Funeral services for Jerry Akers, age 72 of Raymondville, will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, Jan. 31 at Bradford Funeral Home in Summersville.

Area firefighters are mobilizing to a barn fire southwest of Licking, authorities said. The structure fire was reported at about 10:45 a.m. Tuesday on Prescott Road. Houston Rural and Raymondville ...

It’s OK to call a group of wild turkeys a flock, but another name for such a gathering is “rafter.” Allow me to describe an encounter I had earlier this week with a very populous rafter.