The 8th Annual Celebrate Douglass Photography Contest will offer rewards of $25 for winners in each division for photographs celebrating life in and around Douglass.

DEARBORN — A free digital photography program for middle school students offered by the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn is being honored by the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Two area residents were among 4,450 candidates for degrees at the University of Kansas for spring 2008. Bevan Jean Graybill of Muskogee graduated with a Bachelor of Arts/Humanities.

Faces of despair. Telephone poles wrapped around fences. A concrete bridge broken into pieces. These are some of the images portrayed by noted Vicksburg photographer Melody Golding in her national traveling exhibit “Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember.�

After President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, more than 180,000 African-American soldiers fought in the Union Army, in regiments and battalions that often, unsurprisingly, drew the most thankless and unpleasant assignments, with li