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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Climate
- Yahoo
Farrell couple tells story of survival and loss 40 years after deadly tornado
FARRELL, Pa. (WKBN) – This Saturday marks 40 years since one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history. On May 31, 1985, a powerful F-5 tornado tore through parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania, leaving a path of devastation and heartbreak in its wake. One of the hardest-hit communities was Farrell, Pennsylvania, where lives were changed forever in just a matter of seconds. Gerald 'Bugs' Multari survived the storm, but lost a dear friend. Multari keeps a trained eye on the sky these days because he knows just how quickly things can change. 'It was seconds, it really was. It couldn't have been more than half a minute or so, it was gone,' he said. A spring day in 1985 that turned deadly, the violent tornado outbreak ripped across the area. Forty years later, the scars remain etched into the hearts of people, like Multari, who survived. 'There were no tornado sirens whatsoever,' he said. Multari and his wife, Kathy, were cheering on their son at a Little League game that day when the sky darkened and the storm rolled through. He threw himself on top of his children, shielding them with a metal sign. Kathy rode out the storm in the concession stand. 'All you saw was debris flying out of the top,' Multari said. David Kostka, affectionately known as 'Davey,' was a longtime friend of the Multaris, coaching third base that day for his son's team. Kostka was killed by the storm. A memorial at the corner of Roemer Boulevard and Park Avenue now honors his life and sacrifice. 'It's comforting but also sad. It looks like he's looking right at you,' Kathy Multari said. The trauma ran deep as the family struggled to cope with the loss. 'Our daughter had to have counseling afterwards, just with the tornado and that was her first close death that she experienced, because he was like an uncle to our kids,' Kathy Multari said. This quiet tribute is a spot Gerald Multari has visited frequently in the years since Kostka's death. 'I passed that every day and I would speak to him. I told him I loved him, and missed him and everything,' he said. This weekend marks 40 years since the sky opened up over Farrell but the time hasn't erased those memories — it's just given them space to remember. 'I cried, I think we all did,' Multari said. 'You just can't get over it. You just can't get over that.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Why Kathy Hilton Won't Join RHOBH Full-Time
is not ready to join as a full-time cast member just yet. Which is quite surprising, as both of her sisters had full-time status, with Kyle Richards still going strong. However, the friend of star is hunky-dory not being the center of the drama on the show. Still, would Kathy ever consider changing her mind? It's hard to believe that Kathy has been a part of the RHOBH cast for several seasons already. Even with her limited screen time, she still manages to outshine her castmates. During Season 14, she gave several memorable moments, such as crashing into a model on the catwalk at Sutton Stracke's fashion show. Oop. To add fuel to the fire, Kathy also asked Sutton if she needed Dorit Kemsley to host her fashion show. Kathy was completely oblivious that the two were at war, and no one seemed to be mad at her about it. That's next level Real Housewives chess right there. Then there was her infamous alleged meltdown in Aspen during Season 12. Lisa Rinna had claimed it all started over a Michael Jackson song at the club. If this isn't full-time status behavior, then I don't know what is. However, Kathy isn't ready to hold a diamond. She dished to TooFab the reasoning why during a QVC event. Her initial reaction was, 'No, no, no,' at the thought of going full-time. Kathy explained, 'I want to be able to do this. I love being able to spend the time that I do. And we have a great time. And for me, it's fun.' She's in good company as her co-star Jennifer Tilly feels the same way. She told TooFab, 'I really did enjoy being a friend of this season. Because you can dip in and dip out. You're not too deep into the drama. But you know what? You never know. You never know …' Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is streaming on Peacock and on Hayu in the UK and Ireland. TELL US – WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE KATHY HILTON AND JENNIFER TILLY AS FULL-TIME HOUSEWIVES NEXT SEASON? The post Why Kathy Hilton Won't Join RHOBH Full-Time appeared first on Reality Tea.
