted during her ordeal left her terminally ill. Deserae was 14 when she was shot in the head and left to die in a canal bed in 2017 after being lured and attacked by classmates Colter Peterson and Jayzon Decker. She survived, graduate high school, and got married, but the attack left her with lifelong disabilities. Her family said on Tuesday that after nearly 50 surgeries, including 16 brain surgeries, Deserae has decided to enter hospice after learning that she…

The well-timed editorial “On childhood literacy, Illinois could learn from the Bayou State” (March 26) is something every teacher, principal and school superintendent should read. I’m the founder of a company that has been implementing science of reading programs for nearly two decades, and the recent National Assessment of Educational Progress results were deeply disappointing. Year after year, millions of children fall behind in reading, and the consequences are profound: reduced lifetime earnings, higher dropout rates, poor workforce readiness and increased economic inequality, reinforcing cycles of poverty and limited opportunity. The data paints a grim picture. But what makes this…

Who wants to be a cop in Chicago? Who gets to be a cop in Chicago? Mayor Brandon Johnson told reporters last month that working toward long-standing goals to diversify the Chicago Police Department, the city has seen an increase in CPD applications from communities of color. Mayor Brandon Johnson looks on as police Superintendent Larry Snelling salutes and congratulates recruits during the Chicago Police Department’s recruit class graduation and promotion ceremony at Navy Pier on March 11, 2024. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune) “We’re seeing positive results where we have a diverse workforce, our Police Department is becoming more and more…

Back in the 1990s, Mayor Richard M. Daley would ride around town looking for vacant lots and insisting weeds be pulled and wrought-iron fences installed. One can only imagine what Daley would have thought about the current situation near the corners of Clark and West Ontario streets, where the Rainforest Cafe building, a themed structure replete with fanciful foliage and toadstools, has sat empty since 2020, and the Hard Rock Cafe, which closed permanently on March 29 after 40 years in business, has now joined the neighborhood carnage. The monster guitar sign has disappeared over the last few days and,…

Having enjoyed the Coen brothers’ dark comedy film “Fargo,” as well as the award-winning FX series of the same name, I thought I knew North Dakota’s largest city: quaint and provincial, with residents stumbling through ubiquitous snowdrifts most of the year and peppering their conversations with “you betchas” and “geezes” galore. Instead, as I wandered about Fargo’s downtown, I found a savvy nexus of sophistication and creativity. The vibe is warm and welcoming as the main street bustles with myriad coffee shops and cafes. The city bubbles with energy, entrepreneurship and a profound maker movement. Here are some of the…

If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times: “Does anyone at the table have an allergy or dietary restriction?” It’s become so ubiquitous when eating out that it’s hard to remember a time when we weren’t asked. According to a report updated in April 2024 by Food Allergy & Research Education, a nonprofit organization supporting those affected by food allergies, approximately 33 million people in the U.S. have at least one food allergy, which is defined as “an adverse health effect resulting from a specific immune response that occurs reproducibly on exposure to a given food.” That…

For more than four decades, Rory Spears was a ubiquitous presence on Chicago sports radio, covering all kinds of professional sports as an on-air reporter and behind-the-scenes producer — with an extra emphasis on the sport about which he was most passionate, golf. “He worked hard and hustled to get many freelance sports gigs, covering every Chicago professional sports team in town,” said longtime Chicago-area sports broadcaster Steve Kashul, who hosts “The Golf Scene” TV show. “However, his real passion was golf, and over the past 10 years, no one covered the local golf scene as thoroughly or as well…