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Police say the 14-year-old suspect who stabbed a classmate at his Oklahoma high school had tried to start a relationship with the female victim.

House of Worth | Wedding Dress | c. 1896
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Employing a textile design that mirrors itself from selvage to selvage, this dress is pieced into a perfectly symmetrical image at the center front. Impeccable finishing details such as this distinguish the couture garment from the countless products of the ready-to-wear market that flourished in the mid- to late nineteenth century as a result of the Industrial Revolution. The use of the textile pattern to emphasize the woman’s fashionable hourglass silhouette, achieved with the help of a steel-boned corset, further demonstrates the mastery of dressmaking technique at the House of Worth, as do the tiny handstitched cartridge pleats at the shoulder that create voluminous sleeves. The design of this sleeve, broad at the upper arm and fitted at the lower arm with the sleeve extending over the back of the hand, refers to sixteenth-century dress styles.
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The White House issued a presidential proclamation with an order to lower the flags nationwide.

Oscar winner Mahershala Ali stars in the long-awaited new season.

Antibiotics can treat the disease, but a relapse can occur within six to 18 months after effective therapy.

"It is not your right to exacerbate this grievous act by hijacking Mollie and all she believed with your racist fear-mongering."

The teen told authorities that her mother would "loan" her to men.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is looking into a plan that would allow states to use federal funding to buy firearms for teachers, according to reports by The New York Times and The Washington Post.

A 55-year-old man has been sentenced to 130 days in jail after video showed him harassing a bison in Yellowstone.

A video on social media is going viral after it shows a student being sent home from a Louisiana private school because her hair does not follow school guidelines.

How far is too far when it comes to teaching a child a lesson?

Well, this isn't fair but you probably already suspected this. 😒

Some residents are concerned after a large pile of needles was found on a Stockton roadside.

Verizon officials confirmed the throttling but told the fire department to buy a new data plan that was twice the cost, the fire chief said.

I first reported on the remarkable barn of the Sonnenberg family back in 2013, updating with the above photo in 2015.  This year it was time to repaint the barn, so I returned to meet old friends and document the process.


The first step had already been undertaken by the family, who had contracted with a local Amish family to repaint the barn.  That required removal of the butterflies and the use of some heavy equipment to get them down and put them back up.


While one crew worked at the barn, others gathered in the front yard to get the butterfly appliques ready.


The butterflies had been repainted during this past winter.  Here are the larger ones (Red Admiral, Mourning Cloak, Painted Lady, Buckeye, swallowtails, fritillaries, etc.  All of the wooden appliques had been hand-drawn and cut at a scale of one foot to one inch of real life size.  The hand-repainting was done by family members, neighbors, and friends from the local church, who gathered this past weekend for the festivity of remounting them on the newly-painted barn.


In the shade of the front yard trees, screws were preset into the wings to speed up the work of the crew at the barn.


I was particularly impressed that some took the time to touch up the screw heads to match the underlying wing color - a detail that would be invisible to people driving by on the road.


The small butterflies (skippers, blues, coppers, hairstreaks) are depicted from the side, with the wings folded up over the torso, in part because they typically rest in that position, and because the undersides of the wings often have the definitive markings.


As the afternoon went by, the butterflies landed on the wall.  What passers-by on the road don't realize is that the ones on the barn wall are not just Wisconsin butterflies, but 50 different species that have been documented on this particular farm.


That impressive diversity is attributed in part to the owners' decisions to maintain large patches of the farm in native plants and undisturbed habitat.


The state of Wisconsin recognizes "century farms" that not only have been active for a hundred years, but have been maintained by descendants of a single family during that time.  Wisconsin became a state in 1848, so the program was started in 1948 and currently includes about 9,000 farms located at some of the best sites that pioneering families could find in the early statehood years.


There are lots of ways to spend a summer afternoon, and lots of places to picnic, but not many better than the front yard of a historic farm; it refreshed some now-vague memories of my childhood years visiting grandparents on their old farm in southern Minnesota.  This gathering of friends and family for a communal project reminded me in many ways of a classic "barn-raising."  It was a delightful experience.

A Bay Area school district is trying a new dress code for size -- one that allows students to wear pajamas, ripped jeans, hats and hoodies.

The Saddle Ridge Hoard is the name given to identify a treasure trove of 1,427 gold coins unearthed in the Gold Country of the Sierra Nevada, California in 2013. The face value of the coins totaled $27,980, but was assessed to be worth $10 million. In total, the hoard contains $27,460 in twenty-dollar coins, $500 in ten-dollar coins, and $20 in five-dollar coins, all dating from 1847 to 1894. The collection is the largest known discovery of buried gold coins that has ever been recovered in the US.

The owners of the property discovered the trove while they were walking their dog on their property. Although they had reportedly hiked the trail numerous times previously, it was not until they spotted a rust-covered metal can poking out of the ground that they chose to explore further... After Mary noticed the can, John bent down to pick it up, but found that it was stuck in the dirt. He began to use a piece of wood to pry it from the ground. It was so heavy that they believed that the can likely held lead paint. On their walk back to their house, struggling to carry the weight of the find, the lid of the can cracked open, revealing the edge of a single gold coin. They returned to the site with some hand tools to see if they could find anything else. They found another can about a foot away from where the first can was discovered. Although it was partially decomposed due to rust, it held several more coins. They continued to return to the site to look for more coins, primarily digging in the ground and eventually using a metal detector. Their work eventually resulted in the discovery of eight cans filled with 1,427 coins.

I am recurrently frustrated that nobody seems to have buried cans of gold in my woods or along the trails where I hike.

The Trump administration says conserving oil is no longer an economic imperative for the U.S.

A Mormon lawyer wants to preserve the ability to discriminate against patients using medical marijuana.

The president has accused social media companies of discriminating against Republican voices in a series of tweets on Saturday.

Best comment from the Aww subreddit thread: "Little do they know, they’ll reunite in 30 years to defeat a killer clown that dwells in the sewers."

Critics on social media called the sign "victim-blaming" and misogynistic.

Someone didn't get their mail today.

The world is reacting to the death of the legendary Queen of Soul.

Stays | c. 1785
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The primary purpose of 18th century stays was to raise and shape the breasts, tighten the midriff, support the back, improve posture to help a woman stand straight, with the shoulders down and back, and only slightly narrow the waist, creating a “V” shaped upper torso over which the outer garment would be worn.
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Perhaps it was just stopping in for the bare necessities.

Campers who may have come in contact with a sick bat are now being warned to see their doctor after the animal tested positive for rabies.

Signs of rabies include abnormal behavior like nocturnal animals wandering around in daylight, approaching humans or other animals without fear, aggressive behavior, difficulty walking or unusual vocalization.

With more than a dozen wildfires actively burning across California, the Trump administration on Sunday charged that environmentalists are partially to blame.

Saved! 60 dogs, cats rescued as California wildfire threatened an animal shelter.