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Wounded Gaza children find respite from war at Ohio summer camp

BUTLER, Ohio — Their bodies are maimed or burned. Their childhoods have been shattered. And their futures are filled with uncertainty as war rages in Gaza.

But for one week, three dozen wounded Palestinian children and members of their families have found a respite from the fighting at a summer camp in Mohican State Park, just an hour north of Columbus.

Thanks to HEAL Palestine, a nonprofit group that aids the youngest victims of the Gaza war, children like 7-year-old Qamar Alkordi, who uses two-hand crutches to walk, have been able to play in a safe place with other wounded children and feel less alone.

Huda Alkordi and her daughter Qamar.Huda Alkordi and her daughter Qamar.NBC News

“There’s other kids, they have the prosthetic, they are walking, and this is, like, it makes me happy to see this,” her mother, Huda Alkordi, said about the sleepaway camp, where Qamar played in an inflatable pool and sprayed other kids with water.

“And I really hope that Qamar, one day, she gonna walk, inshallah [God willing].”

Qamar Alkordi with her brother.Qamar Alkordi with her brother.

HEAL runs field hospitals and food kitchens in Gaza and runs educational programs for children who haven’t been inside a school since Israel Defense Forces invaded the crowded Palestinian territory after the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel, in which 1,200 people were killed and 250 were taken hostage.

“A lot of them are facing a future of near illiteracy,” said a HEAL co-founder, Dr. Zeena Salman, referring to how schools have largely ceased functioning in the shattered enclave.

In the 19-plus months since Israel began bombing Gaza and with most of its 2 million residents forced from their homes, Gaza has become an especially dangerous place for children.

About 1,309 children…

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Humidity will bring severe storms to the D.C. area Thursday – WTOP News

Thunderstorms blanketed the D.C. region on Thursday evening as quick-moving storms dropped buckets of rain and brought in powerful, damaging winds.

Chevy Chase Parkway NW blocked by oak tree and power lines in the roadway. (WTOP/Dave Dildine)

WTOP/Dave Dildine

A truck in the Mohican Hills neighborhood in Bethesda, Maryland, after it caught on fire following a storm Thursday. (WTOP/Jimmy Alexander)

WTOP/Jimmy Alexander

A truck in Mohican Hills in Bethesda, Maryland, after it caught on fire following a storm Thursday. (WTOP/Jimmy Alexander)

WTOP/Jimmy Alexander

A house is damaged in Potomac, Maryland, after the severe storm that came through the area Thursday. (WTOP/Mike Murillo)

WTOP/Mike Murillo

A photo of storm clouds in Culpeper, Virginia, on June 19, 2025. A photo of storm clouds in Culpeper, Virginia, on June 19, 2025. (Courtesy WTOP listener)

Courtesy WTOP listener

A photo of the storm in Chevy Chase, Maryland, around 4:30 p.m. (WTOP/Abigail Constantino)

WTOP/Abigail Constantino

Tree down on Riggs Road between Adelphi and 25th, blocking one lane with power lines also in the road. (Courtesy Jessica Mack)

Courtesy Jessica Mack

Downed tree crashes into Vienna, Virginia, home. (Courtesy Barnaby Harkins)

Courtesy Barnaby Harkins

A downed tree spears through the roof of a Vienna, Virginia, home. (Courtesy Barnaby Harkins)

Courtesy Barnaby Harkins

The view of the Washington Monument before the storm Thursday from downtown D.C. (Courtesy Christina Dixon)

Courtesy Christina Dixon

Downed tree in the Glover Park neighborhood of D.C. (Courtesy Nick Nguyen)…

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BKFC Mohegan Sun With Awesome Heavyweight Fights June 14

BKFC Mohegan Sun fight week is here. For the second time in under five months, David Feldman’s promotion heads to Uncasville, CT for this week’s edition of BKFC Fight Night. Throughout the world, you’ll be able to see this week’s card on DAZN.

Live coverage begins with the countdown show on the BKFC app at 5 pm ET/ 2 pm PT before transitioning to the fights themselves at 6 pm ET/ 3 pm PT. All told, barring any 11th-hour postponements between now and the weekend, the final version of BKFC Mohegan Sun will feature a schedule of 12 matches from David Feldman’s promotion.

There are two key fights at heavyweight at the top of the bill on Saturday night at Mohegan Sun Arena, including a return appearance to the venue for one of the fighters in the BKFC Mohegan Sun main event.

BKFC makes a return visit to Uncasville for BKFC Mohegan Sun Saturday.

