Month: June 2026

By Lauryn Schieffer

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    ONALASKA, Wisconsin (WXOW) — Around 30 protesters lined the sidewalk across from Angelini’s Ristorante in Onalaska on Saturday in response to a viral video in which the restaurant’s owner used derogatory language while explaining why he prefers hiring male servers over female servers.

The demonstration began at 4:00 p.m. Protesters held signs stating, “Respect Women” and “Do Not Eat Here.”

“All we want is for people to gently respect women,” said protestor Rebecca Albrecht. “Hands-off approach; you don’t have to be around us, but you need to be kind, and that is really, really important to me.”

A noticeable group of people gathered on the opposite side of the street showing their support for Angelini’s.

Owner Tony Angelini was observed using a microphone to direct profanities and gendered insults toward protesters and the organizer.

Angelini declined to comment when 19 News reached out.

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By Austin Pollack

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    FRANKLIN, Tennessee (WTVF) — Joan Bledsoe has attended every single day of the Franklin Rodeo for 75 years.

The 91-year-old has done it while surviving multiple cancer diagnoses.

The annual three-day event in Franklin marked its 75th year in May. Bledsoe has been there for all of them — and she has no plans to stop.

“I have not and enjoyed every single one of them,” Bledsoe said.

Her first cancer diagnosis came 40 years ago. She has been diagnosed twice with breast cancer and twice with colon cancer. Nothing has ever come in the way between her love for the rodeo and animals.

“Because I’m alive at all and able to go to the rodeo, I’m blessed and God has performed a miracle,” she said. “Because they didn’t think I’d live – they really didn’t.”

Bledsoe’s dad introduced her to the rodeo and horses. She recalls going to one of the earlier events.

“I remember it because the horse broke loose and came up in the stands,” she recalled. “Because all we had were football type stands. And it came up and everybody cleared up but my dad and me and we got it.”

That connection to the rodeo world runs deep — and so does her message for others.

“Every person that’s on this earth is important. And every person has something to give if they can find it,” Bledsoe said.

Bledsoe says she plans on attending the rodeo for many years to come.

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By Austin Pollack

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    DICKSON, Tennessee (WTVF) — The roads we travel today were once more rail. The United States is approaching 200 years of railroading, and in Dickson, a model railroad display inside a 113-year-old building is keeping that history alive.

The Clement Railroad Hotel Museum at the Hotel Halbrook State Historic Site served as a railroad hotel for 40 years. Today, it is home to a detailed, ever-changing model railroad layout built by the Dickson Model Railroad Club.

“Based on early photographs of downtown Dickson from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, they were able to recreate the downtown scape,” said Zach Kinslow, who runs the historic site.

He said Dickson’s railroad history carries significant regional weight.

“We were one of the most important rail hubs in the state of Tennessee, if not the southern United States,” Kinslow said.

“It has always been something that has really fascinated the American public, young and old,” Kinslow said.

The model layout includes recreations of Dickson landmarks — a fire station, train station, Ferris wheel and general store, among others. Jere Swader, a member of the Dickson Model Railroad Club for about 10 years, said the display is never truly finished.

“We’re adding new features all the time,” Swader said.

But keeping the layout running takes effort, and Swader said the club’s membership skews older.

“A lot of us older guys, it’s hard for us to get underneath and do the intricate wiring and things that’s required,” Swader said.

“Most of us are retired,” he said. “And we do have a couple of members that are younger,” Swader said.

The club hopes even more younger peope will step in to help carry the work forward.

For some members, the hobby is more than a pastime. Several are veterans, and Swader said the club has become a place of healing.

“We are retired military and retired civilians as well,” Swader said.

“Most of us, me included, don’t really like to talk about the war,” he said. “Unless we’re talking to each other.”

“[The model will] keep your mind off of the bad things and you can concentrate on the better things,” Swader said. “The more time you can put into this, the more self-satisfaction you could have.”

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    KILAUEA, Hawaii (KITV) — The 49th episode of the ongoing Halema’uma’u eruption began on Sunday morning and ended after 7.5 hours of fountaining.

The eruption began at 9:32 a.m. and officials reported a rapid increase in summit tremor along with ongoing summit deflation. Initially the fountains were about 50–75 feet high. The eruption ended abruptly at 5:05 p.m.

