Friday may have kicked off the holiday shopping season, but Sunday marks the beginning of Advent.

News Briefs

Seventh Day Adventists started with message from the sky

The Fayette Seventh Day Adventist Church had a special interest in the recent Leonid meteor shower.

What's Advent
By JUSTIN KOLLMEYER
Religion Columnist

It's beginning to look a lot like...

The prodigal returns part II
By DR. KNOX HERDON
Pastor

Especially at this holiday season of the year, parents, husbands and wives painfully wait near the phone and watch the door and the mailbox for the return of the prodigal son or daughter or spouse.

Keep on laughing
By MARY JANE HOLT
Contributing Writer

My daddy always said it was just as easy to laugh as to cry, and that the laughter was good for me. Hope he was right because I've been breaking out into almost uncontrollable, though blessedly brief, bursts of laughter over the past few days