BKFC Mohegan Sun Main Event: Parker Porter vs. Dillon Clecker

At the top of the bill on Saturday night, the heavyweight division takes center stage when UFC alumnus Parker Porter (1-0 BKFC) comes back to Mohegan Sun Arena to face off against Dillon Cleckler (3-1 BKFC.) All fights on Saturday’s card, main event included, are an advertised maximum five rounds at two minutes per round.

Porter will be making the walk to the ring on Saturday night having posted a record of 2-3 in his last five fights dating back to his tenure in the UFC. On Feb. 1, his BKFC and bare-knuckle boxing debut was a successful one, stopping Chase Gormley in just 44 seconds with a right-handed punch in the…

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Thomas L. Grant – Wilkes-Barre Citizens’ Voice

Thomas L. Grant OBITUARY

Thomas L. Grant, 76, of Edwardsville and formerly Nanticoke, passed away early Monday morning, Dec. 23, 2013, at home following an illness.

Born on April 11, 1937, in Nanticoke, he was a son of the late Otto and Edith Lux Grant. He resided most of his life at his home at East Green and Chestnut streets, Nanticoke, until moving to Edwardsville in 2010.

He graduated from Nanticoke High School, Class of 1955, and from August 1955 to 1958, he served in the U.S. Army. He was stationed in Germany, attaining the rank of Specialist 4. He also served as a reservist until 1961.

Early in life he worked in the breaker of the Loomis Colliery and later was a machinist at Kenar Machine shop, Wilkes-Barre, and Sandvik Steel Company, Mountain Top. He was also a self-employed General Contractor for many years. In later years he worked in maintenance at First Hospital, Wilkes-Barre, and last at Convention Hall, Pittston, until retiring in 1999.

He was an active member of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, and served on the Board of Church Council. He also used his mechanical talent doing repairs and maintenance of the church and parsonage for many years.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Ruth Dwyer, and a brother, Otto Grant Jr.

Surviving is his wife of 49 years, the former Jemiel Shiner; a son, Thomas Grant, Jones Creek, Texas; and daughters, Jemiel Smeltz and her husband, Daniel, Oaks, Pa.; Kimberly MacMullen and her husband, Duncan, Jackson Township; and Ruth Grant, Baltimore, Md.; grandchildren, Zachary and Kara Smeltz and Lauren and Collin MacMullen; a sister, Esther Moyer and her husband, Carl, Dallas; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will begin Saturday at 10:30 a.m. from…

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For years, she was a historical footnote in Philadelphia’s story of abolitionism. Finally, she’s getting her due.

In the winter of 1773, 29-year-old Dianah Nevil, a woman with Indigenous, African and European ancestry arrived in Philadelphia with her young children and made a remarkable claim– one that set her on a years-long legal journey, changed the course of her family’s life, and jump started the nation’s first white abolition society.

That winter Nathan Lowry of Flemington, N.J. sold Nevil and her family to Benjamin Bannerman, who intended to transport them to Virginia. Bannerman was a slave trader, whose wife placed an ad in the Virginia Gazette in 1768, chronicling his abusive behavior. Two years before the American War for Independence, Nevil and her four children left Flemington either because Bannerman directed her to move or because Nevil sought asylum — and traveled to Philadelphia, 50 miles away.

Upon reaching the city, sources agree, she asserted that she and her children were free people. In 1773, there were approximately 945 enslaved persons in the greater Philadelphia area. Twenty years before that, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting–an organization providing guidance to its Quaker meeting worship groups– had directed Quakers to disown members — who bought or sold Africans, and encouraged members who enslaved people to release them from enslavement.

Amid this effort, Nevil’s claimwas taken seriously.

Fifty miles to freedom

Mayor William Fisher, Quaker merchant, placed her in a workhouse located at 3rd Street and Elbow Lane (near what is now the Ben Franklin Museum and a parking lot), where two of her children died, possibly because of the poorhouse’s deplorable conditions.

A group devoted to her cause,calling themselves the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, hired lawyers to argue for her rights, in a case that would last months and then years.

That group, later known as the Pennsylvania…

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BKFC Mohegan Sun’s Must-See Fights Saturday Night

Parker Porter’s debut was one for the highlight reel, but how will his second fight under the BKFC promotional banner play out? Tune in for the answer.

Meanwhile, Dillon Cleckler enters BKFC Mohegan Sun’s main event having posted a mark of 3-2 in his last five combat sports appearances dating back to 2021. Last August, he sustained a fourth-round knockout loss at the hands of Frank Tate in Island Fights 84 in Pensacola, FL.

