State Rep. Scott Lipps, R-Franklin, and Butler County Common Pleas Judge Noah Powers II are on opposite ends of the legal system: One creates laws, the other enforces them. But they’re also closely ...

P. Alvin Laird of Griggsville, a retired educator and part-time clergyman, will be one of 163 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Masons to be elevated to the 33rd Degree in a ceremony Aug. 31 in the Academy of ...

Paul W. Burns of Brazil, was elevated to 33rd Degree Mason in a special ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 27, during the annual meeting of the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Freemasonry. Burns ...

Harley Gladen Fryar, 69 of McGehee, Ark, passed away Thursday January 13, 2011 at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff, AR. He was a 33rd degree Master Mason, life member of Desha Lodge 643 ...