The Age
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
For 20 years this novel has reduced the most hardened critics to tears
For more than a decade, Kazuo Ishiguro had a box file in his study marked 'Students Novel'. In it were notes, diagrams and some pages of a story he'd tried to write in 1990, then again in 1995. Each time he'd abandoned the attempt and had written a completely different novel. He knew his students would share a strange destiny that would shorten their lives but also make them feel special. But what would that destiny be? Here was where he got stuck. He'd played around with ideas such as a virus or radioactive poisoning, but it all seemed too melodramatic. In 2001, he returned to his project with fresh ideas. They were inspired partly by new developments in science, and partly by the contact he'd had with a new generation of British writers such as Alex Garland and David Mitchell. While Ishiguro had come of age in an era when literary fiction avoided any whiff of 'popular' genres, the younger writers had no such qualms. They blithely incorporated all sorts of influences from science fiction, fantasy and horror into their work. 'My growing familiarity with these younger colleagues excited and liberated me', Ishiguro writes. 'They opened windows for me I'd not thought to open before. They not only educated me into a wider, vibrant culture, they brought to my own imagination new horizons.' He writes this in his introduction to the 20th anniversary edition of Never Let Me Go, the extraordinary novel that gradually emerged from those early notes. It's the Nobel Prize winner's most-read novel, has sold in millions, is widely studied and has been translated into 50 languages. It's been adapted into a film, two stage plays and a Japanese TV series. Like many fans, I remember vividly my first reading. It starts so quietly, narrated in simple and artless prose by Kathy, a student at Hailsham, a mysterious boarding school in the English countryside with kind teachers and a nostalgic Enid-Blyton feel. We follow the everyday lives of Kathy and her two schoolfriends, Ruth and Tommy, as they grow into young adults. Gradually the purpose of the school is revealed. I won't give it away except to say there's a dark future for these idealistic, hopeful kids and their tender feelings for one another. Talking of tender feelings, this is a novel that reduces the most hardened critics to tears. 'No matter how many times I read it … it breaks my heart all over again,' writes Alix Ohlin in the Los Angeles Review of Books. 'I was nothing less than stunned by it,' David Sexton writes in the New Statesman. He reread it on a day ferry when he was a judge for the 2005 Booker Prize (it nearly won, but the casting vote went to John Banville's The Sea) and was glad he was in a windowless cabin, 'so tearful it made me'.
Sydney Morning Herald
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
For 20 years this novel has reduced the most hardened critics to tears
For more than a decade, Kazuo Ishiguro had a box file in his study marked 'Students Novel'. In it were notes, diagrams and some pages of a story he'd tried to write in 1990, then again in 1995. Each time he'd abandoned the attempt and had written a completely different novel. He knew his students would share a strange destiny that would shorten their lives but also make them feel special. But what would that destiny be? Here was where he got stuck. He'd played around with ideas such as a virus or radioactive poisoning, but it all seemed too melodramatic. In 2001, he returned to his project with fresh ideas. They were inspired partly by new developments in science, and partly by the contact he'd had with a new generation of British writers such as Alex Garland and David Mitchell. While Ishiguro had come of age in an era when literary fiction avoided any whiff of 'popular' genres, the younger writers had no such qualms. They blithely incorporated all sorts of influences from science fiction, fantasy and horror into their work. 'My growing familiarity with these younger colleagues excited and liberated me', Ishiguro writes. 'They opened windows for me I'd not thought to open before. They not only educated me into a wider, vibrant culture, they brought to my own imagination new horizons.' He writes this in his introduction to the 20th anniversary edition of Never Let Me Go, the extraordinary novel that gradually emerged from those early notes. It's the Nobel Prize winner's most-read novel, has sold in millions, is widely studied and has been translated into 50 languages. It's been adapted into a film, two stage plays and a Japanese TV series. Like many fans, I remember vividly my first reading. It starts so quietly, narrated in simple and artless prose by Kathy, a student at Hailsham, a mysterious boarding school in the English countryside with kind teachers and a nostalgic Enid-Blyton feel. We follow the everyday lives of Kathy and her two schoolfriends, Ruth and Tommy, as they grow into young adults. Gradually the purpose of the school is revealed. I won't give it away except to say there's a dark future for these idealistic, hopeful kids and their tender feelings for one another. Talking of tender feelings, this is a novel that reduces the most hardened critics to tears. 'No matter how many times I read it … it breaks my heart all over again,' writes Alix Ohlin in the Los Angeles Review of Books. 'I was nothing less than stunned by it,' David Sexton writes in the New Statesman. He reread it on a day ferry when he was a judge for the 2005 Booker Prize (it nearly won, but the casting vote went to John Banville's The Sea) and was glad he was in a windowless cabin, 'so tearful it made me'.
