Will the Northern Lights be visible in Kentucky and Indiana? Here's what to know.

Due to the changing seasons and solar flares from the sun, the Northern Lights may be visible depending on where you live.
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Where Adventure Meets Charm in Staunton, VA 

 Tucked in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Staunton blends outdoor adventure with vibrant culture and dining. Historic streets, mountain views, local flavors, and world-class arts make it the perfect basecamp for travelers craving both natural beauty and small-town character.  Morning Start with coffee and a croissant at Réunion Bakery before exploring Montgomery Hall Park's wooded hiking and biking […]

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Dead Air Silencers Releases Limited Edition DAXE Winkler Knives Collab

Dead Air Silencers has made available 16 remaining units from a limited 50-piece collaboration with Winkler Knives. The product, designated the DAXE, was originally released as a Blade Show exclusive and is now offered through Dead Air’s Asylum member program at $630 per unit.

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The DAXE combines a tactical axe design with an integrated wrench feature. A 3/4-inch wrench cutout in the handle base is dimensioned to fit the wrench flats on Dead Air muzzle devices, providing a dual-purpose tool for field use.

Technical Specs

• Overall length: 13.125 inches
• Handle length: 6.75 inches
• Head width: 6 inches
• Cutting edge: 3 inches
• Steel type: 80CrV2
• Steel thickness: 0.248 inches
• Handle material: 0.25-inch black canvas laminate
• Finish: Caswell black oxide with penetrating sealer
• Construction: Skeletonized full tang

The axe ships with a purpose-built carrier system featuring 0.09-inch Boltaron thermoplastic construction with felt lining. The retention system uses HD shockcord with a quick-release mechanism, while nylon belt straps equipped with Mil-Spec Pull-The-Dot snaps provide attachment options. 80CrV2 is a spring steel composition typically selected for applications requiring high toughness and impact resistance. The black oxide finish treatment reduces reflectivity while providing corrosion protection.

Winkler Knives, based in North Carolina, specializes in tactical and utility edged weapons. The company’s products have been adopted by various military and law enforcement units. This collaboration represents Dead Air’s first venture into edged weapons, though both companies share similar customer demographics within the tactical and firearms communities.

The limited production run of 50 units, with serial numbers 26-50 still available, positions the DAXE as a collectible item in addition to its functional applications. Dead Air’s Asylum program provides early access to limited releases and exclusive products for members. Availability is limited to the remaining 16 units from the original production run.

What are your thoughts on this new Dead Air product? Is it worth the paper, or does it just look sharp? Let us know in the comments below!

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Wonderful Ohio Christmas Towns

Some of the best Christmas Towns are right here in Ohio! We picked five Ohio Holiday Fun Towns to share, but others can easily be on this list.

Lebanon, Ohio, is nationally known for its annual Horse-Drawn Carriage Parade and Christmas Festival, which features the legendary Golden Lamb, Ohio's oldest hotel, and other historic facades as a postcard-quality backdrop.

Cambridge, Ohio, doubles as Dickens Victorian Village. Visitors stroll amidst nearly 100 scenes of lifelike figures representing classic scenes from Old-world England's Victorian society.

Steubenville, Ohio, turns into Nutcracker Village & Advent Market, displaying over 100 life-size, uniquely designed, and hand-painted Nutcrackers.

Coshocton, Ohio's Historic Roscoe Village, features Christmas Candlelighting. The old canal town has unique shops, strolling carolers, and the wonderful experience of everyone gathering to light handheld candles and singing "Silent Night."

Medina, Ohio, is anchored by Castle Noel, America's largest year-round indoor Christmas entertainment attraction! Its scenes are from Hollywood Christmas movie sets and New York City's legendary holiday storefronts.

And the list could go on and on to include Lodi's Ye Olde Tyme Christmas or Christmas in Zoar Village, among others.

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Fifth and Vinyl







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Spin into the winter season at Fifth and Vinyl! Warm up your Thursday nights at Winterhaus with festive beats and vintage vibes as a live DJ brings the groove straight from the turntable. Enjoy cozy

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It's Fritz! A Sequel to Fiona: the Musical







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In a zoo full of stars, he’s ready to shine!

