Stories from Monday, October 9, 2023

Recipes tell the stories of communities and the people who shape them. Each recipe is more than a list of ingredients and steps; it is a written legacy of the individual who created the dish, their family and history. This monthly series highlights one of these legacies and gives readers the chance to create the recipe themselves...

Today is Monday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2023. There are 83 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 9, 2009, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."...

A federal judge will decide within a month whether to lift a 10-day school suspension of a Woodland High School student for creating a home page on the World Wide Web critical of the school district; the student, Brandon Beussink, 16, seeks a preliminary injunction against the school district in Marble Hill, Missouri, and claims the suspension in February violated his First Amendment right to free speech...