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Family honors woman s wish to be buried with cross she carried to San Antonio after escape from communist Hungary
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Agnes Rosza displays a picture of a cross on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2021, that was carried by her aunt, Rose Helen Safran, when she escaped the communist forces that invaded Budapest in 1956. Safran and her husband, Stephen, became leaders of the Hungarian community in San Antonio.Billy Calzada /Billy Calzada
In the last months of her life, Rose Helen Safran was bedridden and dementia had robbed her of the ability to tell richly detailed stories of her beloved homeland of Hungary and a hair-raising escape from communist forces in the 1950s.
Dorsey man faces weapons charges
Scott Cousins, scousins@thetelegraph.com
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EDWARDSVILLE A Dorsey man faces several felony weapons charges after an April 8 incident in Granite City.
Randy L. Sheppard, 41, of Dorsey, was charged with possession of a firearm with revoked firearm owners ID card, a Class 3 felony, and aggravated unlawful use of weapons and criminal damage to property over $500, both Class 4 felonies.
The case was presented by the Granite City Police Department.
According to court documents, on April 8 Sheppard allegedly was found to be in possession of a Smith & Wesson 9 mm handgun while having a revoked Firearm Owners Identification Card, and was carrying it loaded, uncased and easily accessible in a motor vehicle without a concealed carry permit. He is also accused of causing more than $500 damage to another person’s 2000 Toyota 4runner by breaking out the windows and ramming the back of the vehicle.
Emma Galloway s Tempeh & Mushroom Burgers with Smashed Avocado
for 4 people
By: Emma Galloway
These burgers are a great plan-ahead meal because the patties keep well in the fridge for a couple of days – and I encourage you to chill them for at least 30 minutes because this helps to keep them together better when cooked. They also freeze really well. The world of gluten-free buns has come a long way since I started eating gluten-free, so I tend to buy them these days, although there was once a time when the only way I could eat nice junk-free gluten-free buns was to make them myself (you ll find the recipe in my second cookbook,
Natchez man s heart stopped twice, lives to tell his story
SABRINA ROBERTSON, Natchez Democrat
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NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) After 11 p.m. on a Saturday in April 2019, Kay Biglane Taylor of Natchez said she watched her husband John Taylor’s head fall back after his open heart bypass surgery at Baptist Medical Center and yelled for the nurse.
He had just coded.
“Every bell and whistle that could go off in the hospital did,” she said.
She was taken to the hospital’s chapel to wait while the medical staff worked to restart John’s heart.
Kay said she could not cry at first because she was too busy thinking about what she would say to their three children, Hunter, Presley and Pepper.