The Hindu

From chisel to masterpiece: Thammampatti’s wood carving legacy

Nestled between the lush green hills of Kollimalai and Pachaimalai, the village of Thammampatti in Salem district is synonymous with traditional wood crafts. Artisans patiently chip away at wood to ...
9NEWS

Bent County prison deaths were murders involving brutal and bloody attacks, sources say

LAS ANIMAS, Colo. — The deaths of two inmates at a privately run state prison in southeastern Colorado were murders and were the result of brutal and bloody attacks that also sent a third inmate to ...
CBS News

Historic Bent's Old Fort in Colorado faces preservation challenges as it marks 50 years of telling the West's story

Long before Colorado was a state, a mud-brick trading post on the banks of the Arkansas River served as one of the most important commercial and diplomatic crossroads in the American West. Today, a ...
The Denver Post

2 inmates who died in Colorado prison ID’d, but officials still mum about what happened

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Bent County coroner identified the two prisoners who died inside the Bent County Correctional Facility during an unspecified “incident” on Saturday as 27 ...
Asheville Citizen-Times

Alleged Bent Creek forest attacker arrested, in Buncombe custody

ASHEVILLE - A Henderson County man was arrested May 22 and accused of assaulting a runner in the Bent Creek Experimental Forest, according to Matt Marshall, spokesperson with the Buncombe Count ...
New York Post

Woman plans to have legs amputated after legs locked straight, bent backwards

A young woman will have both her legs surgically amputated after they bent at a 45-degree angle upwards. Megan Dixon, 21, has been left with unbearable, constant pain for the past eight years when her ...
The Ledger

After 65 years, Bent's Cycling hits brakes. But manager opens new shop

LAKELAND — Steve Bent has probably done more than anyone else in Polk County to get people pedaling. Bent, owner of a bicycle store in Lakeland’s Dixieland section that dates to 1961, has sold ...
The Sun

Shocking moment France star appears to gouge Scotland rival’s eyes in Six Nations but escapes punishment

THIS is the shocking moment a France star appeared to gouge a Scotland rival’s eyes in Saturday’s Six Nations clash. The vile incident occurred as Scotland stormed to a stunning 50-40 victory over ...
The Pueblo Chieftain

Why Bent's Old Fort is now one of 'Colorado's Most Endangered Places'

Roughly eight years before Fort Pueblo was established in what is today Downtown Pueblo, traders gathered at what is now Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, approximately 70 miles east along the ...
The Denver Post

Bent’s Fort in eastern Colorado is crumbling, in need of saving, according to nonprofit

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... One of Colorado’s best-known forts is in need of saving, along with a crumbling religious site, a pharmacy, and more structures in a new list of places ...
Colorado Public Radio

50-year-old building at Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site now among the state’s most endangered places along with other Southern Colorado sites

The main adobe building at Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site near La Junta is now considered one of Colorado’s Most Endangered Places. Crumbling adobe walls and other structural problems mostly ...
WBAY

SMALL TOWNS: Princeton wood carving club brings people together through craft

PRINCETON, Wis. (WBAY) — A love for wood carving has led to a weekly gathering at Princeton’s American Legion Hall, where the Wood Wizards Carving Club meets every Tuesday morning. 87-year-old Mario ...