correspondent david spunt is in wilmington, delaware tonight awaiting a verdict. david, good evening. david: trace, good evening. jurors will be back tomorrow for day two of deliberations. they deliberated about an hour today before going home. over the past week we saw salacious text messages, pictures in the courtroom. even high profile people sitting in the audience. but, in the end, it s all about this one gun form, hunter biden filled out in october 2018. hunter biden s attorney abbe lowell offered no reason for his client deciding not to testify in his own defense .38 caliber revolver. such a move would have been strategically risky. opening the president s son to likely intense cross-examination. in closing arguments. prosecutor pointed to more than a dozen msnbc of the biden family in the audience saying they don t matter. only the evidence does. which he called, quote: ugly and overwhelming. another prosecutor added no one is above the law. including the presiden
Over a 10-year campaign, they talked back to public health experts, government officials, and even purported allies who were treating them like they were the problem.
Champaign County? How interesting!
A while back my interest was piqued when I read in the
UDC about a presentation made to the Soroptimist Club concerning interesting women in Champaign County. When I recently read that “Interesting Women of Champaign County, Ohio Prior to 1960” would be presented on the Champaign County Library Facebook page, I made sure to watch.
Library employee Gloria Malone compiled the informative 30-minute program of facts gleaned from county histories, city directories, and archived newspapers. From these sources she added photographs and clippings in describing each of forty notable ladies.
For me, the most fascinating women were those with accomplishments involving cultural change and historical advancements, the kind we might take for granted these days. Sophia Holt, Alice Tracy, and Sarah Dupler served as physicians in the county in the 1800s. In 1870 Mary Lyons became the first woman clerk in Urbana, subsequently working forty years in the dress