THE NAME OF THE OSHKOSH MAN WHO DIED ON SUNDAY AFTER HE WAS HIT BY A SEMI-TRUCK HAS BEEN RELEASED. OFFICIALS HAVE IDENTIFIED THE VICTIM AS 24-YEAR OLD NILE ALSUWAILIH. ALSUWAILIH HAD APPARENTLY BEEN WALKING IN THE TRAVEL LANES OF SOUTHBOUND INTERSTATE 41 WHEN HE WAS HIT BY A SEMI DRIVEN BY A 55-YEAR OLD MAN FROM VAN DYNE. DRUGS AND ALCOHOL ARE NOT BELIEVED TO BE FACTORS IN THE CRASH AND IT REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
A lot of terms were used to describe the man that opened fire on Republicans members of Congress at their baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia on Wednesday. “Bernie Sanders supporter”, “left wing extremist”, “disturbed”, and “troubled” were the most common used by those investigating the matter, those who were among the targets and those who…
Usually us curmudgeons like to go on and on about how sports, music and movies were better in “our day”. I think that you can add Congressional hearings to that list as well. That’s what I was thinking during both the James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions testimony the last couple of weeks. While…
While James Comey was sucking up all the oxygen in the room, there was a pretty major science announcement last week. It turns out that the human species might be much older than we originally thought. Fossils found in Morocco place our earliest ancestors on the planet as far back as 350-thousand years ago. Until…
Welcome to US Open week here in Wisconsin. Many of you will be venturing down to Erin (or Hartford or Richfield–I’ve seen all three used to describe the location of the course in stories) for practice rounds the next three days–or for the competitive rounds Thursday through Sunday (and possibly Monday–more on that later). Here…