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John McFarland — a longtime Coast marketing guru, community advocate and executive director of the American Red Cross for Southeast Mississippi — died Tuesday night. McFarland, of Gulfport, worked for years as the Sun Herald marketing director and became an authority on the local economy. He also served on various boards and committees over the years and is remembered as a person who made

Brian Steed, a former congressional staffer for U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart and past Iron County deputy attorney, was named this week as Utah's first "Great Salt Lake Commissioner." Steed, who is also the former director of the Utah Department of Natural Resources, was picked by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox to fill the new role, established to put one person in charge of developing a plant to protect and

Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown has died at age 87. One of the greatest players in pro football history, Brown was chosen the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1965 and shattered the league's record books in a short career from 1957 to 1965. A spokeswoman for Brown's family said he passed away peacefully in his Los Angeles home on Thursday night with his wife, Monique, by his side

On the menu today: The allegedly tough-on-China Biden administration now wants to invite Xi Jinping to the negotiations over how to end the war driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There are about a million reasons this is a bad idea, not the least of which being that at this point, there’s no sign that the Russian government is willing to negotiate a ceasefire. China is an increasingly