Painting of George Washington with his family, wife Martha, and her grandchildren, by artist Edward Savage. In September 1789, members of America’s first Congress approached the nation’s first president, George Washington, and asked him to call for a national Thanksgiving. That seemingly benign request ignited a furor in Congress over presidential powers and states’ rights. […]
The Marion County Sheriff’s office revealed that a Thriftway supermarket employee in Jefferson, 15 miles south of Salem, Oregon is being held on $520,000 bail after she was arrested for lacing a bean dip at the business with methamphetamine and giving it to at least two fellow employees to eat at the store. Police opened […]
