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Taking the kids: Time travel back to ancient Egypt and meet king Tut

1 day ago | herald-review.com | Eileen Ogintz

Let’s hear it for ambitious kids!A 12-year-old boy named Hussein was desperate to get a job on Englishman Howard Carter’s archaeological dig in Luxor, Egypt. It was 1922 and Carter was struggling. For years, he’d been searching unsuccessfully for the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, the “boy king,” who died as a teenager. His patron, George Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, and an avid collector of Egyptian antiquities, told Carter he was cutting off his funding after the season.
Biden Cancer

1 day ago | herald-review.com | Mark Schiefelbein

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Photos: Members of Davenport West's Class of 2025 receive their diplomas

2 days ago | herald-review.com | Katelyn Metzger

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2 days ago | herald-review.com | Eileen Meslar

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Congress Tax Cuts CBO

2 days ago | herald-review.com | J. Applewhite

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Man charged with stomping pet cat to death

3 days ago | herald-review.com | Tony Reid

DECATUR — A Decatur man is facing a cruelty charge after prosecutors accuse him of killing a woman’s pet cat. Delbert W. McGee, 45, was arrested May 12 and booked on a charge of aggravated cruelty to animals in the death of the pet, which appears to have been killed the same day.
Mom fires shots into the air during dispute, police say

4 days ago | herald-review.com | Tony Reid

DECATUR — A Decatur mom is accused of firing 10 shots into the air from a handgun during a dispute in a liquor store parking lot. A sworn affidavit said Decatur Police Department officers know the shooter was Shanbriel R. Dennis because the 29-year-old woman was captured on surveillance tape. Office Philip Ganley, who signed the affidavit, said the shooting dates to around 2 a.m. May 27 in the parking lot of 22nd Discount Liquor in the 1300 block of North 22nd Street.
COMPETING FOR HARDWARE

4 days ago | herald-review.com | Scott Perry

Skip to main contentSkip to main content Police say they arrested a 46-year-old Decatur woman for stabbing her boyfriend twice, strangling him and then dumping laundry detergent over … Investigation into the death of 3-year-old Kaseyn Clifton of Decatur continues. Kelly Nichols, still protesting her innocence, was led away to start her prison sentence as her family sat sobbing in the courtroom.
Man who tried to help dumpster diver gets stabbed, cops say

4 days ago | herald-review.com | Tony Reid

DECATUR — A good Samaritan who went to the aid of a dumpster-diving man being menaced by two suspects was stabbed in the arm with a pocket knife, police report. The dumpster-diver said he had been searching for valuables in the 1100 block of North Main Street just before 5 p.m. Thursday when he was approached by two men who began yelling at him and acting aggressively. Sgt.
Killer of Decatur mom and her unborn baby gets 40 years

4 days ago | herald-review.com | Tony Reid

DECATUR — The consequences of a 15-year-old Decatur gunman’s violent preemptive strike — which resulted in the shooting deaths of a mom and her unborn child — caught up with him in court more than two years later: Mattarion A. Anderson, now aged 18, was sentenced to 40 years in prison. He was given one 20-year term for the March 8, 2023 first-degree murder of 20-year-old Janiah B. Thomas, whose six-month-old baby died with her.