Stories from Saturday, December 31, 2022

The new year is often a time of celebration as one year ends and another begins. However, many New Year’s celebrations have ended in tragedy because of alcohol-fueled vehicular crashes. Here at the Daily American Republic, we’ve had many articles in our paper this year about serious and fatal vehicle crashes. Sadly, some of those crashes were a result of a driver consuming alcohol before he or she got behind the wheel...

Butler County Deputy Lt. Brian Evans died Saturday morning, Dec. 31. He had been battling cancer. Butler County Sheriff Mark Dobbs announced, “It is with a broken heart that we inform you of the death of Lieutenant Brian Evans. Brian passed away early Saturday after a long and hard-fought battle with cancer.”...