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THE OTHER SIDE: Jack Smith v. The Supreme Court

Despite the remarkable obstacles thrown in his way by the Supreme Court, Jack Smith and his team are still hard at work trying to satisfy the claims of justice.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Philadelphia

We made a beeline for the Liberty Bell, a must-see since Kay had spent much of the summer studying history at the National History Academy in Middleburg, Virginia. Well-guarded and well-run, we meandered through on our own and then headed to Independence Hall.

Berkshire DA: Autopsy results in Sheffield murder-suicide expected ‘in the near future’

Authorities believe Luke Karpinski, 41, murdered his wife, Justine Wilbur, also 41, and their three children before setting their house on fire and taking his own life.

Family of Sheffield’s Samya Stumo files lawsuit against aircraft manufacturer Boeing

At a news conference yesterday in Chicago, where Boeing is headquartered, lawyers for Stumo's parents, Michael Stumo and Nadia Milleron of Sheffield, said the Ethiopian crash "should never have happened" and that "the shortcuts and greed of Boeing and others will be proven in the ensuing lawsuits as well as the utter disregard of the passengers they were to protect that could have avoided this tragic crash."

Memorial reception for Samya Rose Stumo

We invite everyone who cared about our daughter, Samya Rose Stumo, to a reception in her honor, Saturday, March 23 at 1:30 p.m.

Samya Stumo, who grew up in Sheffield, dies in Ethiopia plane crash

Stumo, who grew up on a farm in Sheffield, was a 2015 graduate of UMass Amherst and had received a master’s degree in global health from the University of Copenhagen.

AMPLIFICATIONS: The holidays

The best Christmas I ever had was that first one with my daughter Kay in 2008, just a few months after I adopted her.

AMPLIFICATIONS: World hunger

Giving up something small and sending that $10 or $20 to a charity is easier to do than you think and can become a habit.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Loss

One of my regrets is that I did not just bypass the infertility treatments and go straight for adoption, because I can’t imagine that I could feel any closer to a birth child than I feel to my daughter.

Amplifications: Friendship

Friendship is often a difficult country to navigate and female friendship is a country filled with emotional landmines. So what do we tell our daughters?

AMPLIFICATIONS: Absence of kindness

To me it is fundamentally obvious that racism is at the heart of those most loyal to Trump. Underlying meaning of “Make America Great” again is really “Make America White Again.”

LEONARD QUART: Yellow Cab Blues

The drivers speak of leaving behind countries where political corruption and violence are rife. 
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