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Go, See, Do: Wetlands celebration, author talks, poetry readings and more

Friday, April 17 Lawrence Reviewed Pop-Up: Review the Bee Tree at the Natural History Museum, 10 a.m.-noon, KU Natural History Museum, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd. Author event: Lorie Hetrick-Volenberg, “Mosses Through a Hand Lens,” 4:30-6 p.m., Lawrence Public Library Auditorium, 707 Vermont St. ...

Camp Mystic guard says an early evacuation order could have saved lives

AUSTIN, Texas — The security guard at Camp Mystic the night of last year's deadly flood acknowledged Wednesday that if a general evacuation order came early in the storm, lives could've been saved. Glenn Juenke, who helped move some girls to a two-story building before getting trapped ...

US aircraft carrier breaks record for longest deployment since the Vietnam War

WASHINGTON — The world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, broke the U.S. record Wednesday for the longest post-Vietnam War deployment, a nearly 10-month span that saw it take part in both the military raid in Venezuela and the Iran war. The ship's 295th day at sea surpassed ...