Fountains grew to about 600-800 feet within hours. The plume was up to approximately 12,000 feet above sea level and is moving to the south west, according to officials.

The Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency reported at 3:39 p.m., that winds have shifted, carrying the plume created by the Kilauea volcano eruption to the northeast and with it, possible light ashfall toward downwind communities.

Due to the shift in winds, residents downwind were encouraged to disconnect their catchment tank before the next rainfall, to avoid ashfall entering the catchment tank.

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Most lava fountaining episodes since December 23, 2024, have continued for a day or less.

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By Abby Smith

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    EL PASO COUNTY, Colorado (KRDO) — The article below contain details that may be disturbing to some viewers.

A woman is facing felony animal cruelty charges after being accused of killing her neighbor’s cat.

According to court records, Ashley Losey, who is accused of being a part of a long and bitter neighbor dispute, fed her neighbor’s cat to her dogs.

The neighbor, Lindsey Hodges-Hough, tells KRDO13 that the arguments between her and Losey began four years ago, causing her to put cameras around her house.

Hodges-Hough says her 15-year-old son’s cat, Toby, was outside. Arrest records obtained claim Losey is seen on surveillance tossing Toby to her dogs in the backyard.

“I can’t speak upon it. It’s. It’s cruel,” says Hodges-Hough.

Documents go on to say that the cat tried to run after being thrown in the backyard but was chased by the dogs.

Hodges-Hough and her husband tell KRDO13 that they are distraught about the death of their cat.

“There’s other animals in the neighborhood that are, you know, they walk around other paths, other dogs that get out of people’s yards. And this has never happened like this to where somebody just captures some of this animal and then physically gives it to their animals and it utterly,” says Hodges-Hough.

Losey was arrested and faces aggravated cruelty to animals, a class 4 felony charge.

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By Deanie Wimmer, KSL

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    SALT LAKE CITY (KSL) — Thousands of teens are pursuing a non-traditional summer experience: They’re working hard labor for strangers in another country, and actually paying for the opportunity.

The teenagers are taking part in a program that is surging in popularity, Humanitarian Experience, known as HXP.

“I just think we live in a time when the kids that are here right now have both the responsibility and the capacity to make an impact for good on the world that they live in,” said HXP CEO Amy Antonelli.

Eight thousand kids will serve this summer, most of them members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

They will travel to various countries for about 17 days and take part in carefully vetted service projects, ranging from building school classrooms in Africa to health clinics in the South Pacific.

“It’s the sweetest thing in the world when you see a kid has been working at Swig for two years and she’s out in the middle of Kenya putting on bricks that she bought,” Antonelli said.

She has an HXP “mantra” she tells teens: TWBM, “There Will Be Miracles.” And in past surveys, 98% of teens attested they’d experienced miracles on their trip.

But the promised miracles aren’t just centered on those they’re serving. Antonelli makes no apologies for the focus of the HXP mission: changing the lives of teenagers.

“We believe that we can give these kids an experience where they see the truth about who they really are, especially in the light of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ,” she said.

HXP was never intended to become a big, global nonprofit. It actually started with two parents who wanted to offer their son a different, more humble perspective.

They took him to Brazil to spend the summer building a home for street children. The change in their son was so dramatic after that summer of service, other parents wanted the same for their children.

Ten years later, HXP has spread through word of mouth and now sells out within a week of open registration.

Antonelli said she doesn’t take credit for the program’s success.

“I think if I were to tell you that I was the one running this, I would be ridiculous,” Antonelli said. “This is God, and I think there are so many parents out there that are on their knees praying for their kids, and this is one way that I think he answers their prayers.”

At the HXP offices, several trip organizers and trip leaders could be seen working to meet the needs of kids out in the field.

Many of them, once HXP volunteer builders themselves, have now returned as a way to pass along the life-changing experience they received a few summers ago.

“The lights come back on in these kids’ eyes when they’re out there, and they’re doing just what Jesus said to do, which is love God, love people,” Antonelli said.

The Key Takeaways for this article were generated with the assistance of large language models and reviewed by KSL’s editorial team. The article, itself, is solely human-written.

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