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On the morning of March 18, 1991, Larry Gibson, a sheriff's deputy of Douglas County, Oregon, prepared to leave for a jog at approximately 11:30 a.m. from his home in Azalea. [2] Larry claimed that, before leaving the property, he attempted to shoot a stray cat but missed. [3] His son, Thomas, aged 2, was playing in the yard of the home at the ...
The county was created during Reconstruction after the American Civil War.The Georgia General Assembly named it after Stephen A. Douglas, [3] an Illinois senator and the Democratic opponent of Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1860.
Douglasville is served by the Douglas County Sentinel, [58] a three-day-a-week publication that covers local and state news and by All On Georgia - Douglas, [59] a hyperlocal digital news organization that covers local, state and national news, daily. Chapel Hill News & Views also serves Douglasville as a monthly magazine with 45,000 circulation.
Willis Douglas Corkern was a child of the Lowcountry in old Georgetown, where his father worked at the paper mill. As a boy, he rode his horse to be with Jean Misroon, a neighbor girl he would ...
Douglas County is any of twelve counties in the United States, all of which are named for Stephen A. Douglas, a Senator from Illinois from 1847 to 1861 and the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1860: Douglas County, Colorado; Douglas County, Georgia; Douglas County, Illinois; Douglas County, Kansas; Douglas County, Minnesota; Douglas ...
The Daily Journal of Commerce was founded by George H. Himes in 1872, [2] [4] and was initially known as the Commercial Reporter. [5] It merged with Sunday Welcome (a competing public notice newspaper in Portland) in 1942 [6] [7] and was purchased by Dolan Media Company of Minneapolis in 1997.
Robert John Cornell was born in Gladstone, Michigan, and attended parochial schools in Green Bay, Wisconsin.He earned his B.A. from St. Norbert College (De Pere, Wisconsin) in 1941 and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from The Catholic University of America (CUA) in 1957.
Christian Hansen Jr. (October 16, 1931 – May 14, 2023) was an American businessman and government official from Vermont.A Republican, he was best known for his service as United States Marshal for the District of Vermont from 1969 to 1977 and again from 1982 to 1994.