Spencerville residents Sara, Andrew and Matt Cockerell pose with the sign Andrew, 10, made to support neighbor Paul Lee in front of their house. SPENCERVILLE — One of Spencerville’s own is getting ...

Kay Cockerell, 86, of Abilene passed away peacefully on August 25, 2025, surrounded by family. Kay was born on November 9, 1938, in Cisco, Texas. She was one of four daughters born to the late Clyde ...

Cockerell set out to write a family memoir and ended up crafting an absorbing history of a little-known episode in the birth of Zionism that saw 10,000 Jews leave Russia for, of all places, Galveston, ...

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Discovering the ways her great-grandfather’s rich life intersected with the hidden history of Zionism led to an unusually crafted new book, “Melting Point.” By Marc Tracy One summer day 10 years ago, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Kelsey Jukam/Courthouse News) (CN) — A pharmaceutical marketer who was convicted of participating in a $60 million health care fraud ...

Ezekiel was an exile. Born in the kingdom of Judah, he survived the siege of Jerusalem, in 597 B.C.E., but afterward was banished with his fellow-Jews to Babylon. While there, he had an arresting ...

Rachel Cockerell’s “Melting Point” touches on Zionism, assimilation and a short-lived effort to divert Jewish immigrants from Ellis Island to Galveston. Growing up in London, almost everything Rachel ...

For her first book, Rachel Cockerell took an unconventional approach. With the exception of the preface and the afterword, Melting Point, a history of Cockerell’s family and their involvement in early ...

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Earlier this fall, Elmhurst University’s School of Business launched the Institute for Professional and Community Engagement, a resource hub that offers opportunities for students to develop ...