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Jerry S. Parr, the Secret Service agent credited with saving President Ronald Reagan’s life during an assassination attempt in 1981, died Friday at a hospice near his home in Washington. He was 85. The death was confirmed by Mr. Parr’s wife, Carolyn, who said he died of congestive heart failure. Mr. Parr was just feet away from Mr. Reagan when John W. Hinckley Jr. opened fire on the president outside the Washington Hilton hotel on March 30, 1981. “When he was about probably six or seven feet from the car, I heard these shots,” Mr. Parr said in a 2013...

A Senate runoff election between Lyndon Johnson and Coke Stevenson in 1948 was a fierce contest. For five days after the election, Stevenson believed he had won the closest senatorial election in American history. Out of nearly a million votes cast, he had a 112-vote lead.

Parr Lumber, a family owned company for more than 74 years, has based its business on the principles of respecting our employees, offering advancement opportunities and rewarding them with excellent wages and benefits. I’m Nate Bond, as a longtime Parr employee and former Teamster member, I have benefited from these values. That is why it is so disheartening to watch my former Union display a willingness to misrepresent Parr’s current contract proposals. The union would have you believe that it’s all about take aways. Not true - the real issue is mandatory union membership. As a result, the union is...