Metro
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Warring EastEnders legends put feud to bed after major news is issued
Cindy and Kathy put things to one side after some heartbreaking news (Picture: BBC/Kieron McCarron) You might want to sit down before reading on – Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins) and Kathy Cotton (Gillian Taylforth) made some sort of truce in tonight's EastEnders. I wouldn't expect it to last, either. Let's face it, the two women haven't seen eye to eye for almost four decades. After all, Cindy is the one who tore Kathy's golden boy Ian's (Adam Woodyatt) life to shreds on more than one occasion. There was no joyful reunion between the pair when Cindy miraculously 'returned from the dead' in 2023, revealing that she had spent 25 years in witness protection. Kathy even warned Ian on numerous occasions that his apparently devoted partner would cheat on him again, and her suspicions went into fruition when Cindy hopped into bed with her former step-son Junior Knight (Micah Balfour). Lauren Branning (Jacqueline Jossa) decided to expose the affair on Christmas Day, also revealing that the mother-in-law from hell had been supplying her with drugs throughout her pregnancy. To cut a long story short, Kathy then picked up a snow shovel and whacked Cindy around the head with it. Brutal. The women have never seen eye to eye (Picture: BBC/Kieron McCarron) They were forced together in tonight's episode while caring for Louie (Picture: BBC/Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron) In a dramatic confrontation, Cindy learned her attacker's identity, shot Ian, and then pushed him towards a car that would go on to cause an explosion to ignite from within The Queen Vic pub. A shamed Cindy then fled the area, and upon her return, wanted revenge. She demanded that Kathy and Ian hand over their home and businesses to her, and eventually got her hands on The Prince Albert bar. But her revenge plan didn't stop there – she then played a video of Kathy kissing Harvey Monroe (Ross Boatman) in front of everyone. In tonight's episode, they came face to face once again during Lauren's hour of need. She had rushed her newborn baby Jimmy to the hospital, noticing that there was something strange with his eyesight. With Ian and Peter (Thomas Law) also heading there, youngster Louie (Jake McNally) had been left in Kathy's care. Lauren was told that her son is visually impaired (Picture: BBC/Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron) Follow Metro Soaps on WhatsApp and get all the latest spoilers first! Want to be the first to hear shocking EastEnders spoilers? Who's leaving Coronation Street? The latest gossip from Emmerdale? Join 10,000 soaps fans on Metro's WhatsApp Soaps community and get access to spoiler galleries, must-watch videos, and exclusive interviews. Simply click on this link, select 'Join Chat' and you're in! Don't forget to turn on notifications so you can see when we've just dropped the latest spoilers! As he tucked into his chicken nuggets, Cindy swanned in and demanded some time with her grandson. Kathy was uncertain, but given the circumstances, she wasn't in the mood to argue. The two then kept vigil, anxiously awaiting for an update. Ian then called and broke some heartbreaking news – Jimmy's eyes haven't formed properly, and he will be visually impaired for the rest of his life. Suddenly, the animosity disappeared between Cindy and Kathy. As tears filled their eyes, they leaned onto one another for support. But for Cindy, is this a guilty conscience? Was she responsible – indirectly – for causing Jimmy's blindness? If you've got a soap or TV story, video or pictures get in touch by emailing us soaps@ – we'd love to hear from you. Join the community by leaving a comment below and stay updated on all things soaps on our homepage. Arrow MORE: EastEnders fans 'work out' Max's new love interest upon his return – and it's not Linda or Stacey Arrow MORE: Walford local faces consequences of their actions as they're sacked in EastEnders Arrow MORE: All 61 EastEnders spoiler pictures for next week as diagnosis is confirmed
