A 50-year wedding anniversary is considered a massive milestone. One local and beloved couple has surpassed that by decades. This month, Betty Williams Long, 97, and Jerry Long, 103, celebrated 80 years of marriage. The two have a lot in common: a good sense of humor, favorite hobbies like reading The Daily Chronicle, and a…
A 50-year wedding anniversary is considered a massive milestone. One local and beloved couple has surpassed that by decades. LANCASTER, Calif. (KABC) — A 50-year wedding anniversary is considered a massive milestone. One local and beloved couple has surpassed that by decades. This month, Betty Williams Long, 97, and Jerry Long, 103, celebrated 80 years of…
The morning light streamed through the stained glass, casting soft rainbows across my white gown. My pulse raced with excitement as I admired my reflection, trying to steady my breath. Today was the day—my day. “You look absolutely gorgeous, Anna,” my best friend and maid of honor, Tia, beamed as she fluffed my veil. I…
At just five years old, Ryder Wells has endured more than most people face in a lifetime. While visiting family for Thanksgiving in 2015, the North Carolina toddler—only 21 months old at the time—was mauled by two 100-pound rottweilers. He survived catastrophic injuries: half of his face was torn away, his teeth were crushed, and…
In Petersburg, Virginia, a seventh grader is being hailed as a hometown hero after risking his own safety to save his family from a fast-moving house fire. Four lives were spared that day — and all because 12-year-old Romir Parker’s instincts told him there was no time to waste. It happened in early June, when…
Getting inside the classroom every day and trying to cope with all those students who have different personalities and learn using different strategies isn’t that easy. However, watching a shy student raising their hand and speaking in front of the whole class, or seeing a struggling student getting an ‘A’ makes you realize that it’s…
In 1979, Richard Miller’s life had been reduced to silence. At thirty-four, he was a widower, his wife Anne having passed two years earlier after a long illness. Their house, once alive with dreams of children, now echoed with emptiness. Evenings were the hardest—Richard would sit at the kitchen table beneath the yellow glow of…
PONCHATOULA, La. (WVUE) – The man accused of a weekend road-rage shooting on the north shore will be booked with second-degree murder, after the 17-year-old girl shot in the head was removed from life support and died, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday (Aug. 26). “The charges against the suspect in this case, 54-year-old Barry West,…
My name is Claire, and just a month ago, I thought I had lived the happiest day of my life. The wedding was everything I had ever dreamed of—an intimate ceremony in a sunlit forest clearing, fairy lights strung high among the branches, and an aisle paved with golden leaves. As I walked down that…
When I met Emily, I somehow felt that she was the woman I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. From the moment she entered the office, her presence radiated calmness and peace, the same two feelings she soon brought into my life. Three years forward, we were planning our wedding and our…