Local News Summary & Weekly Hints

• Prosecution drops case against Thomas Weber
• Train derailed at cargo yard in Basel

• Switzerland's first electronic patient files introduced in Basel yesterday 
• Rheincenter in Weil am Rhein: Police officers find blood-covered man
• Allegations of racism against «Negro-Rhygass» carnival band

• Five years of success for dog beach at the Rhine
• Old Baslers remember flogging at school
• Biggest private beetle collection in the world officially handed over to the canton

• Witnesses sought after robbery at Greifengasse
• Hedgehogs and other small animals are suffering in the heat
• A tour through Basel's wedding frenzy

Alexander Girard collected folk art from all over the world. Over the years, he built up a large private archive in Santa Fe, which is now owned by Santa Fe’s Museum of International Folk Art. But what is actually meant by the term folk art? And why was Alexander Girard so fascinated by it? In an interview, his grandchildren Kori and Aleishall Girard answer this and other questions.

• Man attacked in Klingentalweglein: witnesses sought
• Federer against Gojowczyk or Sousa in Cincinnati
• Construction machine set on fire in Reinach