Congratulations to the Arrow, Southeast Missouri State University’s student newspaper, for its nomination as a finalist for a Pinnacle Award for its special project on sexual assaults on campus. The in-depth examination of the school’s policies concerning reported rapes, students’ stories of how they were treated throughout the process and the challenges of the university systems and checks and balances was the biggest project taken on by an Arrow staff in at least decades, and maybe in the history of the publication. ...

Tears ran down my face as I read today's obituary that included a newborn baby girl and a 16-year-old young man. Some things in life are not fair....