Everyone knows Fiona the hippo, but her little brother Fritz is still figuring out who he wants to be. In this new family-friendly musical, Hippo Cove’s

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Christmas Tea 2025







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Celebrate the Season with a Festive Tea Experience Available Daily Throughout December

Step into a world of holiday warmth and wonder with a beloved Christmas Tea, served daily throughout the month of

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Conservatory Crossing







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Come enjoy our winter wonderland! See the Conservatory decked out in its holiday best with a brilliant display of poinsettias, model trains and village, and thousands of twinkling lights.


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UPS plane broke apart after takeoff in Louisville, preliminary NTSB report shows

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) – A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reveals new details about the UPS cargo plane that crashed shortly after takeoff in Louisville earlier this month, killing 14 people and injuring more than 20 others on the ground.

According to the NTSB, UPS Flight 2976 took off from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport around 5:14 p.m. on November 4, headed for Honolulu. Moments after liftoff, investigators say the plane’s left engine and the structure holding it to the wing — known as the pylon — separated from the aircraft.

Surveillance video cited in the report showed the engine breaking away just after the plane lifted off the runway. As the engine came off, a fire ignited near the wing. The plane climbed only about 30 feet before it began losing altitude.

The NTSB says the aircraft struck the roof of a UPS warehouse near the airport before crashing into nearby buildings and a storage yard. Much of the MD-11F cargo plane was destroyed in the fire that followed.

14 killed, dozens injured

All three UPS crew members aboard the aircraft were killed, along with 11 people on the ground. The NTSB says 23 others suffered injuries ranging from minor to serious.

What investigators have found so far

The NTSB says the engine pylon — the metal structure that attaches the engine to the wing — showed signs of both fatigue cracks and overstress fractures, meaning the structure had weakened over time before failing.

Parts of the broken pylon, the spherical bearing that connects it to the wing, and hardware from the attachment point were recovered and brought to the NTSB materials lab for deeper analysis.

The report states:

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  The left engine detached almost immediately after takeoff.

  
  


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  Fire erupted near where the pylon separates from the wing.

  
  


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  The plane never climbed above roughly 30 feet before descending.

  
  


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  Debris stretched nearly 3,000 feet across multiple buildings.

  
  


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  Both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder were recovered and fully downloaded.

  
  

Plane maintenance history

The UPS aircraft had flown nearly 93,000 hours and completed over 21,000 cycles (takeoffs and landings). The NTSB says required inspections on the pylon had been completed in 2021, and a lubrication task was performed weeks before the crash.

More detailed inspections — known as Special Detailed Inspections — were not yet due, the NTSB notes.

UPS grounds MD-11 fleet; FAA issues emergency order

Following the crash, UPS grounded all MD-11 aircraft as a precaution. Boeing recommended the move, and the FAA soon issued an emergency order temporarily grounding MD-11s and later DC-10s due to design similarities.

Parallels to a historic crash

The NTSB points out that the failure seen in this incident is similar to the 1979 American Airlines Flight 191 crash in Chicago — one of the deadliest aviation accidents in U.S. history — which also involved an engine and pylon breaking away during takeoff.

What’s next

The preliminary report emphasizes that the findings are early and subject to change as the investigation continues. Federal investigators will now analyze the fractured components, review maintenance records, examine data from the flight recorders, and evaluate human, mechanical and operational factors.

A final report from the NTSB — including the official cause of the crash — could take a year or more.

You can read the entire preliminary report by clicking .

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Remembering Legendary Angler Flip Pallot

When Flip Pallot passed away unexpectedly on August 26th, he left a legacy that will be tough to match. Writing in Garden&Gun, T. Edward Nickens expresses the feelings of many folks in the fly-fishing world as they attempt to figure out what Flip meant to them:

It's difficult to imagine anyone sucking the marrow out of life as thoroughly as did Philip "Flip" Pallot. He was a soldier, banker, wanderer, and fishing guide. And when his ESPN television series, The Walker's Cay Chronicles, debuted in 1992, he embarked on a rocket ship ride to outdoors celebrity like no one before. He would later cofound Hell's Bay Boatworks and serve as the first ambassador for Yeti, a company started by two young Texas men he'd taught to fly-cast, Roy and Ryan Seiders. He inspired legions to pursue dreams of a life on the water.

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