You don’t need to be a mathematician to know that Cleckler has a .750 winning percentage under the BKFC promotional banner, so can he start a new winning streak in familiar territory?

BKFC Mohegan Sun Co-Main Event: Yorgan de Castro vs. Josh Watson

We’ll stay in the heavyweight ranks for the BKFC Mohegan Sun co-main event. Immediately prior to the Porter vs. Cleckler tilt, Yorgan de Castro (1-0 BKFC), himself a veteran of both the UFC and the PFL, knuckles up with Josh Watson (3-1 BKFC.)

de Castro enters the co-headliner with a record of 3-2 in his last five fights. He most recently returned to MMA with a first-round knockout defeat to punches from Ante Delija on April 12. His maiden voyage under the BKFC banner on Feb. 1 resulted in a second-round TKO win over Bobby Brents after the latter could not proceed to the third round of a scheduled five due to suffering a hematoma.

He’s a seasoned combat athlete, having fought in MMA, bare-knuckle, and grappling contests. Much like Parker Porter in the main event, de Castro’s first impression in BKFC was a brilliant one. What can he do to follow up in fight number two?

Across the way, Josh Watson comes into the weekend with a record of 3-2 in his last five fights. At the moment, he’s on a three-fight winning streak. Last time…

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This Ohio State Forest Hike Is a Perfect Alternative to a Popular Cuyahoga Valley National Park Trail

Hike This (Not That) takes you on an adventure to experience both the well-known trail and the hike you probably haven’t heard of. We share how to get to both, what to expect, and why we would choose to hike each trail. Maybe you’ll want to visit both or maybe one of these hikes will seem more appealing; but you’ll leave with an appreciation for all that awaits you out on the trail.

This is a tale of two hikes. The first is a trail that includes on its route the most visited site in the Buckeye State’s only national park, which happens to lie within the state’s most populous metropolitan area. The second is a state park trail in rural northern Ohio that’s located several miles from any major city. Both are worthwhile, but if you’re looking for a less-trafficked alternative to the often-crowded Brandywine Gorge Trail in Cleveland’s Cuyahoga Valley National Park, the Hog Hollow, Lyons Falls, and Green Trail Loop in Mohican State Park is an excellent choice.

  • Distance: 1.4 miles, loop
  • AllTrails Rating: Moderately challenging
  • Suitable For: National park visitors who love waterfalls and nature; urbanites looking to escape from the city
  • Best Time of Year to Hike: Late spring for best waterfall views; April to October for general hiking

Cuyahoga Valley National Park is Ohio’s only fully-designated national park, and it’s located on the southern edge of the Greater Cleveland metropolitan area—the state’s most populous. In 2024, the park saw more than 2.9 million visitors—more than Mammoth Cave, Indiana Dunes, New River Gorge, Shenandoah, or Gateway Arch National Parks. Among the most visited sites—if not the most visited—in this busy national park is Brandywine Falls.

The Brandywine Gorge Trail in Cuyahoga Valley National Park shares not only a trailhead with the path to unspeakably popular Brandywine Falls, but several…

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Dorothy K. Nasser – Wilkes-Barre Citizens’ Voice

Dorothy K. Nasser OBITUARY

Dorothy K. Nasser, 93, formerly of Robert Street, Sheatown, passed away Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019, at Mercy Center Nursing Unit, Dallas, where she had been a resident for the past 4½ years.

She was born in Nanticoke on March 11, 1926, the daughter of the late Stanley and Anna Kowalski Kamon. She was a member of the graduating class of 1944 of Nanticoke High School.

After graduation, she became employed by the Army services, working as a stenographer in the Artillery Division Cannon Branch at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Later, as she returned to the local area, she was employed from 1961 to 1989 as the office manager by Brunozzi Chevrolet, Nanticoke, which then became Ertley Motorworld, retiring in 1995.

She was a member of St. Faustina Kowalska Church, Nanticoke, and also the former Holy Child Church, Sheatown, until its closing. She was a former president of the West Side Playground Auxiliary, a member of the Phi Beta Gama and the Confraternity of Christian Mothers of Holy Child Church.

Dorothy was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who loved gardening and sharing her Polish traditions with her family. She taught her children and grandchildren the importance of having a strong work ethic and the need for independence. Most of all, she taught them that family was always the most important thing in their lives and to always help one another.

Dorothy never missed the opportunity to attend any family get-togethers. She never missed a graduation, bridal or baby shower or a wedding for any of and grandchildren. She relished the fact that she could attend the annual family vacation in August every year because she would able to be with, and enjoy, her entire family.

Grammy, as she was affectionately known to her…

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