Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicted more than 2,020 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed 21 enemy tanks in the Kursk area and the Kharkov region over the week, the Defense Ministry reported ...

Molly Marie Cope, 84, of Virginia, Minn., died Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, at the Virginia Regional Medical Center. She was born July 23, 1924, in Virginia, to John F. Hoey and Louise Erickson Hoey.