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BOLIVAR, Mo. (KY3) - At the peaceful Parkview Residential Facility in Bolivar. Inside every door, there’s a great story. “Pretty soon the school bell rang,” resident Bill Pool said, “knew right then, gonna be tardy again.” Inside Bill’s room is a book full of his poems. It sits right next to the shadowbox full of World War II medals. “I think he’s a great man,” Bill’s daughter Carolyn George said. “He still has love,” Bill’s other daughter, Jeanie Price added. Bill Pool enlisted in the Army in 1941 and, after basic training, was off to the heart of the ground...

Theresa May's proposed new economic partnership with the EU "will not work", the head of the European Council has said. Donald Tusk said the plans risked undermining the EU's single market. He was speaking at the end of an EU summit in Salzburg where leaders of the 27 remaining member states discussed Brexit.

Three female students - ages 14, 15 and 16 - say they were repeatedly assaulted and groped by the boys for months at the Schlossstrasse Middle School in Salzburg ... The victims only came forward after hundreds of women reported being sexually assaulted by migrants on New Year's Eve in Cologne, Germany.

A group of out of control Krampus (men dressed as horned creatures who in Austrian folklore punish children who have misbehaved) injured five young people at a pre-Christmas event in Bruck in the state of Salzburg on Monday.The teenagers were violently hit on the hands and legs with birch branches and whips. Organizers of the event and police said they did not realise that the event had got out of hand until witnesses reported that people had been assaulted. The Brucker Krampuslauf event was taking place for the 18th year and around 2,000 people came to watch the event, which...

Women's urinals get scrapped in Salzburg Four hugely unpopular ‘women’s urinals’ at a Salzburg convention centre are finally being scrapped after 13 years of not being used. They will be replaced with conventional toilets, at an estimated cost of €21,000. When they were first installed the urinals were a talking point and were praised for their hygiene and water saving potential. However, it seemed women visiting Salzburg’s Kongresshaus never really get the hang of them and complained that having to hover over them in a “skiing position” just wasn’t practical. It was a common sight to see women running...

The police attacked a 15-year-old from Liberia on the Walser mountain. The teenager said his family had died of the disease. The crisis team met. Maybe Salzburg has its first suspected case of Ebola since Monday. In the afternoon the police had picked up a young man from Liberia on the Walser mountain during a Schengen investigation. He was traveling alone and claimed to be 15 years old. The reason for his escape from Liberia he called the Ebola epidemic raging there: His family had died. He was then rushed to the provincial hospital. He is now on Infectious Diseases...

VIENNA – A man turning dirt in his back yard stumbled onto buried treasure — hundreds of pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects that Austrian authorities described Friday as a fairy-tale find. Austria's department in charge of national antiquities said the trove consists of more than 200 rings, brooches, ornate belt buckles, gold-plated silver plates and other pieces or fragments, many encrusted with pearls, fossilized coral and other ornaments. It says the objects are about 650 years old and are being evaluated for their provenance and worth.

Violence Against Pro-Lifers in Salzburg At a Pro-Life demonstration of "Youth For Life" in Salzburg an activist was punched out by a Pro-Abortion fanatic and had to spend the night in the hospital. Salzburg (kath.net) At a peaceful demonstration by the Austrian life defense group "Youth for Life" this last Saturday in Salzburg a life defender was punched. The group broadcast this information recently.

Carl Maria von Weber, the early-19th-century German composer, wrote ten or so operas. But we know basically three of them, and those chiefly through their overtures, and a few arias. The operas I'm speaking of are "Der Freischütz," "Euryanthe," and "Oberon." The Salzburg Festival is performing the service of staging "Der Freischütz" this year. But it is staging it in a production that baldly subverts the opera — thereby canceling the service. "Der Freischütz" means "The Marksman," roughly, and it is a "singspiel" — an opera that combines singing and talking. It is a cousin of "The Abduction from the...

The host city for the 2010 Winter Olympics will be named in Prague, Czech Republic Wednesday when the International Olympic Committee convenes its 115th session.IOC President Jacques Rogge will announce whether PyeongChang, South Korea , Salzburg Austria or Vancouver, Canada wins the bid.But the Canadian city's candidacy may have recieved a boost Tuesday, when the President of the International Ice Hockey Federation expressed his support for Vancouver.On the Federations official website, Rene Fasel of Switzerland said 'an Olympic Hockey tournament in Canada would be something very special.'He also said that 'any hockey person hopes for Vancouver because it is a...