February 2024

Retro Fitness Expands into 50 New Underserved Black Communities Nationwide Staying healthy and fit might have just gotten easier for many in underserved Black communities as Retro Fitness has recently opened locations in 50 nationally underserved Black communities, according to a report by KPRC Click2Houston. This move is seen as a significant…

TL/DR - The Smokehouse Creek Fire has grown to over 1 million acres in Texas, making it the largest fire on record in the state and surpassing the East Amarillo Complex fire in 2006. The fire also burned at least 31,590 acres in Oklahoma and caused widespread destruction in northern Texas, killing at least one person, 83-year-old Joyce…

TL/DR - The Marquette Symphony Orchestra is scheduled to perform at the Kaufman Auditorium on Saturday, with the event featuring a performance of Griffin Candey’s “Plein Air Concerto for Viola and Orchestra” and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade.” Local soloist Debbie Carlson will also be featured in the concert. The concert will take place…

TL/DR - Idaho's attempt to execute one of the nation's longest-serving death row inmates, Thomas Eugene Creech, failed after multiple unsuccessful attempts to tap into a vein for lethal injection. Creech, who has been in prison for 50 years and was sentenced to death in 1983 for murder, was returned to his cell after the botched attempt. Amid a…